VTG 1912 Hotel Clarendon, Daytona Beach, Ruth Law, Biplane RPPC Long Postcard

Description

VTG. original silver gelatin real photo panoramic postcard.
"Hotel Clarendon Clarendon Airship Photo by LeSesne." Depicting the hotel with the
pusher biplane in front of it on
the sand with people and cars
surrounding it. Ruth Law was
the pilot.
Ruth Law enrolled in Burgess
Flying School in Boston in late
June of 1912 and made her first
solo flight on August 1st. After
receiving her pilot's license she
took a job with the Clarendon
Hotel for the Winter of 1912. There she made daily exhibition flights and carried tourists for
brief flights. By the summer of 1913 she had her own plane and signed up for the same kind of
employment at a Newport Rhode Island resort. The photographer, Richard LeSesne, was
mainly noted for his photography of land speed record attempts on Daytona Beach, Florida, in
the 1920s and 1930s. 9 7/8" x 3 7/8". Overall nice unsent condition, with slight crease in upper left corner and 2 pinholes in windows of the hotel indicating where the person who had the picture stayed.