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[Man aloft in glider beside bird] – Vintage Wall Art

[Man aloft in glider beside bird], 1899 — historic print
[Man aloft in glider beside bird], 1899. 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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This rare historic print captures [Man aloft in glider beside bird] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A man hangs beneath a glider's wing in this drawing, flying beside a bird in an open sky. The image was reproduced as a halftone, a printing method that let publishers place tonal pictures on the same page as type, and it serves here as the frontispiece to an 1899 Boston book. Gliding was drawing wide attention then, largely through Otto Lilienthal's experiments in Germany, which ended with his death in 1896. The catalog details come from an old caption card and have not been independently checked.

Created / published1899
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
NotesHalftone repr. of drawing. Illus. in: Merrill, The Great Awakening... (Boston, 1899), frontis. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Aviation; Gliders; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan941 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130870

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