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Portrait of Crawford Gordon Jr.

Item consists of a photograph mounted on cream card with decoratively frayed edges. Portrait of a man. There is a embossed stamp at the bottom right of card with the letters "NFB" above a version of the Canadian shield and the text "CANADA" below. Handwritten in red ink at the lower right of image, "To Alf Martin/ With sincere best/ wishes/ Crawford Gordon/ Dec. 5/45".

Arrow Sport airplane and pilot

unmounted print with white border. Depicts a pilot standing in front of a plane. Recto inscription "Arrow Sport - LeBlond - List $3485 - '29" Verso inscription "Arrow Sport- '29, Side by side seating. LeBlond 5 engine. Demonstrator with 25 hours- 1500. New- $2000, list 3485 FOB Lincoln."

[airliner over ocean]

glass covered slide with silver mat and red tape on edges. Depicts a silver and red propeller airliner over a large body of water. The image is quare, leaving the top and bottom of the frame black. Small label upper right recto: "7."

[spaceship illustration]

glass-covered slide with black tape on edges. A photo reproduction of an illustration of a spaceship. Verso reveals caption (backwards) not visible from recto: "Hermann Gansindt's spaceship. The two cylindrical containers right and left of the bell-shaped explosion chamber were to hold the supply of explosion 'pills.' The long passender cabin had a center well to permit passage of the exhaust."