Glenn Curtiss; Lieuts; Park; Goodier; McLeary; Brereton, 12/4/12 – 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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A window into the past: Glenn Curtiss; Lieuts; Park; Goodier; McLeary; Brereton, 12/4/12, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Glenn Curtiss; Lieuts; Park; Goodier; McLeary; Brereton, 12/4/12
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Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss stands with four Army lieutenants, Park, Goodier, McLeary and Brereton, in a glass negative dated 1912. Military aviation was still tiny then, with only a handful of officers trained to fly, so a group like this shows how the services were just beginning to take airplanes seriously. Curtiss had already made his name with speed records on motorcycles and with the flying machines he built and demonstrated. The negative comes from the Bain News Service, a commercial news photo agency, and its caption details were recorded at the time rather than checked independently.
| Created / published | 12/4/1912. |
|---|---|
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,791 × 4,179 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-12260 |
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