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LOT 2025
WWI Aerial Reconnaissance Photograph Album
EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
15 x 12 5/8 in. (1.5 kg, 38 x 32 cm).
Including thirty-two annotated half-plate size original aerial photographs, most dated 1917-1918, of the WWI German front line trenches and other war zone areas, together with twenty-two photographs taken on the ground of various, mostly WWI military, subject matters; a German Mortar Company 'sold book', together with a number of other early 20th century pamphlets loosely inserted.
Provenance
The Kusmirek Collection, UK.
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