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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
PLUS GASTON TISSANDIER'S HOT AIR BALLOONS (EARLY AVIATION) A selection of 10 press photographs documenting the early decades of aviation, including one Wright Brothers photograph. The group features a Wright Brothers image depicting the first flight at Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. Also including a squadron of English airplanes waiting to join the Allied offensive in Europe in 1916, a German glider, William Atwood achieving an altitude of more than 200 feet in his glider, San Diego (1929), an experimental design called a Glider Sail Plane (1929), early airmail delivery that included dropping the mail via a rope (1930), a plane crash, and more. Silver prints, many with retouching and editorial markings, the images measuring 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), one mounted, some sheets slightly larger, most with captions and dates in pencil and ink and press and/or date stamps, and some with small press clippings, and the Wright Brothers image with extensive and numerous captions, clippings, and date stamps. 1903-30; the Wright Brothers printed 1933
WITH--A selection of four photographs, all of which appear to relate to the flight pursuits of Gaston & Albert Tissandier, including an image of their electrically powered dirigible and a signed cabinet card portrait of Gaston Tissandier. The other two images depict inflated hot air balloons. Albumen prints, the images measuring 4 5/8x6 1/2 inches (11.7x16.5 cm.), and slightly smaller, the mounts 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), and slightly smaller, the cabinet card apparently signed and inscribed by Gaston. 1880s
Provenance: The Estate of Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia
