1965 Press Photo Angle Derby Air Race for Women checking their lunch boxes

Isobel Blodgett of Cambridge, Mass., Thelma Cishop of La Jolla, California, and Edna Whyte of Fort Worth, Texas, from left, check contents of box lunches they will eat on flight from Fairfield to Nassau, the Bahamas, in 15th annual Angel Derby air race for women. Thirty-seven light planes took off this morning on the 1600 mile course by way of Dallas airport in Washington, Greensboro, NC., Macon, GA., Daytona Beach or Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Nassau.

Photo is dated 1965.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.