Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 192

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AVIATION.) LOLA JACKSON, ET AL. First Negro Flight Squadron. Press photograph 8 x 10 inches, with attached press blurb. Roosevelt Field, New York, 1935

Additional Details

Fine image of the first all Negro Flight Squadron, featuring Lola Jackson 'who expects to form an all-Negro group of women fliers for work as nurses. Also prominent in the image are Leonard Yates, Archie Smith, Charles Ware, Thomas Mills and other pioneer Negro aviators.