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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
LINDBERGH, EARHART & ELDER (AVIATION) A group of approximately 28 photographs of Charles Lindbergh, the first pilot to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. Including portraits of Lindbergh inside the Spirit of St. Louis, wearing his flight suit and helmet, working on the airplane, and with his bride (and fellow aviator) Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Silver prints, most ferrotyped, the images measuring 4 1/2x6 to 9 3/4x7 1/2 inches (11.4x15.2 to 24.8x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, approximately 17 with extensive period retouching, on recto, and most with various hand stamps, written notations, and typed captions, on verso. 1920s-40s
WITH--A group of 95 photographs of female aviators, comprising 70 of Amelia Earhart, first female aviator to make a transatlantic flight and 20 photographs of Ruth Elder, the "Miss America of Aviation." With images of Earhart in her flight suit, with her husband and stepson, posing in planes, and receiving awards, in addition to images of her mother and pictures of Elder at public events. Silver prints, the images measuring 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, most with slugs or typed captions mounted recto/verso and handwritten captions, in pencil, on verso. 1930s.
