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[biplane?] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• TVL1970 said:

  Aviatrix Katherine Stinson in front of her Curtiss-Stinson Special (aka "Curtiss Special"), a single-seat variant of the Curtiss JN-4, powered by a Curtiss OXX-6 150 HP V-8 engine. Stinson flew the aircraft to raise funds for the Red Cross. On July 9, 1918, Stinson would carry a mailbag aboard this aircraft "containing 259 letters from Calgary to Edmonton in western Canada’s first air mail delivery." See: www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/article... Here's another photo of Stinson and the aircraft in the LoC Photostream:

• Karen (LOC P&P) said:

  TVL1970: Thank you for identifying the woman in this photograph. We'll add her name and information about her to the record next time we update.

• Art Siegel said:

  This probably goes with the other photos of the Harkness Handicap auto race at Sheepshead Bay. "MISS STINSON HAS ENDED AIR FLIGHT New York. June 1 [1918]. Miss Katherine Stinson, leaving Binghamton at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon finished the last lap of her aerial mail carrying flight from Chicago to New York when she landed at Sheepshead Bay about five o'clock, just before the start of the Harkness handicap automobile race." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84031081/1918-06-02/ed-...