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Congresswoman Takes to Air For Survey – Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Congresswoman from the fourth Florida District… [caption title]
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News photo of Democratic U.S. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, the first woman elected to Congress from Florida and later the first female American ambassador. A pioneering silent filmmaker, Owen represented Florida’s fourth district for two terms, 1929–1933, and served as U.S. Envoy to Denmark, 1933–1936.
Owen is shown at an Orlando airfield posing in front of a two-seater airplane, preparing to embark to Winter Haven on an air survey. She sports an Orlando Air College aviator hat, flanked by Lieut. E.C. Nilson, pilot, and R.B. Bossier, publisher of the Orlando Reporter-Star newspaper.
Description: Congresswoman Takes to Air For Survey – Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Congresswoman from the fourth Florida District… [caption title]
Atlanta: Associated Press, [1929]. 6 x 8 inches; tipped on photo/credit caption sheet and Associated Press rubber stamp on verso. Near fine.
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