[ Photographs ] (Aviation) Group of 67 photographs of early flying machines, beginning with 2 shots of hot air balloons in Paris at the end of the 19th-century, to early biplanes and an array of zeppelins, and featuring a large number of women

[ Photographs ] (Aviation) Group of 67 photographs of early flying machines, beginning with 2 shots of hot air balloons in Paris at the end of the 19th-century, to early biplanes and an array of zeppelins, and featuring a large number of women aviators (including Mrs. Eliott-Lynn, a British pilot who broke the world's altitude record for light airplanes), queuing up for flights, preparing to take part in air sprints, at an aviation race at Bournemouth, and more; several views of the zeppelins "Norge" (which successfully flew over the North Pole) the May-Fly, and the early French dirigible "Ville de Paris"; and such planes as the 3-seater twin-engine tractor biplane "de Havilland, " the Avro monoplane, the Moth biplane, Handley-Page "Hendon" (a torpedo carrying airplane with slotted wings), the Avian, 1927 planes from the U. S. Army, as well as a shot of the 1908 accident of a Wright Brothers airplane in which one man was killed and Orville was injured, and much more. Two albumen and the remainder silver prints, from 2 x 3 to 7.5 x 9.5 inches or the reverse, several with highlighting, and several mounted, most with date and caption information written, in pencil or ink, and/or with typewritten caption labels affixed to verso, many with an ex-collection handstamp and/or date stamp on verso. 1890s-1930s