French army aviators at Mineola – 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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This historic photograph of French army aviators at Mineola brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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French army aviators at Mineola
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The title places these French army aviators at Mineola, a Long Island village whose Hempstead Plains fields hosted some of the earliest American flying exhibitions and, later, military aviation activity. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied newspapers in the early twentieth century, made the glass negative, and its caption cards are the source of the title, which the Library of Congress lists as unverified. Pictures like this one, showing foreign airmen on American soil, record the close exchange of flying know-how between Europe and the United States during the years when aviation was moving from novelty to military tool.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,390 × 4,940 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25900 |
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