[Group of prominent members of aeronautic organizations posed, full-length, in Germany, at the Rhön-Segelflug-Wettbewerb] – Vintage Print
![[Group of prominent members of aeronautic organizations posed, full-length, in Germany, at the Rhön-Segelflug-Wettbewerb], 1930 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7f/7faa26cf7fe0-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Group of prominent members of aeronautic organizations posed, full-length, in Germany, at the Rhön-Segelflug-Wettbewerb]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Group of prominent members of aeronautic organizations posed, full-length, in Germany, at the Rhön-Segelflug-Wettbewerb]
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The Rhön gliding competition, held each summer on the Wasserkuppe in the Rhön mountains of central Germany, was the proving ground for European glider design in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and this picture places a group of men from aeronautic organizations on that setting in 1930. They stand full-length in a single row, dressed in the suits and coats of the period, a formal record of the people who ran and promoted flight at a time when gliding was drawing crowds and attention across Germany. The original key to their names is written on the back of the print, which is part of the Ursinus Collection, a body of aviation material gathered by the German aviation historian Oskar Ursinus.
| Created / published | 1930 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1930.Group portraits 1930.Photographic prints 1930. |
| Notes | Key to names of people depicted on verso of photo. Ursinus Collection. |
| Subjects | Aeronautics--Germany--1930. Organizations--1930. Men--Germany--1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,234 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-180845 |
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