Curtiss flying boat – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Curtiss flying boat. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Curtiss flying boat
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A Curtiss flying boat is the subject of this glass negative, though its title comes from notes the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or caption card and has not been independently verified. Curtiss aircraft, built by the company founded by Glenn Curtiss, were among the early American designs that could take off from and land on water, which made flying boats useful where no airfield existed. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency active in the early twentieth century that supplied photographs of current events to newspapers. The record gives no date, so the exact year is uncertain, but the picture belongs to a period of rapid experimentation in aviation.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,741 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17648 |
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