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Aeronautical Pioneers and Airplanes Photo Collection. Circa 1910-30. 60 photographs of aviation pioneers and airplanes, including Samuel P. Langley in experimental hydroplane, Granville Pollock, Capt. Pierre Clavenad, naval and military balloonists, first woman parachutist Lucien Cayat de Castella with pilot before her first jump in 1913, Orville Wright’s last photo, piloting hydroplane with Oscar Brindley, Lt. Henry H. Hoyt, Wright aviator Giuseppe Colucci, Gilbert Fourny, group of Italian aviators arriving to train Americans, Garros and Marechal reception after their escape from Germany, Granville Pollock, Sopwith in Schneider Cup race, Renaux taking Prince of Monaco on flight, Maximillian Schmidt’s biplane, Glenn Curtiss in group photo, Reception in honor of aviator Albert Mezergues, recently escaped from German prison, Carlo Tappi, Buffalo, NY, Curtiss training school students, James McQuinn landing on Thames by London Bridge, French “Bird of War” in Serbia, first airmail flight on New York Times logo airplane, signed, Sikorsky passenger plane from which radio program will be broadcast, Handley-Page biplane carried record 40 passengers in 1918, Harmon and Grahame-White, Ripley Bowman with hydroplane, Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais, Prime Minister Lloyd George in reconstructed de Havilland flight for peace negotiations, Marc Pourpe in Pnom Penh, Cambodia, and others. Good.