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The same photo was published in Aerial Age Weekly, July 19, 1915, p. 423. The photo, at the bottom of page 423, has a caption which states: "A group of enthusiasts taken at San Diego, Cal. From left to right, George Hallett, Raymund V. Morris, Katherine Stinson, Lieut. R.A.B. Sutton, Lieut. Jose Morrow, Lieut. Bown, Lieut. Walter R. Taliaferro." books.google.com/books?id=znbmAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front... There are some slight misidentifications in the Aerial Age caption of the photo - "Raymund V. Morris" is Raymond V. Morris, "Lieut. R.A.B. Sutton" is Redondo B. Sutton (who would come to later infamy in a 1920's swindling scheme), "Lieut. Jose Morrow" is Joseph C. Morrow, Jr., and "Lieut. Bown" is Thomas S. Bowen. Given the identity of those in the photo, this almost certainly was taken at the Curtiss Aviation School at North Island sometime in the first half of 1915.

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See www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/group-of-young-japa... for anoher picture of the amazing mustache of General Gwashi or Gaishi Nagaoka. and www.nagaoka-gaishi.jp/02gallery/

GAISHI NAGAOKA (1858-1933). Japanese air force commander and pioneer of aviation www.granger.com/results.asp?inline=true&image=0065758...

The signboard in Katherine's hands reads: 國民飛行會 (Kokumin Hikou-Kai). It can be translated as something like "National Flight Association”. I did some web search and found Nagaoka was the president of the association. Also found that the association published a book features her in 1916 titled: 「女流飛行界の現状とカザリン・ステインソン嬢」("Current State of Female Aviator World and Miss Katherine Stinson”). It can be read here at National Diet Library Digital Collections: dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/916990 (Written in Japanese)

nahcco : Thank you. What fun to see. There is a portrait a few pages in.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Stinson "Katherine Stinson (14 February 1891, in Alabama – July 8, 1977, in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an early female flier." See also www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/stinson_bio.html which mentions her performing (as a flyer) in Asia. and www.thearchivast.com/aviatrix/katherine-stinson-in-japan-... which says that she was in Japan in 1917.

We have seen her earlier in the Bain photostream, e.g., in May 1916

and Flickr user Blue Ruin 1 believes she was in Japan in December 1916. See

SDASM has an album that puts her in China in April 1917

SDASM also has a studio portrait:

Honolulu star-bulletin., December 14, 1916, 2:30 Edition, page 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014682/1916-12-14/ed-... indicates that she had arrived in Japan and would make her first flight "on Saturday." Honolulu star-bulletin., May 19, 1917, 3:30 Edition, Image 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014682/1917-05-19/ed-... indicates that she was in Honolulu on her return. So this photo was taken between mid-December 1916 and mid-May 1917.

In late June, 1917, in Chicago and just back from Asia, she talked about her experiences in Japan and China to a Topeka newspaper: "GIRL WHO MADE ORIENT GASP IS TO FLY IN TOPEKA ..."Miss Stinson has just returned to Chicago from a tour of China and Japan, where she won fourteen gold medals and made the Orientals look up to a woman for the first time in history. "The Japanese are really the most polite people in the world," said Miss Stinson, "and the Chinese were just lovely, but I'm certainly glad I'm an American. They make their wives walk ten paces in the rear on all public occasions, and I wouldn't walk behind any man. I want to walk beside him." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016014/1917-06-23/ed-...