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- Lieutenant Lester J. Maitland, 2nd Place Winner, Pulitzer Air Race, October 14, 1922 - Air races provided pilots and manufacturers with an opportunity to test new technologies and show them off to enthusiastic audiences. The annual National Air Races were the premier competition in the United States from the 1920s through the 1940s. Publisher Ralph Pulitzer sponsored the event's top prize. Russell Maughan won the 1922 contest held near Mount Clemens, Michigan.
- October 14, 1922
- Collections - Artifact
Lieutenant Lester J. Maitland, 2nd Place Winner, Pulitzer Air Race, October 14, 1922
Air races provided pilots and manufacturers with an opportunity to test new technologies and show them off to enthusiastic audiences. The annual National Air Races were the premier competition in the United States from the 1920s through the 1940s. Publisher Ralph Pulitzer sponsored the event's top prize. Russell Maughan won the 1922 contest held near Mount Clemens, Michigan.
- Scrapbook of Aviation Photographs and Articles, circa 1928 - Kenneth Henderson compiled this scrapbook around 1928. It included photographs and newspaper clippings related to some of the top pilots and airplanes of the day. William Brock, Richard Byrd, Anthony Fokker, Charles Lindbergh, and Edward Schlee were among the aviators Henderson documented.
- circa 1928
- Collections - Artifact
Scrapbook of Aviation Photographs and Articles, circa 1928
Kenneth Henderson compiled this scrapbook around 1928. It included photographs and newspaper clippings related to some of the top pilots and airplanes of the day. William Brock, Richard Byrd, Anthony Fokker, Charles Lindbergh, and Edward Schlee were among the aviators Henderson documented.