Henri Farman after winning Deutsch prize of aviation, ND Photo / ND Photo – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Henri Farman after winning Deutsch prize of aviation, ND Photo / ND Photo. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Henri Farman after winning Deutsch prize of aviation, ND Photo / ND Photo
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Henri Farman, the aviator pictured here, is shown after winning the Deutsch prize for aviation, a record dated January 13, 1908. That month he was one of the most closely watched pilots in France, and the prize honored a flight of about a kilometer in a closed circuit, a distance that showed a powered aircraft could steer and turn rather than simply leave the ground. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, whose news photographs were taken and printed quickly for newspapers, so it captures the press interest of the moment. Its glass negative and the caption, which the Bain service supplied without verification, are worth reading with that context in mind.
| Created / published | Jan. 13, 1908. |
|---|---|
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,872 × 4,260 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1288 |
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