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runscottI recently won a 1910-15 photo album with photographs of airplanes, including one in mid-air. The photos were taken in Washington State, but the seller described as follows:
Part of the seller's wishful description: "...the one shot of it in the air reads under it, "Mrs.Bryant Aloft/state fair grounds 1912" (is it the KITTY HAWK?..I think one of the Wrights were in this area around those years)..."
Now why in the world would this fellow who thought "Kitty Hawk" was the name of an airplane, believe one of the Wright Brothers was flying airplanes in Washington State in 1912? Turns out that Mrs. Bryant was the first woman to ever fly in the Pacific Northwest, has a page on the Smithsonian web-site, and this photo album contains actual photos of her, her airplane, and one picture of the plane in the air on what might be her first flight.