[Wire service photograph]: Femaile Aviator Mrs. Lorenzo Oelze: "Commercial Air Field Operated by Woman..."

Los Angeles / New York: P & A Photos / (Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc., [1927].

Price: $225.00

Unbound. Vintage sepia-toned glossy gelatin silver photograph. 6.5" x 8.5" Wire service stamps on verso and paper caption snipe affixed. About fine with a little wear on the snipe. The photograph depicts Mrs. Lorenzo Oelze , recently widowed from aviator Carl Oelze, dressed in a flight suit, including high-heels, stepping into the cockpit of an airplane, facing the camera, smiling and waving. Photographer's caption printed slip affixed to verso) states: "Commercial Air Field Operated by Woman. Mrs. Lorenzo Oelze, widow of Carl Oelze, Naval Aviator and Founder of the San Diego Airport, who died a few months ago, will continue to operate the flying field her husband founded, she announced recently... Oelze attracted national attention a few months prior to his fatal illness when he successfully brought to Earth an airplane to which a parachute had been attached. Undated but the photograph appeared in the October, 1927 issue of *Popular Science Monthly,
*' included in the column, "Unique Activities of Unusual People."


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Item #516881 [Wire service photograph]: Femaile Aviator Mrs. Lorenzo Oelze: "Commercial Air Field Operated by Woman..." Mrs. Lorenzo OELZE.