4974 - 5211 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
= Including fine photos of pilots just landed or being cheered on their return after finishing a record breaking trip. I.a. Tommy Rose (record holder London-Capetown and back, and a photo of him after his victory in the King's Cup Air Race 1935); C.W.A. Scott and Giles Guthrie (winners of the Portsmouth-Johannesburg air race); Lord Sempill, Sir Alan Cobham and Lady Cobham (great flight round Africa); H.L. Brook (record holder Australia-England in 1935); E.H. Fielden (the first Captain of the King's Flight); Commanders Sherren and E.G. Hilton (both killed in an accident during the King's Cup Air Race in 1937) and several photographs of Campbell Black and J.H. Macarthur (showing the parachutes which saved their lives when they crashed in Egypt during their record flight to Cape Town and back in 1935). Some famous passengers: prime minister Mac Donald, King George V and Queen at Empire Air Display, King George stepping out of his plane at Mildenhall, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, Sir John Simon (foreign secretary under Ramsey Mac Donald), Sir Frederick Handley Page (of the Handley Page factory), Mr Miles and Whitnet Straight (of the Miles Whitney Straight aeroplane) and the Duke and the Duchess of York on entering an Imperial Airways liner (the first flight of the Duchess).
= Inluding many pictures of aircraft carriers and planes active in Asian seas. Photographs show i.a. F-84 Thunderjets on board the U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier "Sitkoh Bay", a Walrus seaplane landing on the deck of a carrier, various merchant ships converted into miniature aircraft carriers, H.M.S. Victorious, H.M.S. Formidable, a crash landing of a Seafire on a British carrier and a Fairy Swordfish flying above a carrier. Also incl. several British aircrafts, i.a. Wallace aircraft, Beaufighter, Fairy Firefly two-seater reconaissance plane, Boulton Paul "Defiant" MK1, and Blackburn "Roc".
- Vague horizontal fold; crossed out stamp on verso.
AND 9 other press photos, various sizes, ±1930, mostly showing (preparations for) ballooning races, i.a. at Berlin-Tempelhof (n.d.), Bitterfeld-Sachsen (n.d.), Münster (1930), Pittsburgh (n.d.) and Paris St. Cloud (1927).
- Incl. some reprints of photographs; a few with owner's entry of H. Hegener.
= Photographs of i.a. the following aeroplanes: The Beardmore Inflexible; Pterodactyl Mark IV; Armstrong Whitworth AW52; Fairey Battle monoplanes; Fairey P.4/34; Fairey Firefly F/R Mk1; Armstrong Whitworth AW52; Hawker "Sea Fury"; Supermarine Spitfire; Bristol Beaufort; Wellington III; Armstrong Whitworth Whitley heavy bomber monoplane; Handley Page monoplane bombers; Handley Page Hampden; Vickers Wellington monoplane and the Blenheim Bomber.
= I.a. the "Ark Royal", "Blackburn Firebrand", "Bücker Bü 131 Jüngmann", "Fieseler Fi 156", "Focke-Wulf Fw 189", "Heinkel He 111", "Henschel HS 123", "H.M.E. Carrier", "Junkers Ju 87" and "Messerschmitt Taifun".
AND an album w. 24 photographs and newspaper clippings about the Dutch aircraft factory "Fokker" and the unveiling of a commemorative WWII plate, honouring the people that died from the bombing of the factory.
= Incl. several pressphotos of "Graf Zeppelin" and the interior of a zeppelin.
AND ±230 mostly Dutch, English and German newspaper clippings, i.a. on the Hindenbrug crash, Ferdinand Zeppelin, flight scenes and construction.
= Attractive lot w. a variety of mainly American airships from the 1920s-1930s, showing the construction, interiors and exteriors, i.a. "Akron" and sistership "Macon", "Baby Blimp", "City of Glendale", "Goodyear Blimp", "Graf Zeppelin", "Los Angeles", "LZ 120" and "TC13 Army Blimp". The "Akron" crashed during a thunderstorm in the sea near New Jersey in 1933. Out of the 76 crew members and passengers, only three survived. A year later, sistership "Macon" suffered the same fate by crashing into the sea near the Californian coast, sinking in Monterey Bay. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLV.
= I.a. a portraits of Paul McCartney and director Richard Lester, and one of the Beatles and Henk van der Meyden, Paul posing with one of the dancers, George and Ringo on the train and John posing on set with George, Ringo and three women next to him. Some of these photos were used by Henk van der Meyden and Jan Langereis in their Dutch book "Yeah Yeah Yeah, Zo zijn de Beatles" (publ. 1964).
AND 4 VHS (?) videotapes titled "Big Band and the Beatles", w. date on cover 1988 and misc. documentation about the publication of the Dutch book "Yeah Yeah Yeah, Zo zijn de Beatles" incl. correspondence about copyright, newspaper clippings, a few offsets of Beatles photos and designs for the book cover.
= I.a. views of Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, a few portraits of Henri Lambert, some Belgian picture postcards and 17 later press photos (1950) w. a few photos of Auguste Piccard.
AND an album w. 76 albumen prints, 8x13 cm., w. views of Antwerp, Blankenberge, Bruges, Brussel, Ghent and Mechelen.
AND 97 other photographs, ±1900-1930, various sizes (between 5,5x8,5 cm. and 20x27,2 cm.).
= Several views of European cities, i.a. Aix-les-Bains, Berchtesgaden, Cologne, Dresden, Florence, Middelburg, Nuremberg, Paris.
- Missing 4 photographs (originally 38 photographs).
= All of works by architect W. Bijlard (Utrecht), i.a. before and after the construction of his buildings and a few architecural drawings. Buildings mostly in Utrecht but also some in Soest, Voorburg and Hooglaren.
= From a rare large series of nudes of the photographer's mother.
= Impressive view of the Twin Towers as seen from Cortlandt Street.
= Part of the series "Lift-Off" (2017-2022) about aircrafts and passengers.
= Possibly taken in the same year Boekhout photographed Cortlandt Street (1989).
