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Old 18 September 2009, 11:47 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Hey folks - here is a RPPC image of a U.S. Navy Caquot I picked up along the Oregon Coast. Nice one.

Also picked up two non-aviation related photos - one is a sad story about a signal corps squadron where on the back it is noted that nearly all of those pictured were killed. The card appears to be of British soldiers. I will just post a link, rather than post the card image here. http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...alCorpsRsz.jpg
The back has the tragic note at the top: http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...alCorpsRsz.jpg

The second is of a group of Americans in France... nice group shot and the back of the card is a note from the soldier to his sister in West Virginia.

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...nFranceRsz.jpg

Back
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...anceRvsRsz.jpg

Also found two Keystone View Company fesselballoon images. So got really lucky I felt for just browsing.

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N.Moser was a photographer active in the New York area during the first decades of the 20th Century. His work included many photographs of U.S. Navy subjects. More of his pictures can be seen here, a small selection surely of the thousands he may have shot as a professional photograph.

About the interesting card with the British soldiers, I could not read their fate as I did not get a view of the back of the card. Further I was wondering what these men were, a special unit, much flags ?

Thanks for viewing your interesting pictures.

Cheers

Kees
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