c1911 Pioneer Aviation Scrapbook Wright Curtiss Bleriot Antoinette Farman Album For Sale

• A homemade pioneer aviation scrapbook from about 1910 to 1911, compiled while the first generation of flying machines was being built and raced.
• Roughly 170 mounted images across green board leaves: mostly period printed halftone clippings, plus six real photographic prints on cream mats with a black rule.
• Wright, Baby Wright, Curtiss, Bleriot, Antoinette, Henri and Maurice Farman, Deperdussin, Morane, Nieuport, Voisin, Santos-Dumont, Sommer, Goupy, Breguet and Valkyrie I, captioned by hand and typewriter.
• Includes a Curtiss biplane perched on the platform of a warship, the Le Danton with its constructor\'s lettering on the tail, the Heinrich monoplane, and propeller studies.
• Two printed color views of orange groves and palms with an aeroplane in the sky overhead.
• Condition: no covers and no title leaf, as found; green leaves sewn at the spine with worn, chipped outer edges and some toning; mounts sit flat with light age wear to a few clippings.

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