Kavel 1213

WWI, Very rare and one of a kind photo album from the first Dutch Airforce Squadron, starting with photo's from 1915 up until 1919, named to observer 1st Lt. "G.A. de Brauw". Consists of album with circa 217 pictures, lots of airplanes including Dutch Farman planes, German planes, British planes, wrecks, lots of aerial photographs of various places and cities in Holland, pictures of planes on the beach at Scheveningen, photo's of the first military airbase Soesterberg, (also original map of the airbase), photo's of airbase Gilze-Rijen, photo's of transport of planes and groundcrew, some newspaper articles, studio photo's of the crew. Also a very interesting wire telegram from the very first Dutch Airforce cross border flight to Kopenhagen in May 1919. All pictures in very good and sharp condition, added some extra photographs, some named, a 1919 dated airplane magazine, an original airforce manual about aerial photographing and a postwar news article about the first cross border flight with the son of the observer, very rare and one of a kind time capsule from the first days of the Dutch Airforce