An extensive group of seventeen (17) stereoviews (with 2 additional duplicate views) and two (2) real photo postcards featuring views of early aviation. Views feature Charles Lindbergh, Wilbur Wright, and Art Smith alongside several views of early biplanes and airships, including the Graf Zeppelin. Views include:
1. Two (2). 26408 T. Magellans of the Air - Six American Aviators Who First Encircled Earth by Airplanes, welcomed upon Return Home. Meadville, PA, etc.: Keystone View Company. Imprint and view title to recto. Imprint and description to verso.
2. Two (2). 32062 T. Our Ambassador of the Air - Col. Lindbergh and Plane Spirit of St. Louis. Meadville, PA, etc.: Keystone View Company. Imprint and view title to recto. Imprint and description to verso.
3. Cromwell Dixon at Montana State Fair, 1911. Butte, Montana: N.A. Forsyth. Publisher's 120 N. Mont. St. imprint stamped to verso.
4. 17814 - Art Smith and His Aeroplane on the Aviation Field, Panama-Pacific Int. Exp., San Francisco, Calif. Meadville, PA, etc.: Keystone View Company. Imprint and view title to recto. Imprint and description to verso.
5. *11228 Airplanes - Curtiss in One of His early Biplanes. Ready for Flight. Meadville, PA, etc.: Keystone View Company. Imprint and view title to recto.
6. Outdoor view of a large crowd surrounding a biplane in a field. Uncredited.
7. 14326 - Aviator Morris Farman and his machine showing photographic attachment. New York: Underwood & Underwood. Imprint and view title to recto.
8. Air Ship Winnipeg. 74. [Toronto, Ontario, Canada]: The T. Eaton Co. Limited. Titled in negative. Imprint to mount recto.
9. 32277 T The Graff Zeppelin. Meadville, PA, etc.: Keystone View Company. Imprint and view title to recto. Imprint and description to verso.
10. 14012 - An American war photographer, Merl La Voy, ready for a motion picture flight over the Serbian front. New York: Underwood & Underwood. Imprint and view title to recto.
11. 28029 Some Linderbergh Smiles from the Cockpit of a Lockheed Sirius Monoplane. Meadville, PA, etc.: Keystone View Company. Imprint and view title to recto. Imprint and description to verso.
12. 29365 Calmly and Proudly Col. Lindbergh Receives New York's First Welcome - Grover Whalen of Mayor's Committee on "Macon," New York Harbor. Meadville, PA, etc.: Keystone View Company. Imprint and view title to recto.
13. [This is the machine I went up in at Venice.] Outdoor portrait of a man and woman in leather flight jackets, goggles, and helmets before a biplane. Uncredited. Period inscription to verso.
14. [April 1921 London to Paris in one hundred and seventy five minutes.] View of the G-EATM, a Handley Page Type O. Uncredited. Period inscription to verso.
15. [April 1921. Handley-Page Aero-Service Twelve passengers. London- Paris. Two hours fifty five minutes.] View of the G-EATM, a Handley Page Type O. Period inscription to verso continues: "74 miles an hour / Six guineas $24.80 / By rail + water $17.90 / Average elevation 3000 ft. / No thrills / Pefectly safe."
16. [April 1921. Handley Page Aeroplane London.] View of the G-EATM, a Handley Page Type O. Uncredited. Period inscription to verso.
17. 19031 - Sec'y McAdoo Receiving from Miss Stinson Large Sum Collected for Red Cross in Aeroplane Flight from Buffalo to Washington, D.C. Meadville, PA, etc.: Keystone View Company. Imprint and view title to recto. Imprint and description to verso.
18. Art Smith P.P.I.E. Bird Boy. Real photo postcard. [San Francisco]: Cardinell-Vincent Co., 1915. Title and imprint in negative.
19. La Conquête de Pair l'air au Camp d'Auvours, prés du Mans (10 Octobre 1908) L'aviateur Wilburg Wright regarde d'un mauvais œil l'indiscret photographe. [The Conquest of th Air at the Camp d'Auvours, near Le Mans (October 10, 1908): Aviator Wilbur Wright casts a wary eye at an intrusive photographer.] Real photo postcard. Uncredited.
[Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards, Stereographs] [Western Americana, Western History, Western Expansion, Wild West]
Most mounts curved, as is typical of Keystone and Underwood mounts.