Bleriot's Accident at Reims - Public domain portrait photograph
A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Eshault-Pelterie aeroplane, in flight
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More
Paulhan and Hamilton aeroplanes in flight, Los Angeles
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Alexander Graham Bell papers - Photograph, undated
Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lesh trying his aeroplane, pulled by an auto
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Oppose secrecy on aid given by U.S. to French air mission. Washington,...
A black and white photo of two men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Latham aeroplane, on flying field
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
At Nice, Chaues machine after the accident. Two men at the left are ph...
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More
Delagrange in his aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Latham, Graham White i.e., Claude Grahame-White
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Full name in title from Merriam-Webster's bi... More
[1903 machine on the launching track at Big Kill Devil Hill, prior to ...
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 56. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More
[Wilbur and Orville Wright with their second powered machine; Huffman ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Side view of flight 45, Orville flying to the right close to the grou...
Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More
[Front view of flight 41, Orville flying to the left at a height of ab...
Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More
O. Wright flying [airplane] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[The Silver Dart, one of the Aerial Experiment Association's early air...
In album: "Photographs, Laboratory Copy 1908." Penned at lower left of photographic print: "Copyright 09 Burner[?]." Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Fa... More
[Arch Hoxsey at controls, with Gov. Charles Samuel Deneen, John McCreb...
Copyright by F.L. Vermillion, Springfield, Ill. Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Meckler-Allen Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
W.R. Kimball & aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photo shows Wilbur R. Kimball (d. 1940), aviation pioneer, inventor, airplane builder and pilot who was also the Secretary of the Aeronautic Society of New York. Photograph was taken at the Nassau Boulevard Ae... More
J.E. Harriman's Aerocar, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photo shows patent drawing of John Emery Harriman. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service ... More
Hammond Flying Machine, George Grantham Bain Collection
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More
Sopwith & Mrs. Chudoba, woman passenger
Photo shows aviator Thomas Sopwith (1888-1989) in an airplane. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date from data provided by t... More
German air-plane displayed to the crowd at Salonika
Filed in: Greece General. No. 3824. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.
National Airport. Control tower and landing strip at National Airport
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tip Schier and his NU-PRO airplane before leaving to break the world's...
Photograph shows Tip Schier sitting inside airplane with crowd gathered closely around; unidentified man adjusts watch on Schier's wrist. Copyrighted by Gildersleeve, Waco.
Airplanes. Eastern Lines plane I
Public domain photograph of midcentury American aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Smithsonian Institution interiors. Spirit of St. Louis in the Smithson...
Public domain photograph of midcentury American aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Smithsonian Institution interiors. Spirit of St. Louis in the Smithson...
Public domain photograph of midcentury American aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Working on a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
Public domain photograph related to navy, naval warfare, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
He's like to use that gun on the Axis. After seven years in the Navy, ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Washington, D.C. Making model airplanes for U.S. Navy at the Armstrong...
Public domain photograph related to the United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Production. Airplanes. Atop the water tower of a huge Western airplane...
Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rochester, New York. Earl and Howard Babcock looking over one of the m...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Four P-51 Mustangs flying in formation. Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945]
Also available as contact sheet in LOT 12447-1. Forms part of: Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress).
Elmendorf Field, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska
Photograph shows dog sled and team of dogs next to military airplane. In album: Scenic Alaska. Elmendorf Field, 1946. Courtesy of Alaska Air Depot, p. 14.
[Airfield near San Antonio] - Public domain dedication image
Forms part of John J. Pershing Collection. Title based on similarity to panorama 3 in this lot. Photographer's address and phone number: 522 Mason St., San Antonio, Texas. Travis 5384. Transfer; LC Manuscript D... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Seaplane Runway, Southern tip of Ford I...
Significance: It is associated with the establishment of Naval Air Station facilities on Ford Island in the 1920s. It reflects the Navy's use of seaplanes during this era of early aviation. Facility No. S360, c... More
Progress in flying machines,
This volume contains research that originally appeared in The Railroad and Engineering Journal between 1891 and 1893. In it, the distinguished French-born aviation pioneer Octave Chanute analyzed virtually ever... More
Progress in flying machines,
This volume contains research that originally appeared in The Railroad and Engineering Journal between 1891 and 1893. In it, the distinguished French-born aviation pioneer Octave Chanute analyzed virtually ever... More
Progress in flying machines,
This volume contains research that originally appeared in The Railroad and Engineering Journal between 1891 and 1893. In it, the distinguished French-born aviation pioneer Octave Chanute analyzed virtually ever... More
Progress in flying machines,
This volume contains research that originally appeared in The Railroad and Engineering Journal between 1891 and 1893. In it, the distinguished French-born aviation pioneer Octave Chanute analyzed virtually ever... More
City of New York municipal airports No. 1 Floyd Bennett Field - No. 2 ...
Poster promoting New York's municipal airports, Floyd Bennett Field and North Beach, East River Seaplane bases, Wall Street and 31st Street, showing airplane and seaplane.
City Hall Park panorama, Panoramic Photograph
Copyright deposit; Irving Underhill. Copyright claimant's address: New York. No. M-48. This image is a copy photograph of item no. 8 in this LOT. Airplanes in sky and tall building at right spliced into negative.
Bernasconi aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Deck of "Pennsylvania" showing Curtiss biplane
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
LeBlanc's "Bleriot" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Paulhan and flying machine in flight, Rheims
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial photographs - Hanriot monoplane
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
C.K. Hamilton flying - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, aeronautics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Harmon aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Paulhan aeroplane taking off, Los Angeles, Calif
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More
An Aerial honeymoon invented and patented by John F. Byrne : funniest ...
Caption: A compartment for two. Passengers making it lively for the old bridegroom on his wedding trip. Created by "National Prtg. & Engr., New York, Chicago, St. Louis. No. 06947. Forms part of: Theatrical pos... More
[Flight 23: front view of the machine in flight to the right, Orville ...
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More
O. Wright and aeroplane, in flight
Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, aeronautics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Farman flying machine, in flight
Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, aeronautics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Blériot's monoplane at Reims]. Photo by Bain News Service collection
George Grantham Bain Collection.
Grahame White's Nieuport monoplane
Photo shows English aviator Claude Grahame-White (1879-1959). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Meckler-Allen Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Caricature, A trip to Diana / Glackens., public domain cartoon image
Illustration shows a man in a "Taxiplane" hanging onto the coattails of a well-dressed man wearing a top hat who has leaped from the taxi to grab ahold of a nude statue of Diana atop a building. Caption: Popul... More
[Close-up view of airplane, including the pilot and passenger seats]
Title based on reference print. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LOT 11512. Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Latham flying over the Golden Gate
J151342 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Pacific Photo & Art Co., S.F.
The Detroit news timely topics. Launching aeroplane in catapult test
Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aeroplanes and transportation, 1st Aero Squadron, Ft. Sam Houston, Tex...
J211398 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; C. L. Steinle; February 23, 1916.
Your opportunity to learn a trade Join the Air Service, United States ...
U.S. Army Air Service recruiting poster showing men on an airfield with airplanes flying overhead, and six halftone illustrations of classrooms for the "welding department, motor transport department, practical... More
"Question Mark" plane refueling over Imperial Valley
Photograph shows a fuel line stretched between two airplanes in mid flight; one plane has a question mark painted on its side and the other has the number one. "Erickson 6337." Similar to photo with copy negat... More
[Herbert Hoover and group with toy airplanes at White House, Washingto...
Public domain photograph of White House, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Smithsonian Institution Building. Spirit of St. Louis exhibit, Smithso...
Public domain photograph of history of technology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, flight, airplane, aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine
Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Rows of airplanes on an air field surrounded by grasslands and mounta...
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Seaplane Runway, Southern tip of Ford I...
Significance: It is associated with the establishment of Naval Air Station facilities on Ford Island in the 1920s. It reflects the Navy's use of seaplanes during this era of early aviation. Facility No. S360, c... More
Progress in flying machines,
This volume contains research that originally appeared in The Railroad and Engineering Journal between 1891 and 1893. In it, the distinguished French-born aviation pioneer Octave Chanute analyzed virtually ever... More
Progress in flying machines,
This volume contains research that originally appeared in The Railroad and Engineering Journal between 1891 and 1893. In it, the distinguished French-born aviation pioneer Octave Chanute analyzed virtually ever... More
Progress in flying machines,
This volume contains research that originally appeared in The Railroad and Engineering Journal between 1891 and 1893. In it, the distinguished French-born aviation pioneer Octave Chanute analyzed virtually ever... More
Eshault-Pelterie aeroplane, in flight
Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, aeronautics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Clement-Bayard after collapse & fall
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
H.C. Cooke in Curtis biplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
J.C. Mars in Curtiss Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Claude] Grahame-White's wrecked machine towed back, Bain News Service...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Deck of "Pennsylvania" showing the Curtiss biplane
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Latham. Plane flying. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brookins and Coffyn flying - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Paulham's aeroplane, George Grantham Bain Collection
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More
L.G. Bergdoll's aeroplane in hangar
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More
Arrival Moissant's aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Orville piloting the third flight of December 17, 1903; Kitty Hawk, N...
Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Long-range view of machine on launching track, probably Wilbur and Or...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Exhibit of early aircraft, probably at Smithsonian Institution]
Airplanes are seen indoors, in hangar-like structure. No. 7832. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).
Aeroplane of Dr. Greene, on ground
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Farman flying machine, in flight
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Blériot's flight at Rheims. Photo by Bain News Service collection
George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bleriot, in workshop, in his flying machine
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The old and the new / BBaker. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Illustration shows the new year, "1911", arriving by airplane, while on the ground Father Time looks aghast at the airplane overhead and the wreck of his automobile labeled "1910".
[Distant view of Bishop Milton Wright during his first ride in an airp...
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 39. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More
Meckler-Allen Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lincoln Beachy aloft - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Vedrines wins international cup
Photo shows French aviator Jules Vedrines turning the pylon in the James Gordon Bennett Cup Race, Chicago, Illinois. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from negative. Ge... More
For the sunny South. An airship with a "Jim Crow" trailer
Caricature showing an airplane with white people, towing a blimp with a platform on which are seated African Americans. Color halftone repro. of drawing signed in lower left Erhart, copyrighted by Keppler & Sch... More
National Aeronautic Association of the United States of America. Plane...
Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More
Memorial Bridge. Airplanes in flight over Memorial Bridge I
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.