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(AVIATION.) WRIGHT, ORVILLE; AND GLENN L. MARTIN. Photograph
Signed, by both,
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-length standing portrait, showing Wright and Martin standing beside
American Export Airlines president William H. Coverdale, who additionally signed. Each
signed in the blank lower margin, below the relevant portrait. 6
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x11 inches overall; date inscribed in an unknown hand in right lower margin, in pencil.
Np, [1936-37?]
[1,000/2,000]
This image may have been taken on the occasion of Orville Wright’s visit to Martin’s
Baltimore factory in November of 1936. In the following year, Pan American Airways, for
which the Glenn L. Martin Company built trans-ocean aircraft, was competing for a share of
the international travel market against companies such as American Export Airlines.
JOKING IN HAWAII
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BALL, LUCILLE. Large Autograph Postcard Signed, “Lucy Arnaz,” to Radie
Harris: “I took 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of flour, just a pinch of baking soda—and look what
happened—but everything is so different and gigantic over here, I should have known.” On
the correspondence side is printed, “Nu-Nui Card: Say ‘New New-y’—It’s Hawaiian for
‘Very Big’.” On the verso is a photograph of Mauna Loa erupting. 7x9 inches.
Honolulu, 7 May 1957 [from postmark]
[400/600]
“SURELY THERE CAN BE . . . A HUMBLE SEAT
AT THE GOVERNMENT TABLE?”
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BEECHER, HENRY WARD. Autograph Letter Signed, to the President’s sister
Rose E. Cleveland, asking for her help in finding a government job for a needy woman. 2
pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet, personal stationery. With the original envelope
addressed in his hand. (AKF)
Brooklyn, 2 October 1885
[300/400]
“I do not wish to ask you to exert any political influence upon your brother—but there is a
case quite free of politics, which I desire to communicate to your sympathies and aid. Mrs.
Upshur will relate the reasons and grounds of her appeal to government . . . . Surely there can
be under our rich government some humble place where she may rest without feeling she is a pauper. . . ”
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