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Extreme closeup of Philippine Martin Clipper in flight over San Francisco Bay - Capt. Musick at controls – Historic Reproduction

Extreme closeup of Philippine Martin Clipper in flight over San Francisco Bay - Capt. Musick at controls, c1936. — historic photograph
Extreme closeup of Philippine Martin Clipper in flight over San Francisco Bay - Capt. Musick at controls, c1936.. Historic photograph from the San Francisco 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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Extreme closeup of Philippine Martin Clipper in flight over San Francisco Bay - Capt. Musick at controls comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Extreme closeup of Philippine Martin Clipper in flight over San Francisco Bay - Capt. Musick at controls

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Captain Edwin Musick is at the controls of the Philippine Clipper, a Martin M-130 flying boat, in this close view over San Francisco Bay. The Clipper was one of Pan American Airways' flagship aircraft on its transpacific route, and it inaugurated the airline's San Francisco to Manila service in November 1935. Musick, a veteran Pan Am pilot, flew many of the early Pacific crossings before he died in a 1938 crash in American Samoa. The photograph captures the large flying boats that opened the Pacific to commercial air travel in the years before World War II.

Created / publishedc1936.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotoprint copyrighted by Clyde Sunderland, Oakland, Calif. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Airplanes; Ph. Ind. Musick, Edwin, d. 1938; Pan American Airways Corporation--Equipment & supplies--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,221 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155943

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