Vintage 1940s WWII Pilot Aviation Airfield Snapshot Photos Lot 5 4x6 B&W People

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Condition: Used

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View Vintage 1940s WWII Pilot Aviation Airfield Snapshot Photos Lot 5 4x6 B&W People with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. Vintage 1940s WWII Pilot Aviation Airfield Snapshot Photos Lot 5 4x6 B&W People [Used]: Vintage lot of five black-and-white gelatin-silver snapshot photographs showing moderate age-related handling and storage wear with natural curl to the sheets. Front image surfaces display semi-gloss sheen with scattered fine surface scuffing, light scratches visible in angled light, small handling marks, and localized soiling or discoloration, including a prominent horizontal crease across the upper sky area of the pilot portrait and additional small bends and wrinkles near several borders. Edges and corners are softly worn with tiny nicks and chips along the scalloped margins and slight rounding to the straight-bordered prints; some corners lift slightly where old album paper is attached Versos exhibit overall age toning with extensive brown scrapbook paper and adhesive residue covering large areas, plus a small graphite number "18" on one print, all photographs remaining intact as original loose prints. Original vintage 1940s black-and-white gelatin-silver snapshot photographs offered as a small lot of five images featuring a uniformed pilot and related military and people scenes. The primary aviation photograph shows a smiling pilot or airman in flight gear seated on a bench outside a clapboard-sided building, wearing a flight helmet and parachute harness with his kit resting beside him, while a single-engine aircraft and airfield structures appear in the background beyond the paved runway and grassy verge. The accompanying four snapshots depict a uniformed man standing on a tree-lined residential street with vintage automobiles parked along the curb, a second view with two uniformed men on the same sidewalk near houses and shrubbery, two men in rolled-sleeve shirts and cuffed trousers standing together in a field before a tall fence and trees, and a young girl in a short-sleeved dress, socks, and shoes posing in a yard bordered by flowers in front of a brick building. The photographs are small-format semi-gloss gelatin-silver prints on paper, with the pilot image finished with scalloped borders and the companion snapshots printed with straight white borders; front surfaces show typical period tonal range and detail, while the reverse sides carry areas of adhered brown scrapbook paper and adhesive residue, one bearing a small graphite number notation and the others otherwise lacking captions or studio marks. Features include World War II–era aviation and military subject matter with pilot and aircraft, original black-and-white gelatin-silver snapshot production on paper, a mix of scalloped and straight-bordered prints, lot grouping of five images combining airfield, street, and family scenes, and presentation as loose, unframed original photographs with album backing and residue suitable for display, research, or addition to aviation, militaria, and vernacular people-photography collections. MSC186-173 Condition: Used. Category: Collectibles › Photographic Images › Photographs.