Rocketry and aviation collection of historical images, documenting early European and American rocket and aerospace pioneers and their inventions.A very interesting collection, including the following subjects:i. Wernher von Braun and Rudolf Nebel carrying rockets at Cuxhaven, ca. 1933ii. Wernher von Braun and Hermann Oberth working at a rocket, c. 1937 iii. Robert Goddard's first liquid-fuelled rocket in his workshop at Roswelliv. Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis at Washington, 1927v. Johannes Winkler's HW-II rocket, 1931vi. Max Valier and Dr. Paul Heylandt with their oxygen-fuelled rocket car, 1980vii. Fritz Opel's Rak. 3 rocket rail vehicle, 1928viii. Frank Malina, co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1945 ix. A group of portraits of the forefathers of space exploration Forty eight vintage gelatin silver prints on resin-coated paper (1960s-1970s reprints), 25.5 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in), ten with NASA captions on verso, most with the watermark THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK on the verso, a couple with the printed note For NASA in hoe e only, with an additional group of thirteen portraits of rocket scientists, including Konstatin Tsiolkovsky, Hermann Oberth, Willy Ley, Ernst Stuhlinger, printed ca. 1960s-1970s Additional images available on request