"By Aeroplane to Pygmyland" Accounts of the 1926 Smithsonian-Dutch Expedition to New Guinea

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Annotations to the Journal of Stanley Hedberg

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November 5, 1926 red dope

A lacquer used to protect, waterproof, and tauten the cloth surfaces of airplane wings.

 

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