Lady Mary Heath and William Brock, National Air Races, Cleveland, Ohio, 1929

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Artifact Overview

Irish pilot Mary, Lady Heath, was a champion athlete before earning her commercial pilot's license in 1927 -- the first woman in Ireland or Great Britain to do so. In 1928 she made headlines flying solo from Cape Town, South Africa, to London. Lady Heath never fully recovered from a crash she suffered at the 1929 National Air Races in Cleveland.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

29 August 1929

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

68.160.52

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Harry Schlee

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 10 in
Width: 8 in