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Shields, Lorne Item aerial photographs
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Aviation album

Black cardboard cover with gold embossed letters "Photographs"; image on cover. Spine missing but stitched binding intact. Black pages.

Photographs of aerial exhibitions at Texas Love Field Air Corps Training Depot on November 12 and 13, 1918 to celebrate the end of WWI. Fairly detailed notations included as text printed directly onto the images. Images show pilots and early airplanes, photographs of blimps; select number of aerial photographs of the land with respective geographic locational coordinates, crowds of spectators, parachute jump - with flags, images of airplane crashes.
Most photographs taken from the air.

Midtown New York City, N.Y.

matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of NYC. Signage on buildings reads: "Macy's," "Gimbel's," "Baltman and Co.," "Park Central Hotel." Recto caption in white at bottom of image: "(0506-876A-8)(3-16-33-1:30P)(12-2000) MIDTOWN NEW YORK CITY, N.Y."

Columbia University, New York City, N.Y.

matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of university campus and surrounding area. Signs across river read: "Palisade Amusement Park, Surf, Bathing," "The National Sugar Refining Co., Jack Frost Sugars." Recto caption, bottom left, in white: "(0305-876A-8)(2-27-33-1:00P)(12-2000) COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY, N.Y."

Mass. State House, Boston Mass.

matte gsp with white border. Aerial view of government building and surrounding city scape. Signs on buildings include: "Hotel Taft," "Chevrolet." recto caption, bottom left: "(0130-885-0-8)(5-25-32-1P)(12-2500) MASS. STATE HOUSE, BOSTON MASS."

Capital, Providence, R.I.

matte gsp with white border. Depicts an aerial view of prividence Rhode Island, centred on the state capitol building and surrounding area. Recto caption, bottom left: "(070-886I-8)(5-25-32-1P)(12-2000) CAPITAL, PROVIDENCE, R.I."