Katherine Stinson with Barney Oldfield at Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles, California, November 29, 1917
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Artifact Overview
Two celebrity daredevils meet in this 1917 photo. Barney Oldfield raced bicycles before moving to automobiles in 1902. He traveled the country staging exhibition races for enthusiastic crowds. Katherine Stinson earned her pilot's license at age 21 and began exhibition flying in 1913. The petite Stinson performed difficult stunts with ease and charmed the press who dubbed her the "Flying Schoolgirl."
Artifact Details
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
29 November 1917
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2009.103.N.223.10
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 1 in
Width: 1.5 in
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SetKatherine Stinson, the “Flying Schoolgirl”
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Petite Katherine Stinson looked younger than her 21 years when she earned her pilot's license in 1912. The press dubbed her the "Flying Schoolgirl." But Stinson was among the best exhibition flyers of the pre-World War I era. The "tractor" mentioned in the caption is her airplane. Planes with propellers in front of their engines are called tractors, as opposed to rear-propeller pushers.