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Chicago Aviation Archive.
5 December 2018, 14:00 EST
New YorkUS$2,000 - US$3,000
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Chicago Aviation Archive.
Extensive archive of material related to the very beginnings aviation in and around Chicago—Clearing Field, Hawthorne Race Track, Grant Park and Cicero Field—including:
1. Approximately 90 photographs, predominantly gelatin silver prints with some collotypes and half-tone prints, various sizes, 2-3/4 x 2 inches to 4-3/4 x 3-1/2 inches, c.1910, with some duplicates, most with captions on verso. Subjects include Illinois aviators as well as those from outside the state, including Glenn Curtiss, A.L Brown, Edwin Ely, J.C. Mars, Jimmy Warde, H.H. Dailey, Whipple S. Hall, and others, as well as images of various participating aircraft.
2. Seven glass plate positives, image size approximately 2 x 3 inches, with images believed to be J.C. Mars and Glenn Curtiss with his Curtiss Pusher, and a Farman airplane in 3 of the slides; all shot at an undetermined location, although possibly Chicago's Hawthorne Race Track during the Air Meet of October 1-8, 1910 or Cicero Flying Field c.1911.
3. Brochures, event lists, and published official rules of the Gordon Bennett meet.
4. Printed Membership Certificate for the Gordon Bennett Trophy, serial number 3340, unnamed, in dark orange and black ink, featuring an image of the trophy, inset portraits of former champions Glenn Curtis, Charles Weyman, and Claude Grahame-White, and the logo of the Aero Club of America on a background of a sky scene filled with a variety of flying machines. 9 1/2 x 13 inches.
5. Commemorate medal in bronze gilt and enamel, on green ribbon, with top bar reading "International Aviation Meet Associaton," together with 15 "Subscription Member" badges in bronze finished metal, pinback, with suspended red acetate ribbon.
An interesting view of Aviation in Chicago with images of some of the very earliest aviators as well as ephemera from the Gordon Bennett Aviation Cup meet. Photographs include numerous Curtiss aircraft, but also original aircraft built in Chicago and its surrounds such as by J.E. Mair who built a biplane in his backyard, H.H. Dailey who built a center-drop biplane, a biplane by James E. Case, a triplane by F.W. Kreck and Carl Bates who was building an aeroplane; also includes numerous images at Chicago's Hawthorne Field, images of J.C. Mars at the Mid-West Aviation meet, 1910 and in Omaha, Whipple Hall, who was the first man to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in an aeroplane, former bicycle champion turned aviator Charles W. Miller (also billed as one of the heaviest aviators at around 240lbs), etc. Should be seen.
1. Approximately 90 photographs, predominantly gelatin silver prints with some collotypes and half-tone prints, various sizes, 2-3/4 x 2 inches to 4-3/4 x 3-1/2 inches, c.1910, with some duplicates, most with captions on verso. Subjects include Illinois aviators as well as those from outside the state, including Glenn Curtiss, A.L Brown, Edwin Ely, J.C. Mars, Jimmy Warde, H.H. Dailey, Whipple S. Hall, and others, as well as images of various participating aircraft.
2. Seven glass plate positives, image size approximately 2 x 3 inches, with images believed to be J.C. Mars and Glenn Curtiss with his Curtiss Pusher, and a Farman airplane in 3 of the slides; all shot at an undetermined location, although possibly Chicago's Hawthorne Race Track during the Air Meet of October 1-8, 1910 or Cicero Flying Field c.1911.
3. Brochures, event lists, and published official rules of the Gordon Bennett meet.
4. Printed Membership Certificate for the Gordon Bennett Trophy, serial number 3340, unnamed, in dark orange and black ink, featuring an image of the trophy, inset portraits of former champions Glenn Curtis, Charles Weyman, and Claude Grahame-White, and the logo of the Aero Club of America on a background of a sky scene filled with a variety of flying machines. 9 1/2 x 13 inches.
5. Commemorate medal in bronze gilt and enamel, on green ribbon, with top bar reading "International Aviation Meet Associaton," together with 15 "Subscription Member" badges in bronze finished metal, pinback, with suspended red acetate ribbon.
An interesting view of Aviation in Chicago with images of some of the very earliest aviators as well as ephemera from the Gordon Bennett Aviation Cup meet. Photographs include numerous Curtiss aircraft, but also original aircraft built in Chicago and its surrounds such as by J.E. Mair who built a biplane in his backyard, H.H. Dailey who built a center-drop biplane, a biplane by James E. Case, a triplane by F.W. Kreck and Carl Bates who was building an aeroplane; also includes numerous images at Chicago's Hawthorne Field, images of J.C. Mars at the Mid-West Aviation meet, 1910 and in Omaha, Whipple Hall, who was the first man to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in an aeroplane, former bicycle champion turned aviator Charles W. Miller (also billed as one of the heaviest aviators at around 240lbs), etc. Should be seen.