Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1949.068.0467

Description

Plane Crash #63. Update 2008: Black and white print, snapshot. Image from above the crash of a bi-plane (two-winged aircraft) in a ravine on a snow-covered hillside. Bare bushes in foreground. Three men on the plane, behind the wing. A fourth man appears to be taking a photograph in upper right. Written on the emulsion in the lower left in black marked:"2". Mounted with 1949.068.0466 and 1949.068.0468 on a piece of orange cardboard. Badly wrinkled and distorted from adhesive. Upper left corner had been bent, emulsion cracked. Right edge cut and irregular. Soiled. Overall size 10 1/4 x 5 5/8". Written on the back of the cardboard in black ink: "1 cut 85 screen double column x 8 inches". Written on the back of the cardboard in pencil: "5900/2" See also 1949.068.0463

Collection

Photograph Collection