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Pioneering Aviators Photo Archive. A significant collection of over 100 photographs of pre-1930 pioneering pilots, airplanes, inventors, air meets, and firsts in aviation. A partial list includes end of England-Australia flight, O. G. Simmons, pilot of Robert J. Collier’s airplane, Igo Etrich and his famous Etrich Machine, “Black Cats of Hollywood,” first airmail flight, christening of “Buenos Aires,” first transcontinental airmail service, First NY Naval Militia airplane and pilot, M. Drouin, Clyde Murvin Wood, Carl F. Ward, Benne Dixon, James M. Johnson, Amelia Earhart in group photo, Admiral R. E. Byrd, Wade Smith’s around the world flight christening, T. D. Millings, Lt. Arnold, 1911 pilot of first authorized experimental airmail flight, George Hearst’s monoplane, Clarence Culver and his airplane radio invention, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Wright-Bellanca, Edward Evans and Linton Wells, Gov. Charles Gates of Vermont with aviator Geo. A. Gray, Lt. J. P. Roullot, Lt. T. de W. Milling and 2nd. Lt. W. C. Sherman, Charles F. Willard, Capt. Norbert Carolin, Jack Knight, Lt. C. E. Bauch, Albert Bond Lambert, Clarence Chamberlain, Aerial Patrol Unit No. 3 with hydroplane, Lt. Ross Smith at Singapore, Art Smith at Panama Pacific International Exposition, Raynal Bolling (first high ranking aviator to be killed in combat), and others. Largest 8 x 10”.