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[Aerial view of Glenn Martin Bomber (GMB) circling over Washington, D.C., just before starting on Lieut. Col. R.S. Hartz and Lieut. Ernest E. Harmon's Round-the-Rim" circuit flight of the United States]" – Historic Photograph Print

[Aerial view of Glenn Martin Bomber (GMB) circling over Washington, D.C., just before starting on Lieut. Col. R.S. Hartz and Lieut. Ernest E. Harmon's Round-the-Rim" circuit flight of the United States]", [1919 July] — historic photograph
[Aerial view of Glenn Martin Bomber (GMB) circling over Washington, D.C., just before starting on Lieut. Col. R.S. Hartz and Lieut. Ernest E. Harmon's Round-the-Rim" circuit flight of the United States]", [1919 July]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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[Aerial view of Glenn Martin Bomber (GMB) circling over Washington, D.C., just before starting on Lieut. Col. R.S. Hartz and Lieut. Ernest E. Harmon's Round-the-Rim" circuit flight of the United States]"

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Circling above the capital, a Glenn Martin bomber marked GMB appears in this July 1919 view, taken just before it set out on Lieut. Col. R.S. Hartz and Lieut. Ernest E. Harmon's "Round-the-Rim" circuit of the United States. The flight was the kind of long, showy trip that aviators of the period staged to demonstrate their machines and build public support for aviation after the First World War. The aerial vantage point also shows the city's layout from above, which was rare in photographs of the time. Underwood & Underwood, a commercial photography firm, made the print.

Created / published[1919 July]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAerial photographs 1910-1930.Photographic prints 1910-1930.
NotesUnderwood & Underwood photo. No. 1986110.
SubjectsBombers--1910-1930. Stunt flying--1910-1930. Washington (D.C.)--1910-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,282 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180210

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