$940
Harvard Aeronautical Society Album, approx. sixty-six albumen prints taken at the Harvard - Boston Aero Meet, Sept. 3 - 13 1910, all with inscriptions identifying aviators and personalities including President Taft, Clifford B. Harmon, Governor Draper, Wilbur Wright, Ralph Jonstone and Graham White, pioneering planes including Curtiss Bi-Plane, Wright Bi-Plane, Bleriot Monoplane, various wrecks, and other related subjects, period pasted-in biographies of many of the aviators, pasted-in glossary of aviation terms, two studio portraits and inscription identifying album as the work of Boston resident Berenice L. Payson, most images 3 1/2 x 4 1/2, album 5 x 7 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-10-28