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Famous flyers attend Aero ball at Washington / Underwood & Underwood, Washington. – Historic Reproduction

Famous flyers attend Aero ball at Washington / Underwood & Underwood, Washington., c1931. — historic photograph
Famous flyers attend Aero ball at Washington / Underwood & Underwood, Washington., c1931.. Historic photograph from the Ballooning collection.

(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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Famous flyers attend Aero ball at Washington / Underwood & Underwood, Washington. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Three pilots in evening dress at a Washington aviation ball make this group portrait stand apart from the usual flight-day photographs. Amelia Earhart, Elinor Smith, and Hiram Bingham are named in the record, and the image shows the aviation community socializing at a formal event around 1931. Earhart had gained national fame after her 1928 transatlantic passenger flight, and Smith was a young record-setting flier of the same period. Underwood & Underwood, a commercial press photography agency, produced the picture, which offers a glimpse of how the interwar flying world presented itself to the public.

Created / publishedc1931.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1930-1940.Portrait photographs 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesNo. 74067 RU.
SubjectsEarhart, Amelia,--1897-1937. Smith, Elinor. Bingham, Hiram,--1831-1908.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,286 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-187863

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