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These must be the participants of the 1929 Women´s Air Derby.

From left to right: Louise Thaden, Bobbi Trout, Patty Willis, Marvel Crosson, Blanche Noyes, Vera Dawn Walker, Amelia Earhart, Marjorie Crawford, Ruth Elder, Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes. Here's a link to contemporaneous British Pathe / Gaumont newsreel footage of this event: YouTube: British Pathé: TRANSPORT: Aviation: Female pilots (1929) From the linked newsreel footage, we can also see the registration on the rudder of the aircraft, [NC]229K. NC229K was a deHavilland DH.60 Gipsy Moth (c/n 41).

the Ninety-Nines club

March 3, 1913.

This looks like it's another photo of German actress Hedwig Reicher dressed as Columbia, doubly misidentified by Bain as Frances F. Noyes dressed as Liberty. Edit: LOC has a photo from this event which is captioned "Liberty and Her Attendants" (link to the large .jpg version, as I'm unable to make a functional link to the photo's info page.) The woman in the dark toga must be Florence F. Noyes, though she is not identified by name on the info page. For comparison, this web page features a photo of Hedwig Reicher portraying Salome in a 1908 German production of the Oscar Wilde play.

Thanks for the information. You are correct about the misidentification of the subject. Take a look at this similar image from Bain News Service: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00032 . It also identifies the subject as Hedwig Reicher posing as Columbia during a suffrage pageant at the March 3, 1913 suffrage march in Washington, D.C. According to the information with this image, Florence F. Noyes may be one of the background figures in veils. We will update the source data and reload the description.

This image has been included in the Indicommons.org post Women across the Commons, prior to International Women's Day.

Made a backpack from this one:

Here is Ms. Noyes dressed as Lady Liberty in another LOC photo: www.loc.gov/shop/index.php?action=cCatalog.showItem&c...

I think this must be an early photo of mystery writer Frances Noyes Hart. The Noyes family owned the Washington Star, so her photo showing up in a newspaper even before she published any of her books would not be surprising.

In regard to captainslack's comment above: the LOC photo linked there does not depict Frances Noyes, but dancer Florence Fleming Noyes.

Thanks for pointing out potential connections to other Library of Congress photographs -- and potential identity confusions! If you want to see even more of the story on identity confusions (not Florence Noyes and not Lady Liberty according to information researchers gave us), see the image and revised title in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00032

The photo of Hedwig Reicher in costume as Columbia is all over the Internet, identified as Florence F. Noyes as Liberty. Everybody must be relying on the misleading Bain caption. The LOC does have a decent photo of Florence Fleming Noyes, but the photo with Hedwig Reichert isn't big enough, even in its TIFF version, to be able to make a comparison between the picture of Ms. Noyes and the background figures in the Reichert photo to determine if she is among them. The LOC also has another photo of Frances Noyes, but it is in the Arnold Genthe collection which has not been made available online in large versions. From the thumbnail (use the terms "Noyes, Miss" on the Prints & Photographs search page), it appears to be the same woman at the wheel of the car in the photo above, though somewhat gussied up. It occurs to me that, since Frances Noyes served as an ambulance driver during WWI (her first published book was about her war experiences- available for download in several formats here at the Internet Archive), the photo above may depict her at about that time- perhaps 1917-1918. The right-hand-drive car suggests that the photograph might have been taken in England.