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 A LOT OF SEVEN (7) ALL DIFFERENT, ORIGINAL, VINTAGE, OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY COLOR SIDES SHOWING SEVERAL U.S. NAVY SHIPS (including a submarine) PERFORMING VARIOUS AT-SEA MANOUVERS, as shown! - - - PHOTOS MIGHT HAVE BEEN TAKEN DURING SOME TYPE OF ASSAULT GROUP TRAINING EXERCISE(?), maybe! All 7 slides with the official U.S. Navy Photographic Center imprint - - - All 7 slides with the same prefix "K", then individually numbered. None are dated and the ships are not identified, but this Lot appears to be from circa +/- about late 1970's to early 1980's! 

See all 10 images including some close-up views! PLEASE NOTE: My two images of the photograph showing Bob Carlisle receiving his 30-year pin are shown FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT INCLUDED)! 

OUTSTANDING - - - AND WE 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 slides - - - OTHERWISE ALL 7 SLIDES ARE COMPLETELY UNMARKED and in excellent+ or better VINTAGE condition! CHECK OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE GREAT STUFF!