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This collection contains photographs and documents regarding Austin E. Guinn's activities as a US Navy steward and photographer
from 1909-1922, and as an egg farmer in Butler, Georgia from 1923 until his death in 1945. Included are photographs of events
in the Mexican War, Navy ships in ports in the Caribbean and in World War I Atlantic convoys, Washington DC monuments seen
from the air, photographs of Woodrow Wilson, General Pershing and Marshall Foch, aerial photos of the Billy Mitchell ship
bombing tests, Glenn Curtiss' first seaplane, as well as various other airships in development by the Navy. There are also
many pictures depicting life on the Peach Valley Egg Farm, including legal documents and genealogical information about the
Guinn family and the egg farm.
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