Impressive collection of well over 600 items, consisting primarily of signatures but also including an assortment of letters and signed photos, featuring a wide array of notable figures including artists, businesspeople, world leaders, politicians, military figures, inventors, scientists, cartoonists, athletes, and more. These autographs were chiefly obtained through the mail between the 1940s and 1980s and are still contained within their original mailing envelopes; many of the envelopes contain more than one signed item. Each envelope is addressed to Frank M. Flack, who began mailing out autograph requests as a private in the army, continuing as he rose to sergeant, and then later as an English professor. A small smattering of the autographs were purchased from notable dealers or received from friends, but the vast majority were obtained through the mail.
Among the most notable names are: Hank Aaron, Charles Addams, Elizabeth Arden, Louis Fabian Bachrach, Max Baer, Bernt Balchen, Cecil Beaton, David Ben-Gurion, Thomas Hart Benton, Harry Blackstone, Jr., Pappy Boyington, Richard E. Byrd, Paul Cadmus, Primo Carnera, Oleg Cassini, Carrie Chapman Catt, Florence Chadwick, Marc Chagall, Ezzard Charles, Claire Lee Chennault, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Howard Chandler Christy, Mark W. Clark, Jacqueline Cochran, Michael Collins, Christian Dior, Father M. J. Divine, James Doolittle, Raoul Dufy, Gertrude Ederle, James Montgomery Flagg, Fontaine Fox, Rube Goldberg, Pancho Gonzales, Red Grange, Hank Greenberg, Walter Gropius, William F. Halsey, Armand Hammer, William Randolph Hearst, Conrad Hilton, David Hockney, Ben Hogan, J. Edgar Hoover, Willie Hoppe, Lee Iacocca, Augustus John, Duke Kahanamoku, Yousef Karsh, Emmett Kelly, Rose Kennedy, Elizabeth Kenny, Hank Ketcham, Walter Knott, V. K. Wellington Koo, Fiorello La Guardia, Trygve Lie, Douglas MacArthur, Connie Mack, Bill Mauldlin, Charles W. Mayo, Margaret Mead, Karl Menninger, Robert A. Millikan, Henry Moore, Grandma Moses, Edward R. Murrow, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Jawaharlal Nehru, Byron Nelson, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Ringling North, Sandra Day O’Connor, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jesse Owens, Maxfield Parrish, Norman Vincent Peale, J. C. Penney, Fred Perry, John J. Pershing, Walter Plunkett, Syngman Rhee, Eddie Rickenbacker, Matthew Ridgway, Norman Rockwell, Georges Rouault, Helena Rubinstein, Jonas Salk, Col. Harland Sanders, Gene Sarazen, Albert Schweitzer, Jack Sharkey, Willie Shoemaker, Igor Sikorsky, Sam Snead, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Edward Steichen, Edward Teller, Josip Tito, Roscoe Turner, Randy Turpin, Jonathan M. Wainwright, Thomas J. Watson, William C. Westmoreland, Sgt. Alvin C. York, and John Young. In overall very good to fine condition. A simply marvelous assemblage spanning a vast array of significant world figures.
Due to the large quantity a few secretarial and/or printed signatures may be included. Interested parties are encouraged to view the collection in person at our offices or call us with specific inquiries, as this collection is sold as is and no returns will be accepted.
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