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Auction: 364 - Autographs & Documents e-Auction featuring the Mike Roth Aviation Collection Part I
Lot: 109

Aviators, Aces and Pioneers. Group of 15 photos: 6 1/3 x 8 7/8 of Billie Mitchell in uniform and Eddie Rickenbacker (right corner missing); 5 x 8 - Lieut. Cyrus Bettis 1925; 6 ¼ x 4 ¾ - pioneer aviator Lincoln Beachey 1913 in his plane looping the loop; 8 x 10s: 1939 portrait of Orville Wright (red editorial marks margins); Eddie Rickenbacker in WWI uniform by his plane stapled with smaller shot of him ca. 1940 (official US Army Airforce photos); Rickenbacker as President and GM of Eastern Air Lines; Capt. Ira C. Eaker 1929 with his P-12; 3 of Ira C. Eaker stapled top left - in uniform and in pilot's gear before plane; Louis Blériot before plane (cropping lines on front); WWII ace Joseph J. Foss; Major Reuben Fleet (attached to Consolidated Aircraft Corp Bio of Fleet); Tex Rankin and Phil Henderson (photo: Gordon Conner, Cleveland). Some with editorial marks on fronts. [15]

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