Title: Gelatin silver photograph of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed HE Electra in flight over the water Author: Sunderland, Clyde Place: Oakland Publisher: Date: 1923- Description: Gelatin silver print, matte finish. 10¼x13¼. Clyde Sunderland's famed photograph of twin-engined plane flying through the clouds taken the day they took off on their epic flight around the world, which was to tragically end somewhere in the Pacific. Clyde Sunderland (1900-1989) was a pioneering aerial photographer, operating out of his home base of Oakland, California beginning in the 1920’s. He was commissioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt to write a textbook on aerial photography and train naval photographers in 1939 and he taught at Pensacola until the end of the war. This photograph came out of his estate. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine condition. Item number: 189147
Title: Gelatin silver photograph of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed HE Electra in flight over the water Author: Sunderland, Clyde Place: Oakland Publisher: Date: 1923- Description: Gelatin silver print, matte finish. 10¼x13¼. Clyde Sunderland's famed photograph of twin-engined plane flying through the clouds taken the day they took off on their epic flight around the world, which was to tragically end somewhere in the Pacific. Clyde Sunderland (1900-1989) was a pioneering aerial photographer, operating out of his home base of Oakland, California beginning in the 1920’s. He was commissioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt to write a textbook on aerial photography and train naval photographers in 1939 and he taught at Pensacola until the end of the war. This photograph came out of his estate. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine condition. Item number: 189147
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