The earliest photograph depicts the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier with their airship, the first to use electric navigation; it is dated October 8, 1883, and is signed by both brothers. Contemporary photographic prints relating to the Wright brothers include the brothers posing with the "1904 Flyer" at Huffman Prairie (Simms Station), 1904; Wilbur Wright, F. S. Lahm, and Hart O. Berg with the Wright airplane at HunaudiŠres au Mans (Sarthe), France, 1908; and a Wright flyer over an unidentified body of water. The collection also contains several contemporary postcards picturing the Wright brothers at Pau, France, and at Centocelle Field, near Rome, in 1909. The collection includes a large photograph, signed by the subject, of Charles E. Taylor with a half-scale model, made in 1937, of his first motor for the Wright airplane. Photographs of Glenn Curtiss and his work include Curtiss at the start of his record-breaking flight from Albany to New York, May 29, 1910; Navy Lt. Theodore Gordon Ellyson in a Curtiss seaplane on the launching platform, Hammondsport, New York, September, 1911; the U.S. Naval Curtiss Plane, 1912; and a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" converted into a military air ambulance, circa 1918. A group of photographs given by author Carl M. Cleveland in May 1980 depicts the career of Clyde E. Pangborn, from his early cadet days, through his barnstorming years, to his partnership with Hugh Herndon in the first non-stop flight from Japan to the United States in October 1931. Another photograph, inscribed by the subject, depicts barnstormer V. W. "Squeek" Burnett demonstrating precision inverted flight at the 1940 Miami air races. Several of the barnstorming images of Pangborn, as well as the image of Burnett, were published in Paul O'Neil, Barnstormers & Speed Kings (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, c1980). Charles A. Lindbergh is represented in two photographs: one depicts him in his barnstorming days, with Shorty Lynch and a dog mascot; the other depicts him airborne in the "Spirit of St. Louis" on his Tour of the 48 States. The collection includes several photographs of John and Matilde Moisant, including a contemporary print of Matilde in her flying suit, circa 1912, and a more modern reproduction print of Matilde with Harriet Quimby, also circa 1912. The collection also contains formal portraits of Louis Bleriot, Richard Byrd (by G. Maillard Kesslere, New York), newspaper and radio reporter Floyd Gibbons (1933), and William L. "Billy" Mitchell (1917). The portraits of Byrd and Gibbons are inscribed by the subjects to Daniel Carter Beard, illustrator, reformer, naturalist, and co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America; the portrait of Mitchell is a 1956 reproduction of the original in the Smithsonian Institution. The collection also includes an album of 46 photographs presented by the Milwaukee Sentinel to World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient Major Richard I. Bong and his wife in 1945, shortly before the major's death; a signed postcard depicting the Swiss parachutist Romanesdi; and a postcard of two unidentified actors in a mock-up of a Farman Voisin biplane, circa 1910.