Collection of 14 original vintage photographs of early American aviation pioneers, ranging in size from 5.25 x 3.25 to 9 x 7, including: two circa 1906 photographs of unusual aircraft by Charles and Adolph Wittemann, stamped on the reverse: "C. &. A. Wittemann, Aeronautical Engineers, 17-19 Ocean Terrace & Little Clove Road, Staten Island, New York City"; one photograph of Paul Otto Schiert and his ornithopter; two photographs of George R. White and his ornithopter; two photographs of the 1910 Los Angeles Air Meet; three photographs of Antony Jannus taking off from St. Louis in his seaplane in 1912; one photograph of a Columbia-Gyro hydroplane in Chicago in 1913; one photo of an airplane in flight at Bisley during rifle experiments in 1913; one photograph of the Thomas Flying Boat in New York in 1914; and one photograph of explorer Arnold Henry Savage Landor with a small airplane. In overall very good to fine condition, with creasing and silvering the to two larger photos.
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