Record ID:
440598
Accession number:
MA 23778.5
Created:
Algiers, Algeria, 1940
Credit:
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2021.
Description:
1 photograph ; 95 x 128 mm
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in pencil on verso: "Arrivée à Alger du quadrimoteur Farman piloté par St Ex."
Forms part of a collection comprised of a school yearbook and 11 original photographs of or related to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (see MA 23778.1-12).
Summary:
Photograph of the four-engine Farman 220 after landing on an airfield in Algiers, with another plane in the background and seven people standing beside the plane and in the shade of one of its wings. After the reconnaissance mission in May 1940 above Arras, the "2/33" group had to fall back on Bordeaux. Seizing a Farman, Saint-Exupéry flew to Algiers from where he hoped to be able to continue the fight. A few days after his arrival, the armistice was signed.
Provenance:
Purchased from Antiquariat Inlibris Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, October 2, 2021.
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