[Rarebooks] fs: Aeroplane Views of Baltimore Harbor, c.1924

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 6932 )  [Baltimore] United States Navy and Harbor Board of Baltimore. 
AEROPLANE VIEWS OF BALTIMORE HARBOR AND APPROACHES.
[Baltimore]: (s.n.), [1924?]. Wrappers, Oblong Quarto, [ii], 67 pages, Black 
& white photographs, folding map. Near Fine.
      A remarkable and quite scarce visual record of the western Chesapeake 
and Patapsco River shorelines from just north of Annapolis through the 
industrial and commercial docks in Baltimore and on out to North point. This 
book consists of 67 full page black and white aerial photographs taken by 
the U. S. Navy, Bureau of Aeronautics under the command of Rear Admiral W. 
A. Moffett. There is a fold-out index map tipped onto inside rear cover 
showing the locations of all 67 photographs. The series of photographs was 
taken beginning "on the west side of the Chesapeake Bay north of the mouth 
of the Severn River, and continuing up the west side of the bay; Patapsco 
River, and Baltimore Harbor, passing around the Upper Basin and down the 
East Side of the Harbor and River to North Point." Bound in brown paper 
covers with gilt embossed title on front cover, stapled binding. Covers have 
a few short edge tears and shallow wrinkles. Numerals "3-121" penned 
vertically at lower fore corner of front cover....... $175.00
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