Early Flight Collecting Cards

Early flight collecting cards, ca. 1895

From the Tissandier Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress.

This is from a beautiful flickr set of flight collecting cards, old trade cards and other interesting things put together by by trials and errors. (Follow the link for more.) My grandfather, William, and his brothers were early aviators in WWI. (link to Wikipedia article on Austen Crehore).

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