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Document 177298

LAURA INGALLS
Record-holding aviatrix and convicted disseminator of Nazi propaganda.
Philatelic Envelope signed: "Laura Ingalls", 6½x3½. Commemorating Ingalls' arrival in Miami, 8-cent airmail stamp affixed at upper right, postmarked Miami Springs, Florida, April 23, 1934. Portion of newspaper article affixed at left: "Laura Ingalls/To Reach Miami/Airport Today/Noted Aviatrix Ends Solo/Flight Over South Amer-/ica, West Indies/Laura Ingalls, New York aviatrix, will land on American soil for the first time since March 8...." Ingalls was the first woman pilot to fly east-west nonstop coast to coast. An isolationist and speaker at America First rallies, she was jailed by the FBI in Washington shortly after Pearl Harbor for being on Germany's payroll since 1941 and failing to register as a foreign agent. She was convicted in 1942. Lightly creased. Soiled at blank margins, else fine condition.

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