Small "Autographs" album containing the signatures of pilots from Hendon Aerodrome in London, England circa 1912-1914 and 1919. Newsprint portraits or text captions pasted alongside aviators' autographs. Some listed "Hendon Pilots" include Robert Slack, Gustav Hamel, Lewis Turner, George W. Beatty, Cheridale de Beauvoir Stacks, Norman Spratt, Claude Grahame-White, Harry G. Hawker, Marcel Desoutter, Marcus D. Manton, and Pierre Verrier. Supplimental documents include biographical information for some of these aviators.
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Javier Arango Early Aviation Collection, NASM.2022.0033, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.