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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-...

Thanks so much for identifying the photograph. We will add it to the record!

NYT of May 6, 1916 select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00E13F93D5F1373... "Miss Katherine Stinson of San Antonio, Texas, and Dario Resta of London will meet in the first heat of the aeroplane versus automobile race, known as the "earth and air match," at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway this afternoon." Miss Stinson is the pilot. Resta is driving the car.

Stinson won (The sun., May 07, 1916, Page 7, col. 2 & 3)

Resta, taken obviously at the same event:

Thanks fo ryour research swanq. And thanks for connecting the images. We'll add some of the information to all of the records the next time we update. There are other images of Katherine Stinson in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

Katherine Stinson:

See comments for for more on Katherine Stinson, her flying, and her trip to Japan, Dec 1916 - May 1917.