Pischoff aeroplane – 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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A window into the past: Pischoff aeroplane, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Pischoff aeroplane
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The caption names a machine built by someone called Pischoff, photographed in 1908, a year when powered flight was moving quickly from experiment to public spectacle. The print comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a New York news photography archive whose pictures were made for newspapers and distributed to editors. Early aircraft of this kind were fragile, usually wire-braced wood and fabric frames, and photographs like this one show how inventors presented their designs to a public still unsure whether heavier-than-air flight was practical. The plain, documentary framing is typical of newspaper work from the period.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Airplanes--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,283 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-205671 |
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