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Auction archive: Lot number 11

Album of approximately 275 original snapshot photographs of aviators and aeronautical training during World War I

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 11

Album of approximately 275 original snapshot photographs of aviators and aeronautical training during World War I

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Title: Album of approximately 275 original snapshot photographs of aviators and aeronautical training during World War I Author: ** Place: Canada, Texas, etc. Publisher: Date: c.1916-1918 Description: Photographs are various sizes, corner-mounted or glued to black album leaves, many with captions in white ink on the leaves. 25.5x32 cm. (10x12½"), flexible morocco. Marvelous group of photographs apparently of an Australian air unit training in Canada and Texas ("Richard W. Kellett, Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia" written on the inside of the album cover), with many of the photographs recording the inevitable crashes, others show planes both in flight and on the ground, aerial shots taken from the air, etc. There are also the camps, numerous fliers and other personnel, and towards the end some girlfriends and non-military activities. Lot Amendments Condition: Most of the photographs are in very good or better condition. Item number: 203282

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
22 Sep 2011
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Album of approximately 275 original snapshot photographs of aviators and aeronautical training during World War I Author: ** Place: Canada, Texas, etc. Publisher: Date: c.1916-1918 Description: Photographs are various sizes, corner-mounted or glued to black album leaves, many with captions in white ink on the leaves. 25.5x32 cm. (10x12½"), flexible morocco. Marvelous group of photographs apparently of an Australian air unit training in Canada and Texas ("Richard W. Kellett, Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia" written on the inside of the album cover), with many of the photographs recording the inevitable crashes, others show planes both in flight and on the ground, aerial shots taken from the air, etc. There are also the camps, numerous fliers and other personnel, and towards the end some girlfriends and non-military activities. Lot Amendments Condition: Most of the photographs are in very good or better condition. Item number: 203282

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
22 Sep 2011
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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