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Task force hornets – Historic Reproduction

Task force hornets, c1944. — historic print
Task force hornets, c1944.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Titled *Task force hornets*, this color halftone reproduces a painting by Lawrence Beall Smith, an artist who painted naval and aviation subjects during the war. The record dates it to about 1944 and lists it as number 85 in the Abbott Naval Aviation Collection, a series of images copyrighted by Abbott Laboratories of Chicago. The title's reference to hornets suggests carrier-based fighters of the kind that served with the fast carrier task forces in the Pacific, though the record does not describe the scene itself. The printed reproduction carries the painter's color and drama into a form meant for wide distribution.

Created / publishedc1944.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesColor halftone reproduction of painting by Lawrence Beall Smith, copyrighted by Abbott Laboratories, Chicago. Catalogue of the Abbott Naval Aviation Collection, no. 85. This record contains unverified data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,042 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159870

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