Ruth Law, who received her pilot's license in 1912, was an accomplished flyer who had set the American nonstop cross-country record for men and women and the world nonstop cross-country for women in November 1916, while flying from Chicago to New York.

Not allowed to fly combat missions in World War I, she piloted airplanes to promote the sale of war bonds and stimulate reenlistments. Law refused to accept the U.S. War Department's rejection, eventually earning the right to wear the uniform of a noncommissioned Army officer while flying on recruiting tours for the military. After the War, she formed Ruth Law's Flying Circus. Along with a pair of pilots, she raced cars and flew through fireworks at county fairs.

For her many aviation achievements she received the Glenn H. Curtiss Medal and the Aero Club of America Medal. She died in 1970.

Medium : 1 photographic print

Created/Published : Herbert Photos, New York. 1916

Notes : Probably taken after her record breaking long-distance flight from Chicago to Hornell, N.Y.

Housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.

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