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Lot 812

Aviation Pioneers and the Airplanes Photo Archive. Circa 19...

Estimate: $250 - $350

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Aviation Pioneers and the Airplanes Photo Archive. Circa 1907-20s. Over 40 photographs of aviation pioneers and airplanes, including Major Salinas Carranza, Mexican aviation pioneer and founder of Mexico air force, Bert Mix with ?Hummer? midget airplane, Caprioni Ca5 bomber, Wichatunk Polo Ground airfield, Nieuport Monoplane, Bernard Henri de Romanet in Vickers machine gun equipped plane, ?Queen of the Air? with Chas. Levine, first transatlantic passenger, Jules Vedrine in Paris-Madrid 1911 race, bomb dropping from airplane circa 1911,1912 Military Breguet starting, Nieuport at the French military tests, 1919 airplane that carried Lloyd George to WWI Peace Conference, Augustus Post in Voisin bomber, Wright Bellanca airplane setting 51 hours in air record, WWI British squadron in Italy, and others. Several mounted on 9 x 7? cards. Good.