Navy Loening Amphibian plane – Vintage 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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Navy Loening Amphibian plane
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The subject here is a Navy Loening amphibian, a flying boat that could take off from and land on water or on a prepared runway, which made it useful for coastal patrol and reconnaissance. Designer Grover Loening built his amphibians in New York, and versions of the type served with the U.S. Navy in the 1920s. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the glass-negative files of the Bain News Service, a wire photo agency that supplied newspapers with news pictures in the early twentieth century. The record gives no exact date, so the image is best read as a snapshot of early naval aviation and the period when seaplanes were still a central part of its work.
| 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 | 5,589 × 4,118 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-39427 |
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