[Louis Paulhan rounding the marker and winning the distance record at Reims, France, Aug. 1909] – Historic Reproduction
![[Louis Paulhan rounding the marker and winning the distance record at Reims, France, Aug. 1909], 1909 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ad/add20e76e111-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Louis Paulhan rounding the marker and winning the distance record at Reims, France, Aug. 1909], 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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[Louis Paulhan rounding the marker and winning the distance record at Reims, France, Aug. 1909]
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Louis Paulhan is caught rounding a marker at the Reims airfield in August 1909, during the flight that the caption says took the world distance record from Wilbur Wright. The picture comes from the Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne, the first large public aviation meet, which drew pilots and crowds from across Europe to the flat fields outside the city. Printed as a postcard and sold to meet visitors, it shows how quickly the event became a national spectacle. The record itself is unverified in this archive, but the scene captures the excitement of the early years of powered flight.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print (postcard). |
| Genre | with subsequent revisions." |
| Notes | Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne (Aôut 1909). Vol de Paulhan prevant le record du monde sur Wright le classe troisième ..." Photoprint by Cliché Neurdcin(?). No. 236. This record contains unverified |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 938 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110730 |
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