Original 1947 AP Wire Photo featuring aviator Jane Page of Wilmette, Illinois, smiling from the cockpit of her twin-engine Lockheed F6G at Chicago's Orchard Airport as she prepared to compete in the 1947 Bendix Coast-to-Coast Air Race. Mounted on black archival paper with the original wire caption separately mounted below the photograph. Measures approximately 8⅛ x 7½ inches overall. Shows age-related surface wear, light corner wear, and minor handling wear consistent with age. From the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
