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Lot of approximately 302 items. A large collection of photographs, catalogs, and plane pamphlets, many relating to the Curtiss-Wright Company ranging in dates from 1929 until the 1940s. The lot includes: 124 photographs featuring the manufacturing process of several planes including inspection photographs of the Curtiss B-20, Curtiss Condor #3, Lockhead Vega Crossely Radio, 20 Passenger Curtiss Condor Transport, 80-A Nacelle, the 1929 dedication of the Williamsport Airport, and Secretary Adams of the Navy's review of Naval airplane carriers at the Naval Air Station in Washington, plus many more. Most photographs are 10 x 8 in. but range in size. 3 pamphlets: War Planes of All Nations by John B. Walker with 60 illustrations of planes from the first and second World War. American Airplanes by John B. Walker featuring 1956 illustrations and information about all the United States' major planes. Silver Age Flying: The Sport that Challenges the Skill and Imagination of all Ages by the Aero Model Company, 1929. A collection of 33 signed letters from various airports, flight school owners, and plane building companies from 1929 through 1930. A large amount of miscellaneous papers with supplementary information to the photos and flight racing. 6 copies of Profile Publications of several Curtis planes such as the Strike, SOC Seagull, P-40 Tomahawk, The Consolidated PBY Catalina, the Hawk 75, and The Douglass SBD Dautless. 3 Issues of the Aircraft Journal from March 8th and 15th as well as the May 24th edition from 1919. A collection of papers from the Department of Commerce reporting the cost of air travel and the laws of flight in 1928. A binder of 50 flight certificates, souvenir coupons, Inman flying circus ticket, flying service tickets, tickets from the National Air Races from 1929-1939, and three business cards of flight instructors accompanied by a photograph of them and their planes. A photo album containing 26 images of planes in many global locations, most interestingly a photograph of an upside down plane on the snowy Alaskan ground, possibly taken in 1926. 4 hand tinted images of several planes, one captioned on the recto Hanger at Scott AFB Photo Taken in 1936. 3 Curtis Fly Leaf pamphlets from 1936, 1937, and 1938. At a young age, Glenn Curtiss developed an interest in bicycles, like other aviation pioneers such as the Wright Brothers. In the early 1900s, he started a business designing, building, and repairing bicycles. Eventually, he started adding motors to the bicycles, therefore converting them to motorcycles. He even began racing them. As a result of Curtiss' accomplishments with building and racing motorcycles, balloonist Thomas Scott Baldwin asked him to power his airship, the California Arrow, with a Curtiss engine. Baldwin also motivated Curtiss to become more involved with aviation. In 1906, he offered to sell the Wright Brothers one of his engines, but they declined. The following year, Curtiss joined the Aerial Experiment Association, or AEA, which was founded by Alexander Graham Bell He made great strides in aircraft experimentation while working with Bell and other members of the AEA, including winning the first leg of the Scientific American trophy in 1908 for flying a plane called the June Bug a distance of 5,090 feet across Pleasant Valley in Hammondsport. When the AEA disbanded in 1909, Curtiss began working on his own, but he had been given the AEA's aircraft designs and patents. In 1909, Curtiss sold his plane called the Gold Bug, or Curtiss No. 1, to the New York Aero Club for $5000. The sale of Curtiss' new plane angered the Wright Brothers and triggered a patent battle that would not end until 1914 when the U.S. Government pressured both the Wright and Curtiss companies to resolve their differences in order to meet the aviation needs of the war. They eventually resolved their dispute by merging their companies in 1929. Twelve Wright and Curtiss affiliated companies merged. The merger brought a tot