Name: FRED FREEMAN (1907-1988) and WERNHER VON BRAUN (1912-1977)
Brand: EMERGENCY! MAN'S SURVIVAL IN SPACE
Price: 28000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

FRED FREEMAN (1907-1988) and WERNHER VON BRAUN (1912-1977)
EMERGENCY! MAN'S SURVIVAL IN SPACE
Original illustration art and annotated, working schematics for the Collier’s “Man Will Conquer Space Soon!” series, plus three drawings by Wernher von Braun. Several of the Ozalid schematics have extensive pencil notes by Wernher von Braun.
various mediums
various sizes
Executed circa 1953 except as noted

Items 1-3, 5
Randy Liebermann, Washington, D.C.
Frederick I. Ordway III (1927-2014), Huntsville, Alabama.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2003.

Item 4
Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), Huntsville, Alabama.
Dr. Carsbie C. Adams (1922-2002), Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Frederick I. Ordway III (1927-2014), Huntsville, Alabama; acquired from the above, 1980.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2003.

Cornelius Ryan, et al. "Emergency! Man’s Survival in Space,” Collier’s, 14 March 1953, pp. 40-41, p. 42, and the front cover (items 1-3). A copy of the magazine is included with the lot.

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1. MANNED SPACECRAFT SHOWING EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT IN CUTAWAY
casein on board by Fred Freeman
23⁷⁄₈ x 21¹⁄₂ in. (60.6 x 54.6 cm).
With 13 related drawings, 12 of which are pencil on tracing paper and one of which is gouache and black marker over a gelatin silver print; and two photostats.

2. INTERIOR OF SPACECRAFT SHOWING CREW, PASSENGERS AND EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT
casein on board by Fred Freeman
11³⁄₄ x 29³⁄₄ in. (29.8 x 75.6 cm.).
With a pencil drawing of roughly the same size and subject on tracing paper; and two photostats.

3. DESCENT OF EMERGENCY ESCAPE CAPSULE BY PARACHUTE INTO THE OCEAN FOLLOWING A POST-LAUNCH ABORT
casein on board by Fred Freeman
27¹⁄₂ x 21¹⁄₄ in. (69.9 x 54 cm.).
With 11 related drawings, pencil on tracing paper and five Ozalid reproductions; and two photostats.

4. BOTTLE SUIT DRAWINGS
pencil on orange Frederick Post engineering graph paper
three drawings by Wernher von Braun, various sizes, late 1950s
made in conjunction with the "Tomorrowland" television series and reprising an escape pod detailed in the above issue of Collier's

5. A portrait photograph of Fred Freeman, c.1980, gelatin silver print, mounted as an exhibition poster and framed to 20¹⁄₂ x 16¹⁄₄ in. ( 52.1 x 41.3 cm.).