Description:
Album with Aviator Signatures, 1930s. A large three-post album containing material, mostly signed covers, signed by approximately 150 aviators, including the signatures of Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Orville Wright, Admiral Byrd, Rickenbacker, Ovington, and many others, with many envelopes signed by female aviators, such as Amy Johnson, Gladys O'Donnell, Margaret Perry, Elinor Smith, Betty Lund, Mildred Kauffman, Jean La Rene, Marjorie Louise Deig, J.M. Keith Miller, Blanche Wilcox Noyes, Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, Laura Ingalls, Teddy Kenyon, Ruth Nichols, Ruth Elder, Bobbie Trout, Frankie Renner, Edna May Cooper, Mae Haizlip, Mary Lady Heath, Alicia Patterson, and others; all identified and mounted on album pages with accompanying documents, clippings, and other material, with a few signed photos, notes and letters, mostly signed envelopes, some discolored by facing newsprint clippings for decades, also including photographs of Lindbergh and Earhart with printed signatures, and other material, should be seen.
Estimate $2,000-3,000
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Keywords
Ruth Nichols, Amy Johnson, Elinor Smith, Laura Ingalls, Margaret Perry, Alicia Patterson, Edna May Cooper, Blanche Wilcox Noyes, Marjorie Louise Deig, Mary Lady Heath, M. Keith Miller, Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, Jean La Rene, Mae Haizlip, Mildred Kauffman, Bobbie Trout, Betty Lund, Frankie Renner, Gladys O'Donnell, Byrd, Ruth Elder
John Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
508-970-3293
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