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ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS DOCUMENTING AIRCRAFT
WITH HOLOGRAPH CAPTIONS
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(AVIATORS.) CURTISS, GLENN HAMMOND. Autograph Manuscript Signed,
“Curtiss,” “G.H. Curtiss,” or in full, 11 times in the third person within the text, captions
for photographs with a small holograph diagram of two airplanes. With over 45 original
photographs of seaplanes, dirigibles, hangars, friends and relations, etc. The captions,
together 8 pages, 8vo, written on two folded sheets; short closed separations at folds, minor
scattered soiling, some pages written vertically. The photographs, including many with
numerals written at upper left corresponding to the numbered captions, various sizes
between 1
1
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2
x2
1
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2
inches and 6x8 inches, most mounted in an album, 1-5 per page on recto
and verso. Oblong 8vo, cloth, bound together with string; mildew aroma, some photos
dampstained, many photos with moderate mirroring to dark areas.
Np, circa 1917
[4,000/6,000]
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1 Rear view of center section of the NC 1, the machine which flew with 52 men aboard.
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2 Front view of NC 1 center section showing the three Liberties & their propellers.
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3 Rear view center section of NC 2, an improvement over the NC 1.Two ‘tractors’ & one ‘pusher’
instead of three ‘tractors.’ . . .
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5 Rear view of NC 2 with AMH[Augustus Moore Herring?] sitting alongside for comparison.
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6 Side view of NC 2 with AMH under end of wing for comparison.The thing in left foreground is
the tail of the NC 1.The NC 2 tail does not show in picture.Their position in hangar was as shown
in sketch. Picture taken from ‘X’ [Diagram showing two airplanes from above and an ‘X’]. . . .
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10 Showing method of blocking up tail for repair work on hull or hull bottom. . . .
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13 Fuselage of small non-rigid dirigible airship ‘Blimp.’ . . .
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17 Blimp hangar Rockaway.
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1 Motor Iceboating. The first attempt to use a Curtiss motor with an air propeller.
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2 No. 1-Red Wing.The first aeroplane to make a public flight in America on March 17th 1908,
when it flew 319 ft. from the ice on Lake Keuka, N.Y. F[rederick] W[alker] Baldwin, Aviator.
Aeroplane was wrecked.