Anton Flettner & wife – Historic 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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Anton Flettner & wife 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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The caption names the engineer Anton Flettner alongside his wife, though the identification comes from the Bain News Service's own notes and has not been independently verified. Flettner was a German inventor best known for the rotor ship, a vessel driven by tall spinning cylinders that use the Magnus effect to catch the wind, and he later worked on helicopter designs. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency that supplied photographs to newspapers, so the sitter's public profile probably explains why the picture was made. The glass negative carries no firm date.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,228 × 4,816 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40365 |
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