mrswaldopeirce

Mrs. Waldo Pierce (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• B-59 said:

  This photo was used in The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, September 03, 1916, SECTION FIVE, Image 62 with the caption: "Mrs. Waldo Pierce has qualified as an air pilot and is now the only woman in the United States qualified in that respect to join the Army flying corps. That is her ambition. Mrs. Pierce has a husband who is working with the American Ambulance in France. As Dorothy Rice she was for years a motorcyclist and was frequently in the courts for speeding." (oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1916-09-03/ed-1/se...)

• B-59 said:

  The correct name of her husband was Waldo PEIRCE; he was an American painter (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_Peirce). They married in 1912 and divorced in 1917, see - The evening world., September 21, 1912, Final Edition, Page 2, with photo, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1912-09-21/ed-... - NYT, October 16, 1917, query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9804E2D7113BE0... See also - www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/MileHigh-Sperry-Peirce.htm (funny story about her airplane crash while making love) - tamilewisbrown.com/intrepid-dorothy-rice-peirce/ Dorothy Rice was the daughter of Isaac Leopold Rice, inventor, chess patron and author (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Rice), she was born in 1889 and died in 1960.

• Art Siegel said:

  The New York Times account of that November, 1916 crash seems to have left out a few details that later came to light.. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9804E0DD123DEF...

• swanq said:

  Art Siegel The NYT article you cite mentions that she had a plane at Mineola -- which potentially connects this picture to the neighboring ones of other aviators.

• Richard Norton said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Rice_Sims