Wightman, Ruth, 1897-1939
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Don Brown Early Pacific Northwest Aviation Photograph Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2023-06-26
Content Description
The Don Brown Early Pacific Northwest Aviation Photograph Collection is a small collection of visual materials collected by Brown that feature various aviation personalities and aviation scenes in the Pacific Northwest region during the early 20th century. The main individuals represented are Vern C. Gorst, as well as two female aviators, Florence Seidell and Ruth Wightman. Aviation scenes includes images of crowds watching planes in flight, planes in flight over water, planes parked in...
Dates:
circa 1910s-1920s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Ralph A. Newcomb Early California Aviation Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2023-08-30
Overview
Ralph A. Newcomb worked as an aviator and mechanic in the early 1900s, during the pioneering days of aviation in California. The collection dates from 1910 to 2006 and is predominantly comprised of photographic materials and a small number of textual documents collected by Newcomb during his time in the field of aviation.
Dates:
1910-1919, 2005-2006; Majority of material found within 1911-1919
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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- Subject
- Aerial photography 1
- Air mail service 1
- Airships 1
- Automobiles 1
- Biplanes 1
- Coos River (Or.) 1
- Coquille Valley (Or.) 1
- Flight schools 1
- France 1
- Gliders (Aeronautics) 1
- Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Los Gatos (Calif.) 1
- North Bend (Or.) 1
- Oregon 1
- Palo Corona Ranch 1
- Panama Canal (Panama) 1
- Panama, Isthmus of (Panama) 1
- Pasco (Wash.) 1
- Racetracks (Automobile racing) 1
- San Diego (Calif.) 1
- Seaplanes 1
- Transcontinental flights 1
- Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
- Washington (State) 1
- Women in aeronautics 1
- Wright (Co) Model B 1
- glass plate negatives 1
- lantern slides 1
- negatives (photographs) 1
- postcards 1 + ∧ less
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