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Flights unforgettable exploits of the air
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Title
Flights [graphic] : unforgettable exploits of the air / drawings by Frank Lemon.
Published
[Paterson, N.J.?] : Published privately by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation for [blank], c1928.
Physical Description
7 pictures : offset lithograph, color ; 54 x 44 cm. + 1 porfolio (55 x 44 cm.)
Local Notes
BEIN 2012 Folio 363: Imperfect: portfolio mutilated but without loss of text.
BEIN 2012 Folio 364: Imperfect: portfolio wanting. Five of the pictures mounted, two unmounted.
Notes
Title from printed label on porfolio.
Published privately by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation for Christmas 1928 in a limited edition of 500 copies.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
[1] The Wright brothers' "Strange Contraption" rises at Kitty Hawk, 1903
[2] Louis Bleriot passes the White Cliffs of Dover in May, 1909
[3] Lieut.-Commander Albert C. Read nears the Azores in a Navy plane, 1919
[4] Crossing the States in the span of the same sun, Lieutenants Macready and Kelly, 1923
[5] With one beat of his wing, Charles Lindbergh goes to Paris, 1927
[6] To Australia by air. Kingsford-Smith and his companions over Suva, 1928
[7] The conqueror of one pole attempts the other, Byrd, the Antarctic, 1929.
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