Title: Gelatin silver photograph of Amelia Earhart's Lockeed HE Electra in flight over the water, signed in the negative by Earhart and other members of her crew, dated 3/17/37
Author: Sunderland, Clyde
Description: 8x9¾. With Sunderland's imprint in the negative.With signatures in the negative on white strip beneath image, dated 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 are 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. Accompanied by the negative of the 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 photograph came out of his estate.
Heading: (Photographs - Clyde Sunderland)Place Published: Oakland
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Date Published: 1937 (printed later?)
Author: Sunderland, Clyde
Description: 8x9¾. With Sunderland's imprint in the negative.With signatures in the negative on white strip beneath image, dated 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 are 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. Accompanied by the negative of the 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 photograph came out of his estate.
Heading: (Photographs - Clyde Sunderland)Place Published: Oakland
Publisher:
Date Published: 1937 (printed later?)
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Fine condition.
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Americana - Travel & Exploration
1:00 PM PT - Apr 17th, 2008
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PBA Galleries
133 Kearny Street
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