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1953-54 New York City - Elaine Brockhouse Scrapbook, NY Yankees, Harvard vs Yale
$ 18.45
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1953-54 New York City - Elaine Brockhouse Scrapbook, Pinecrest FL
. One of a series of scrapbooks kept by Elaine Brockhouse, 91-year-old niece of William D. Pawley, who initiated the formation of the famous American volunteer group of airmen known as the Flying Tigers who supported China in World War II from an aircraft manufacturing and supply base he organized in India. He was a confidant of Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and U.S. ambassador to Peru and Brazil after World War II.
The scrapbook is 9 X 12 in. and very thick. Includes Belvoir House photos (home of Uncle Bill) in Virginia; many Playbills including Picnic, Can-Can, Oklahoma, Sadler's Wells Ballet, The 7 Year Itch, Victor Borge, American Gothic, Tea and Sympathy; Warrenton Horse Show program; NY Yankees vs. Detroit Tigers game with 2 tickets; New York Central Progress in Power brochure from Grand Central locomotive exhibit; football programs and tickets for Brown vs. Yale, Harvard vs Princeton, Harvard vs. Yale, Army vs. Navy; wedding photos - friends getting married; New York Young Republicans 1953-54 brochure; Hollywood Ice Revue; more..
Nice condition.