Ready for Grand Canyon flight – 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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Step back in time with Ready for Grand Canyon flight, 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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Few photographs from the early 1920s show an airplane readied for a flight over the Grand Canyon, and this one, titled "Ready for Grand Canyon flight," captures that moment of preparation. Around 1922, flying over the canyon was still a novelty. Open-cockpit biplanes of the period were more often associated with barnstorming and exhibition flying than with regular sightseeing. The print is credited to R.V. Thomas, and its date places it when aviation was first offering a new way to see the canyon from above, beyond the mule trails and rail routes that had long carried visitors to the rim.
| Created / published | c1922. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo copyrighted by R.V. Thomas. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Airplanes--[1922]; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,076 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135682 |
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