British seaplane – Historic Reproduction
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of British seaplane. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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British seaplane
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A glass negative captioned simply as a British seaplane, with a title taken from Bain News Service caption cards that were never independently verified, so the specific aircraft and date remain uncertain. Naval services in Britain and elsewhere used seaplanes and flying boats for coastal reconnaissance and patrol in the early twentieth century, most intensively during the First World War. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency founded by George Grantham Bain, supplied newspapers with news photographs in those early decades, so the image reflects the press interest in aviation of that era.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,685 × 4,129 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19850 |
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