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FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT "Bob" CARLISLE (1924 - 2025) USN Retired (34-years) - - - RENOWNED U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER AND ICONIC DOCUMENTOR OF PIVOTAL 20th CENTURY HISTORICAL EVENTS! If you are not familiar with Bob Carlisle please google him - - - His prolific life and career could be made into a movie! - - - HE ENLISTED IN THE NAVY ON DECEMBER 8, 1941 (the day after Pearl Harbor) AND WITH OVER 30-YEARS AS A SENIOR CHIEF U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER (and later 4-years in the U.S. Air Force) HE LITERALLY TOOK 100's OF THOUSANDS OF ORIGINAL OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY, NAVAL AVIATION, and U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTOGRAPHS and SLIDES ALL OVER THE WORLD - - - AND LATER WAS LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION AT THE PENTAGON DURING WHICH HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN PHOTO-DOCUMENTING MANY HISTORICAL MOMENTS INCLUDING PRESIDENTIAL, NASA, MILITARY OPERATIONS, and OTHERS! - - - HE IS CREDITED AS A CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER ON MANY U.S. MILITARY AND OTHER PUBLISHED BOOKS! - - - ADDITIONALLY, HE BECAME ONE OF THE WORLD's MOST PROMINENT COLLECTORS AND PRESERVATIONISTS OF EVERYTHING RELATED TO PHOTOGRAPHY WITH A FOCUS ON U.S. MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHS(literally saving hundreds of thousands of archived, obsolete, original U.S. Navy photographs from destruction during the micro-film era), - - - BUT ALSO INCLUDING CAMERAS FROM THE DAWN OF PHOTOGRAPHY, HIS OWN OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES, OTHER OFFICAL and HISTORICAL U.S. MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHS, SLIDES OF ALL KINDS, and OTHER ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALL KINDS (daguerreotypes, tintypes; cabinet cards, and more), and EVEN PHOTOGRAPHY-RELATED ADVERTISING!
The item listed below is from his MASSIVE archive collection - - - Please check back as I will be listing many other items from this HISTORIC collection over the next several months!
THIS LISTING IS AN AUTHENTIC, ORIGINAL, VINTAGE, VERY COMPREHENSIVE, 1970 U.S. NAVY PRESS KIT ISSUED ON THE OCCASION OF THE "10th ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S. NAVY FLEET POLARIS / POSEIDON BALLISTIC MISSILE WEAPONS SYSTEM" (1960 - 1970), as shown! Comes in the original 9" X 12" portfolio / folder covers with 2 pockets inside - - - The contents include: 1. SIX (6) B&W 8" X 10" PRESS RELEASE PHOTOGRAPHS (each with their original press release slips tipped-onto the back sides); 2. FOUR (4) DIFFERENT COLOR and B&W PRESS RELEASE and FACT BOOK CATALOG / BROCHURES (each approximately 8" X 10.5" with a WHOPPING 76 combined total pages, some illustrations); 3. FIVE (5) DIFFERENT STAPLED "DEVELOPMENT and TECHNICAL DATA" TYPED PRESS RELEASE PACKETS (each 8.5" X 11" with a WHOPPING 50 combined total 1-sided typed sheets); - - - and 4. THE U.S. NAVY COVER SHEET / MEMORANDUM, all as shown!
Seeall 24 images including close-ups AND see the 12-inch ruler in images for size perspective - - - Sizes and page counts as noted above! COLLECTIVELY provides fantastic, very comprehensive technical and engineering data AND illustrations on the design, development, evolution, AND current status (1970) of the U.S. Navy's Polaris / Poseidon Ballistic Missile System, WITH some amazing B&W photographs!
OUTRAGEOUS - - - A VERY RARE ORIGINAL U.S. NAVY PRESS KIT - - - ANDWE COMBINE ITEMS FOR ECONOMICAL SHIPPING, JUST ADD ITEMS TO YOUR CART AND REQUEST AN INVOICE- - -Some extremely isolated and extremely faint long-term storage wear and/or age-toning to the PORTFOLIO / FOLDER covers - - - ALL CONTENTS ARE COMPLETELY UNMARKED and in excellent+ or better condition - - - Overall in excellent or better VINTAGE condition! CHECK OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE GREAT STUFF!
