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Photos of Flying Boats over SF Bay by Sunderland

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Title: 2 gelatin silver photographs of flying boats over the bridges of San Francisco Bay
Author: Sunderland, Clyde
Description: Includes: Photograph of a Pan American Airways Clipper, four engines, flying over the Golden Gate Bridge from the west. With Sunderland's imprint in the negative. 7½x9½. * Photographs of a large flying boat, four engines, flying just south of the Bay Bridge, with San Francisco beyond and the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. 5x7. Together, 2 gelatin silver photographs, with negative of the first image.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. These photographs came out of his estate.
Heading: (Photographs - Clyde Sunderland)Place Published: Oakland, CA
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Date Published: c.1940's