[Military airplane on tarmac at sunset] – Antique Print
![[Military airplane on tarmac at sunset], [between 1945 and 1947] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f7/f7179996bd91-L.webp)
(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 photograph captures [Military airplane on tarmac at sunset] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Military airplane on tarmac at sunset]
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This color print shows a military airplane on a tarmac as the sun goes down, with the low evening light softening the aircraft's outline and the ground. The record catalogs it among American fighter planes of the 1940s, and its date of roughly 1945 to 1947 places it just after World War II, when many wartime fighters were being flown back, stored, or retired. Color prints from this period were still uncommon, since dye coupler processes were only beginning to spread into everyday photography. The Air Force did not become an independent service until 1947, so this image captures aviation during a period of transition.
| Created / published | [between 1945 and 1947] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : dye coupler, color. |
| Genre | Dye coupler prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | No. 18. |
| Subjects | Fighter planes--American--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,696 × 3,781 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220674 |
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