Check Out New National Air and Space Museum Photos
As my colleague Effie mentioned back in April, the Smithsonian has been working hard to provide the public with a way to search across the Smithsonian’s diverse digital collections. New photographs are being added to this search engine, the Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center, all the time.
Most recently, some of the National Air and Space Museum’s collections were added, and you can now search and browse through over 300 of their photographs here.
The photos, as shown in a slideshow sampling below, reflect the broad interests of NASM. I found some gems when I searched through, including photos of kids horsing around on a crop dusting helicopter (note the “Danger” and “Keep Away” warnings); an early rocket bomb; a happy family living it up in first class seats with an enviable amount of leg room; and two stunt flyers who set a women's refueling endurance record all while advertising Outdoor Girl cosmetics!
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Thanks for the tip - these are great shots and the Collections Search Center is an amazing resource.
How great to be sitting in Manhattan, looking at pictures archived in DC, and coming across photographs of Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, which was very close to where I grew up, but was mysterious and mostly off limits. Also, those pictures of rocket bomb shells manufactured by the Reactive Shell Co. are fantastic to see. Their elegance, and the repetition of shapes from one to the next remind me of Georgio Morandi's obsessive paintings of bottles. The subject, of course, is something else...
Awesome pictures. You just don't find gems like this around any more. I will most definitely be spending some more time going through the rest of the pictures. Thank you!
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