Photographs approx. 4x6 cm. (1¾x2½"), set in window mounts 4 per leaf, with captions in white ink beneath the images. Albums are13.5x17 cm. (5¼x6¾"), cloth, with gilt lettering "Photographs" on front covers.
Exceptional collection of snapshot photographs compiled by (and likely most taken by) aviator J. F. Johnson, Hagerstown, MA, U.S. America, with his name and address on the front pastedown of the first, his name alone in the second. The photographs show many airplanes, parked on the ground or crumpled from crashes, various aviators either singly or in groups, airfields, London scenes, etc. Though Johnson was American, he seems to have been serving with the British forces, and there are views of the American Camp at Beddington. There are photographs of an Avroe crash, a Bristol Scout, a Shell Shattered Ambulance at Verdun, a Sopwith Camel Crash, a Sopwith Pup, Lt. Carver's Crash, a Bristol Monoplane, Lt. Coley's Crash (Camel), a Morane Parasol, a photograph of the Voisin biplane in flight from c.1907, Lt. Bishop's Crash (Camel), and more. A number of the aviators are identified, and several of the photographs feature Johnson himself - one of these has been removed, accounting for the odd number of photographs. A rare and valuable gathering of World War I aviation photographs.