Raynors HCA 2019-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2019
Mounted albumen photograph, 34” x 7, folded into five segments, now separated. the pencil ID, “City and Bay of Horta, Fayal, Azores.” The sepai tone image shows 9 tall ships in the harbor, one of which is on its side. VG Horta also entered into aviation history, when Captain Albert C. Read (U.S. Navy) completed the first Atlantic leg of the first transatlantic flight, via the plane, when he piloted his NC-4 floatplane into the Bay of Horta in May 1919. After 1939, Horta was a scheduled waypoint on the transatlantic flying boat routes between North America and Europe, that included the Pan Am Clipper fleet, which docked in Horta harbour.
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