Stream of passengers at New York International Airport where about 15,000 travellers weekly ... arrived and departed for foreign countries in 1951 – Antique Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Stream of passengers at New York International Airport where about 15,000 travellers weekly ... arrived and departed for foreign countries in 1951, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Stream of passengers at New York International Airport where about 15,000 travellers weekly ... arrived and departed for foreign countries in 1951
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New York International Airport, the name then used for what is now John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, is the setting for this 1951 view of a steady stream of travelers moving through its terminal. The record notes that roughly 15,000 people a week arrived and departed for foreign countries at the field, a figure that shows how quickly transatlantic flight was growing after the Second World War. Photographed by the Wide World agency, the picture captures the crowded, busy character of postwar air travel, when flying overseas was still a novelty for most Americans and airports were becoming major public gateways.
| Created / published | 1951 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1950-1960. |
| Notes | Photograph by Wide World. |
| Subjects | New York International Airport--Facilities--1950-1960. Passengers--New York (State)--New York--1950-1960. Airports--New York (State)--New York--1950-1960. Air travel--New York (State)--New York--1950-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,166 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162501 |
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