Cal. Rodgers – Historic Reproduction
(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 Cal. Rodgers. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cal. Rodgers
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Calbraith Perry "Cal" Rodgers is the subject here, and the aviator's name marks this portrait as a record of one of the early pioneers of American flight. In late 1911 he set out to fly across the country, a trip that was less a single flight than a long series of hops, repairs, and crashes, all made in a fragile Wright biplane. The Bain News Service, a Manhattan-based wire photo agency, documented many aviators of that era for newspaper readers. The catalog record gives no date, and its title comes from the agency's own caption cards, so the identification rests on those notes. Rodgers died in a crash near Long Beach, California, in April 1912.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,773 × 4,216 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10960 |
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