Title: Photograph & negative of Amelia Earhart's plane in flight, with related publication correspondence Author: Sunderland, Clyde Place: Oakland, CA Publisher: Date: 1937-1981 Description: Includes: Silver print copy photograph of photo Amelia Earhart's Lockheed HE Electra in flight over the water, signed in the negative by Earhart and other members of her crew, dated 3/17/37, with marginal marks for cropping, copyright and publication information on slips affixed to verso. 8x10. * Negative of the above photograph, 4x5. * Typed correspondence between Clyde Sunderland (in carbon) and various persons at Time-Life Books, regarding use of the photograph in the book "Epic of Flight: Women Aloft," for publication in 1981. The fee paid to Sunderland was $440. * A few news clippings and other items relating to Sunderland, and his photographs of Amelia Earhart. Small archive relating to one of Sunderland's most famous photographs, taken the day Earhart took off for Hawaii on the first leg of her planned round-the-world flight, which was to end with her disappearance into the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. The signatures in the negative are those of Amelia Earhart, Paul Martz (Hollywood stunt pilot who was acting as Earhart's technical adviser), Henry Manning (first navigator, had been the captain of the President Roosevelt, the ship that had brought Amelia back from Europe in 1928), and Fred Noonan (second navigator, had recently left Pan Am, where he established most of the company's China Clipper seaplane routes across the Pacific). Evidently Sunderland, who took many photographs of Earhart in flight over the years, asked the crew to sign a photograph he had recently taken the day they embarked on the flight, and then took a photograph of the signed photograph. Clyde Sunderland (1900-1989) was a pioneering aerial photographer, operating out of his home base of Oakland, California beginning in the 1920’s. He was commissioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt to write a textbook on aerial photography and train naval photographers in 1939 and he taught at Pensacola until the end of the war. This material came out of his estate. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good or better condition. Item number: 189146
Title: Photograph & negative of Amelia Earhart's plane in flight, with related publication correspondence Author: Sunderland, Clyde Place: Oakland, CA Publisher: Date: 1937-1981 Description: Includes: Silver print copy photograph of photo Amelia Earhart's Lockheed HE Electra in flight over the water, signed in the negative by Earhart and other members of her crew, dated 3/17/37, with marginal marks for cropping, copyright and publication information on slips affixed to verso. 8x10. * Negative of the above photograph, 4x5. * Typed correspondence between Clyde Sunderland (in carbon) and various persons at Time-Life Books, regarding use of the photograph in the book "Epic of Flight: Women Aloft," for publication in 1981. The fee paid to Sunderland was $440. * A few news clippings and other items relating to Sunderland, and his photographs of Amelia Earhart. Small archive relating to one of Sunderland's most famous photographs, taken the day Earhart took off for Hawaii on the first leg of her planned round-the-world flight, which was to end with her disappearance into the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. The signatures in the negative are those of Amelia Earhart, Paul Martz (Hollywood stunt pilot who was acting as Earhart's technical adviser), Henry Manning (first navigator, had been the captain of the President Roosevelt, the ship that had brought Amelia back from Europe in 1928), and Fred Noonan (second navigator, had recently left Pan Am, where he established most of the company's China Clipper seaplane routes across the Pacific). Evidently Sunderland, who took many photographs of Earhart in flight over the years, asked the crew to sign a photograph he had recently taken the day they embarked on the flight, and then took a photograph of the signed photograph. Clyde Sunderland (1900-1989) was a pioneering aerial photographer, operating out of his home base of Oakland, California beginning in the 1920’s. He was commissioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt to write a textbook on aerial photography and train naval photographers in 1939 and he taught at Pensacola until the end of the war. This material came out of his estate. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good or better condition. Item number: 189146
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