In 1920s New York, This Woman Typist Became a Pioneering Aerial Photographer

Image caption: In a 1929 column, Amelia Earhart name-checked Keating as an example of a woman in aviation […] Illustration by Meilan Solly / Screenshot via American magazine. Article by Laura Mallonee. Smithsonian Magazine – June 3, 2022.

In 1920, 12 women held pilot’s licenses in the United States. Ten years later, that number had risen to more than 300. As female aviators took to the skies, performing daredevil stunts and smashing speed records, journalist Harry Goldberg heralded the start of a “feminine invasion” in aviation. “A new world of endeavor beckons to womankind,” he wrote in an article syndicated in various newspapers on August 21, 1927. But when Edith Eva Keating answered its call, she wasn’t piloting a plane; she was steering a camera. […]

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