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Pre-1913 Aviation Photo Collection. Binder with 42 photographs, of which 13 are mounted on cards that include some of the earliest aviation pioneers and their airplanes. Some of these are Martinet and Legagneux shooting game from a Henri Farman biplane, Bleriot’s Toury-Artenay Flight: October 31, 1908, 1913 Pan-Pacific Exposition flight, Becue piloting Fabre hydroplane, 1911, Flight from Chalons to Rheims, first town to town flight: H. Farman, October 30, 1908, 1911 Curtiss launching from cable experiment, Fabre Hydraeroplane in flight, 1911, Farman hydraeroplane in flight, Monaco, 1912, C. S. Webster in Burgess-Wright Hydro, Ormond Beach, 1912, Henri Farman about to start race in which he won the $10,000 Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize, including the landing at end of race photo, Robert Collier taking a flight with Sopwith. Together with 32 unmounted photos depicting various airplanes at the 1912 Monaco meet, including Collier’s Voisin, Renaux’s M. Farman, Curtiss Hydroplane, Robinson’s Curtiss, Gaubert’s Farman, Montalent’s Breguet. Fischer’s Farman, interior of Farman factory, and other airplanes and aviators. 45 photographs in total. Very good.