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The Aeroplane Photo Supply was a company owned by a Mr. C.G.B. Stuart located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The firm was in operation from the mid-1940s until 1959 when he had moved to England. We understand the origination of the business was to supply materials used by the allied military to learn aircraft recognition. Later the business was expanded to sell photos to aviation enthusiasts using advertisements in various aviation publications. From information received from the National Air & Space Museum we know that some 30,000 photos were purchased from Mr. Stuart in 1959 when he retired and the business ceased operation. In Mr. Stuart's own words the collection was "systematically collected over a period of 25 years from a number of old-timers who had been collecting for the years prior to my entering the field." It has also been learned that Mr. Stuart sold off in a giant sale, in his own words, "tons" of aviation books. Over the years APS was in operation in Toronto, a number of catalogues were issued, further below a cover image of those that are in our files as hard or digital copies. Scans or hard copies of missing catalogues are welcomed. Please contact Johan Visschedijk. Contents in the APS Index Spreadsheet (under continuous construction by Johan Visschedijk) is based on APS catalogs (shown below) from Bill Pippin and Ron Dupas, spreadsheets from Dan Shumaker and Ron Dupas and photos from the individual collections of: Curtiss Aldrich James Bass Burton Berenson Nico Braas Pierre Bregerie Mike Butler Steve Carle Ed Coates Albert Cole Mark Crowson Ray Crupi Alfred Damen Roger Descomb William Dickson John Duby Ron Dupas Bill Ewing Clement Farnik Jack Fisher David Gauthier Nelson George Hartley Goodale Aubry Gratton John Hilverda David Horn Gordon Hubbard Bernhard Klein Bill McBride Jack McKillop Robert McMahan John Menzies Les Morris Ron Myers Robert Pauley Eugene Penick Bill Pippin William Ramp Cristian Savin Dan Shumaker Gary Smith Weldon Stevens Mike Sullivan Van Swindelle Jacques Trempe Walter van Tilborg Johan Visschedijk Steve Voorhees John Voss Art Wiggins Al Zieg

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