Ward starting 1911 plane – Antique 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Ward starting 1911 plane in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Ward starting 1911 plane
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The title credits a man named Ward with starting a plane in 1911, placing the picture in the earliest years of powered flight, when engines were often started by hand-turning the propeller. Caption data from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers from about 1900 into the 1920s, is marked as unverified, so Ward's identity and the occasion remain uncertain. Surviving views of pilots readying early machines are valuable to aviation historians, since few of those fragile aircraft were preserved.
| 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 | 5,848 × 4,179 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10801 |
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