Malcolm Allison - Gliding – 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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Step back in time with Malcolm Allison - Gliding, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Malcolm Allison - Gliding
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The Bain News Service title credits this glass negative to a man named Malcolm Allison and labels the subject "Gliding," though the record marks that title as unverified and gives no date. Unpowered gliding, in which pilots ride air currents after a tow or a hillside launch, drew wide press attention in the United States and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s, when newspapers often sent photographers to airfields and launch sites. Bain's small-format glass plates from this period capture the sharp, documentary detail of news photography of the time. Readers should treat the name and the activity as the archive's catalog description rather than settled fact.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,766 × 4,147 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11090 |
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