All the comfort of a Pullman car: the saloon of a Handley-Page [airplane] – Historic Reproduction
![All the comfort of a Pullman car: the saloon of a Handley-Page [airplane], 1920 — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/09/093861125732-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic print captures All the comfort of a Pullman car: the saloon of a Handley-Page [airplane] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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All the comfort of a Pullman car: the saloon of a Handley-Page [airplane]
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Here the "saloon" is an aircraft passenger cabin, not a bar, which is a useful distinction given how this gallery groups it. The picture shows the interior of a Handley Page airliner, and the caption's comparison to a Pullman car signals how the builders hoped to sell air travel: as an extension of the comfortable rail journeys that wealthy travelers already knew. The image appeared in *The Illustrated London News* in January 1920, a period when Britain's early commercial airlines were just starting scheduled passenger service. Note that the caption record is unverified and was transcribed from an old card, so details beyond the magazine citation should be checked against the original.
| Created / published | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1920 Jan. 24, p. 118. Reference copy may be in SSF - Airplanes--1920. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Transportation; Airplanes--1920; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,194 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146368 |
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