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Arts & Humanities, Film & Movies, Libraries, Travel

Free to Use and Reuse: Aircraft! | Library of Congress Blog

February 14, 2022 by, Neely Tucker

 All-Story Magazine, cover, Oct. 1908.Artist: Harry Grant Dart. Prints and Photographs Division.

The Library’s Free to Use and Reuse copyright-free prints and photographs are among the most popular items in the Library’s vast collections.

They’re great images from days gone by and they’re yours for free!

You can check out the pictures in travel posters, autumn and halloween, weddings, movie palaces and dozens more. You can download them, make posters for your home or wallpapers for your phone.

Let’s check out a few from our aircraft collection. As the 1908 illustration above shows, we have a very liberal definition of “aircraft.”

A Pan American travel poster from the late 1940s. Artist: Mark von Arenburg. Prints and Photographs Division.

This contraption, with a nattily-attired couple purring through the heavens, appears to be akin to a two-seater convertible with wings, perched below a zeppelin. Our heroine has taken the wheel and her gentleman companion is, no doubt, mansplaining how to Fly This Danged Thing.

Source: Free to Use and Reuse: Aircraft! | Library of Congress Blog

Current Affairs

Idiot president fails again, FAA

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So, it seems the man who doesn’t (or can’t read), denies climate change, doesn’t believe in science or reason or USA intelligence agencies.. has stopped jets from flying in our country.

The FAA is another agency this idiot man has corrupted, and made a joke around the world.

He did this to jump into the public eye, pretend he’s “leading,” pretend he’s in charge.

Another failure along the road to the worst presidency in our history, and destined to end in 2020 will the election of a real President, a real leader…

Libraries, Travel

A Century of Air Travel in Pictures | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

“It’s that time of year when many of us are getting ready to head to the airport and hop on a plane en route to family and friends for the holidays. Air travel, like many modern conveniences, is a perk easy to take for granted despite its relatively short history. A visual trip through the collections of the Prints & Photographs Division illustrates some of the developments in air travel over the past century.”

Source: A Century of Air Travel in Pictures | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos