A collection of 115 photographic prints and 149 negatives of early Los Angeles aviation, including several of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and other pioneering pilots at the first National Air Meet held in Los Angeles in September of 1928 at Mines Field (now the location of the Los Angeles International Airport). The collection also includes two scrapbooks that cover the National Air Races held between 1935 and 1947 -- along with correspondence between Arthur Ronnie--the collector of the material--and various magazine editors regarding potential use of his collected photographs in publications. Most of the photographic prints in the collection relate to the 1928 National Air Races. However, the negatives in the collection cover a broader range of aviation events and dates, including the Los Angeles stop of the Graf Zeppelin's 1929 round-the-world flight, Charles Lindbergh and actor Will Rogers on a Maddux airlines flight, and events relating to the Los Angeles Examiner's Rickenbacker Club.

A few of the photographs in the collection are inscribed by people featured in the photographs "to Art Ronnie." Among these is a group photograph taken in front of an airplane hangar that pictures actress Mary Pickford holding a large bouquet of roses and standing next to Charles Lindbergh. The photograph is signed by Pickford. Two other photographs of the airplane Yankee Doodle are signed by Captain Art Goebel, who piloted the airplane to west-east and east-west speed records. There is also a group portrait of the "three musketeers" army aerobatic team, which included Lindbergh, Lt. J. A. Woodring, and Lt. W. L. Cornelius. Lastly, the collection holds four copies of a caption sheet that lists descriptions for a portion of the images. The caption sheet is accompanied by a corresponding set of small photo reproductions, which are numbered according to the caption sheet's sequence.