Testing plane – Vintage Print
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Testing plane. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Titled simply "Testing plane," this glass negative comes from the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that supplied photographs to newspapers and magazines. The agency was founded by George Grantham Bain around 1899, and its glass-plate negatives captured fine detail that suited news reproduction. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified data supplied by the agency, so the specific aircraft and occasion remain uncertain. Even so, the subject places the picture among the early efforts to build and test flying machines in the years after the Wright brothers' first powered flights in 1903.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,834 × 3,302 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26080 |
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