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The Women's Patriotic Aerial League offered a silver trophy (shown in the photograph here) and L1000 for a flight across the Atlantic. Victoria Woodhull (Mrs. Martin) put up the prize--is she one of the women pictured?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull She would have been 75+ in 1914. Corbis has a picture of her and her sister dated "1910s" www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/IH176261.html Both women in the front of the Corbis picture are much skinnier than the women on the left in this picture. An obituary, at www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0923.html , doe not include the "Patriotic" in the league's name.

Yeah, I think you're right. Ah well. Maybe her daughter Zula Woodhull is in there. ;) (I have four or five biographies of Woodhull on my office shelf right here, but only one of them has a later-life photo of VCW, and it wouldn't have been as late as the 1910s.)

Definitely looks like the same trophy as in this photo: books.google.com/books?id=qaIAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA691&l...

New York Times story from February 5, 1914, says that announcement of the $5,000 prize was made in London on February 4: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E5D71F3BE6... I recently read about Woodhull in Barbara Goldsmith's book, "Other Powers." It's an amazing story. Goldsmith, Barbara. Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998,

Whats with the bear?

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called School group portrait, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

This is great! Thank you for posting it.