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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CHARLES HUBBARD WRIGHT (1870-1939) THE MAY CENTURY. 1897. 20 3/4x12 inches, 52 3/4x30 1/2 cm. Condition A- / B+: tears at bottom edge; creases in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds. Paper. Wright was a New York City based painter and illustrator who designed over 30 posters for the New York Herald newspaper. Although advertising a monthly magazine, this can also be viewed as an early American aviation poster. It depicts Lieutenant Hugh Wise, the first American (and third person in the world) to be lifted airborne by kites from Governors Island on January 22, 1897. DFP-I 502, l'Histoire de l'Aviation p. 12, Virgina p. 100, Crystal Palace 785.
