(AVIATION) Panoramic photo of the mass parachute jumpers at

Sale 2646 - Lot 56

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(AVIATION.) Panoramic photo of the mass parachute jumpers at the 1938 National Air Races. Photograph, 8 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches to sight, titled in negative "Mass Parachute Jump, National Air Races," signed and dated by photographer William H. Figary in the negative; no visible wear. Not examined out of frame. Cleveland, OH, 3 September 1938

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35 men and 3 women are posed in front of a grandstand, almost all of them more or less ready for action: either wearing a flight suit, goggles, or a parachute, or with the parachute laid at their feet. One young man dressed in black has really entered the spirit of the thing, already wearing a heavy bandage just above his eye. All of the jumpers survived, but Eddie Szula of Elgin, IL suffered serious injuries when his chute failed to open properly.