Beschreibung:

Rocketry and aviation collection of historical images, documenting early European and American rocket and aerospace pioneers and their inventions. A very interesting collection, including the following subjects: i. Wernher von Braun and Rudolf Nebel carrying rockets at Cuxhaven, ca. 1933 ii. Wernher von Braun and Hermann Oberth working at a rocket, c. 1937 iii. Robert Goddard's first liquid-fuelled rocket in his workshop at Roswell iv. Charles Lindbergh and the 'Spirit of St. Louis' at Washington, 1927 v. Johannes Winkler's HW-II rocket, 1931 vi. Max Valier and Dr. Paul Heylandt with their oxygen-fuelled rocket car, 1980 vii. Fritz Opel's Rak. 3 rocket rail vehicle, 1928 viii. Frank Malina, co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1945 ix. A group of portraits of the forefathers of space exploration Forty eight vintage gelatin silver prints on resin-coated paper (1960s-1970s reprints), 25.5 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in), ten with NASA captions on verso, most with the watermark THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK on the verso, a couple with the printed note 'For NASA in house use only', with an additional group of thirteen portraits of rocket scientists, including Konstatin Tsiolkovsky, Hermann Oberth, Willy Ley, Ernst Stuhlinger, printed ca. 1960s-1970s Additional images available on request