Army flier at Brough – 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
A window into the past: Army flier at Brough, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Army flier at Brough
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The title names an Army flier at Brough, though the record gives no date and notes that the caption is unverified. Brough is a village on the Humber estuary in East Yorkshire, where the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company built and tested aircraft during the First World War. The Bain News Service, a New York news photo agency, distributed pictures of aviators and wartime aviation to newspapers, and its glass negatives like this one are among the earliest surviving press images of flight. Because the caption cannot be confirmed, the sitter's identity and the exact setting should be read as the agency's own description.
| 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 | 5,066 × 3,653 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-38686 |
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