Assembling wings for airplanes – 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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Assembling wings for airplanes
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This photograph shows workers assembling wings for airplanes, a task central to American aircraft production during the First World War. Wing structures of that era were typically built from spruce spars and ribs, then covered with linen or cotton fabric and braced with wire, so the work was largely hand craft. The record dates the image to about March 18, 1918, though that date comes from an unverified caption card, so it is best read as approximate. The scene offers a window into the wartime effort to expand factory output quickly.
| Created / published | c1918 Mar. 18. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | J 229289 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 451. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,096 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112820 |
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