Tiny Broadwick Papers, 1902-1975

BleUloe at A- #« enb 6Unn«Tlpt* Blatr flfpartmrnt of Arrbiora nnb fitetorg Balrlgf). Norll) Carolina Collection: TINY BROADWICK PAPERS i i! North Carolina; California lj f 1902-1908, 1914-1919, 1934, 1953, 1974-1975 il Pf! 1567.1 ' . il • _ . Physical Description: ca. 200 items; newspaper clippings, broadsides, calling cards, photographs, magazine articles, advertisements. ii Acquisition: Scrapbook transferred from Museum of History, December 18, 1974. ^Donated to Museum by Tiny Broadwick [Mrs. Georgia Brown] of, San Diego, |California, a native of Henderson, N. C. (пчу ms) Description: This scrapbook belonged to Mrs. Maud Broadwick, whose name was stamped on the cover, the wife and partner of Charles Broadwick,1. pioneer balloonist and inventor, and foster father of Tiny Broadwick: Because of the disarray and fragility of the newspaper clippings, which consi.tuted most of the material, these have been laminated and arranged chronologically in folders and placed in a fiberdex box. ; •I Georgia Ann Thompson of Henderson, N. C. joined the "Broadwicks !. World Famous Aeronauts" in 1908 after witnessing the parachute descension from a hot air balloon at the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh. In 1913 she became the first woman to jump from an airplane, which was piloted by Glen L. Martin. When she retired from parachuting in 1922, she had completed over 1,000 jumps. One of her early parachutes hangs in the Smithsonian Institution; another is in the Museum of History in Raleigh. For biographical information see folder in collection containing articles from The State magazine (January, 1975), The News and Observer (November 25, 1974), Life (December 7, 1953). | John Murray, known as Charles Broadwick, who died in 1934, at timps was billed professionally with his wife Maud as Professor Lola and Mille Therese, the French Aeronauts. In the collection are newspaper clippings and broadsides, 1904-1908, advertising or reporting the balloon and | parachute performances and accidents of the Broadwicks as they appeared at county fairs and city parks in New Orleans, Kansas City, Savannah, Clarkesville (Tenn.), Miami, Augusta (Ga.) , Dallas and Jacksonville, (Fla.), etc. The clippings of 1914-1919 concern Broadwick's invention of a I | I I ' ( I