Although Moisant recovered from her injuries, she gave up flying, and moved to the family plantation in San Salvador. Before World War I, when airplanes were known as flying machines, Matilde Moisant thrilled the American people with her exploits in the air. Less than two months later, her friend Harriet Quimby was killed when she fell from her plane. Moisant stopped flying on Apin Wichita Falls, Texas when her plane crashed (the same day that the Titanic sank). In September 1911, she flew in the air show at Nassau Boulevard airfield in Garden City, New York and, while competing against Hélène Dutrieu, Moisant broke the women’s altitude world record and won the Rodman-Wanamaker trophy by flying to. She pursued a career in exhibition flying. In 1911, a few weeks after her friend Harriet Quimby received her pilot’s certificate, Matilde Moisant became the second woman pilot certified by the Aero Club of America. Moisant learned to fly at Alfred’s Moisant Aviation School on Long Island, New York. In 1880, the family was living in Manteno, Illinois and her father was working as a farmer. Her siblings include George, John, Annie M., Alfred, Louisa J. Moisant was born in Earl Park, Indiana to Médore Moisant and Joséphine Fortier. Matilde Moisant died in 1964 in Glendale, California, aged 85, and was interred in the Portal of Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
1964 Burial In Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.1930 US Census in La Crescenta, California.1920 US Census in Los Angeles, California.1911 Won Rodman-Wanamaker altitude trophy.1880 Living in Manteno, Kankakee, Illinois.She was the second woman in the United States to get a pilot’s license. Moisant (Septem– February 5, 1964) was an American pioneer aviator. Experience reading cursive handwriting and familiarity with 19th century (or prior) handwriting and conventions/abbreviations may be useful, as well as knowledge of scientific terminology, astrophysics data, or linguistics.Matilde Moisant (left) and ] Subject Area Expertise/Special Skills: knowledge of a specific language and access to a keyboard with the characters in that language may be required for certain projects. Language: foreign languages that use non-Roman characters (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Greek/Cyrillic, Native American and Indigenous languages, etc.) and Englishįormat: audio recordings, columned data/tables, manuscripts, letters, diaries, notes, currency sheets, coins
Level 5 - ADVANCEDĬontent: handwritten materials in cursive (from the 19th century or earlier) or in a non-Roman script language, audio recordings that are difficult to hear or are not in English, specialty materials/projects such as numismatics projects and the Project Phaedra notebooks A general knowledge or familiarity with scientific terminology. Subject Area Expertise/Special Skills: some knowledge of non-English Roman-character/script languages and diacritics may be useful, as well as experience reading cursive handwriting. Language: English and/or other languages that use Roman script but may require the use of diacritics (French, Spanish, German, Italian, etc.)įormat: audio recordings, letters, diaries, notes and other written materials, projects with templated fields and special instructions Subject Area Expertise/Special Skills: experience reading cursive writing may be useful Level 4Ĭontent: handwritten materials, primarily in cursive or somewhat difficult to read (predominantly from the 19th and 20th centuries) , audio recordings that are relatively easy to hear/decipher, and scientific materials Subject Area Expertise/Special Skills: none required Level 3 - INTERMEDIATEĬontent: typed and handwritten materials in cursive or printįormat: newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, letters/diaries/notes that may include annotations or margin notes Subject Area Expertise/Special Skills: none required Level 2Ĭontent: mostly typed, handwritten in print, or otherwise very clearly written/readableįormat: memorabilia, advertisements, image captions, telegrams, diaries, letters, notes Format: letters, diaries, flyers, pamphlets, and one-page documents