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(AVIATION—NAVAL AIR CORPS)
World War I-era album compiled by an American naval corpsman in France.
With more than 335 photographs depicting sea planes, dirigibles, a night bomber, bi-planes, crack-
ups, aviators (including Capt. Corry), dignitaries (Assistant Secretary of State Roosevelt), military
men, scenes of battlefield destruction, and more. Silver prints, various sizes from 1x2
1
/
4
to 7x9 inches
(2.5x5.7 to 17.8x22.9 cm.), mounted recto/verso, 5-8 prints per sheet, with captions, in pencil, on
the black mounts, or, in ink, on prints recto. Oblong folio, leatherette, front cover detached and
worn; ties. 1917-18
[500/750]
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(GROWING UP)
An album with more than 150 photographs chronicling the life of Joan Shirley Ebbett.
A sweet album dating from the subject’s birth, in 1929, to the year she turned 20, in 1948. Silver
prints, measuring 4
1
/
4
x2
1
/
2
inches (10.8x6.4 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, mounted recto/verso,
each with a date, in ink, on recto or the mount; the earlier photographs with captions. Small 4to,
decorative cloth with a pink ribbon tie; the pastedown and front free endpaper with notations
describing Shirley’s birth, in ink. 1929-48
[300/450]
WITH
—A poignant album titled
In Memoriam Catherine Marchi,
documenting the wedding,
honeymoon, and death of a young woman in 1940-41.With more than 100 photographs. Silver
prints, sizes ranging from 3x2 to 9
5
/
8
x7
5
/
8
(one) inches (7.6x5.1 to 24.4x19.4 cm.), and the reverse,
cornered recto only, with captions, in white ink, including poems and additional text. Oblong 4to,
decorative covers with a tie binding. 1940-41.
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