Crash of Maryland Free State, 1929

The collection consists of one box with 16 folders containing 34 photoprints made from 1925-1930. Subjects are primarily Black's plane and boat travels, including maps of his air route London-South Africa-Japan. There are photographs of him and his crew with the Fokker aircraft and at sites in Europe, Asia and Africa including the Acropolis in Greece, pyramids of Egypt, Rhodesia and Siam. There are pictures of the Dinka tribe in the Sudan, Africa.

Other travel documents include photographs of ships and aircraft: the maiden voyage of Japanese cruise ship Tatsuta Maru, the Maryland Free State airplane and wreck, and the yacht Sabola. There is also a also pictures of Black and his wife in Eskimo clothing given them by Richard E. Bird.

The collection contains one piece printed ephemera: sheet music to "Hello Batavia" with William Swapp's autograph; and one map which is kept with the Rolled Maps.