Adm. Twinnings aeroplane gun – Vintage Print
(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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Adm. Twinnings aeroplane gun comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Adm. Twinnings aeroplane gun
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The subject is an aeroplane gun, a weapon mounted for firing from an aircraft, and the caption card gives the name of an admiral as "Twinnings," a spelling the Bain News Service may have recorded imperfectly. Armament of this kind was new in the years around the First World War, when navies and armies were first testing whether machine guns could be fired effectively from flying machines. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, supplied newspapers with photographs like this one on short notice, and its glass negatives now make up a large part of the Library of Congress holdings. The name and date are unverified in the record, so viewers should treat those details with some caution.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,159 × 5,747 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10790 |
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