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Anne and Charles Lindbergh made headlines around the world with their 1931 arctic flight to Asia from New York. One of these headlines was "Mrs. Charles A Lindbergh in the Costume of Old Japan. The First Woman to Cross the Pacific by Airplane Entering the Home of Lieut. Gen. Gaishi Nagaoka, Nippon's "Grand Master of Aviation" at a Tokyo Reception of Her and Her Famous Husband." #WomenInAviation Mid-Week Pictorial magazine cover, September 19, 1931 SFO Museum Collection Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family 2012.149.1087 This image was posted on May 11, 2016.