From the state archives description: "Mrs. Verna Merritt Garcia of Miami, Fla., is shown in this Pan American World Airways' famed flying boats at its Dinner Key marine base for her first flight to Nassau on New Year's Day, 1930. By contrast, for her second flight 37 years later, she boarded a 125-passenger jet Clipper that zipped her across the Gulf Stream at 550 miles an hour. Others in this early photo are identified as Miss Betty Weeks and "the Foster family.""