With Wings as Eagles…
From Fantasy to Flight
Selected images from the Library of Congress
documenting the history of flight…
Humorous portrayal of a man who flies with wings attached to his tunic…
The "Aerocar" …
Aeronautics …
Airship Hindenberg …
Collecting cards with pictures of events in
ballooning history from 1795 to 1846 …
Alan Shepard being hauled into helicopter
after landing his space capsule…
American Clipper…
Balloons, airships and other flying machines
designed with some form of propulsion …
Charles Lindbergh, adjusting parachute before testing
Sergeant Bell's experimental plane…
Charles H. Kabrich, the only bike-chute
aeronaut…
DeBothezat helicopter descending for a
landing …
Dies - mythological portrait of Icarus falling from the
Flugmaschine…
Ford's flying flivver arrives in Washington
…
Flying Wing XB-35 …
Air-balloons …
Giant Caproni seaplane
…
Glenn Martin debarking "China Clipper" for 25th
anniversary of his flight to Catalina …
Collecting cards with pictures of events in
ballooning history from 1783 to 1883…
The Hughes Flying-boat seaplane under
construction…
The hydro-"Fabre“ – the first apparatus to take off from
water …
Arnold Coblitz in his ornithopter in Czechoslovakia
…
The coming mode of travel, Prof. Harriman's Steam Air-
The Stride of a Century…
Voyage a la lune
…
Wilbur Wright examining canoe attachment to aeroplane
before 1st flight over water …
Will Rogers at Fairbanks, Alaska
…
Ayres' new aerial machine
…
Lamson's Air Ship Kite ascending with passenger
…
First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.;
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina …
With Wings as Eagles: From Fantasy to Flight
Object List
Slide 1 – Title slide (thumbnails of three images in slide show)
Slide 2 - Humorous portrayal of a man who flies with wings attached to his tunic (between 1800 and 1830)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a15086))+@field(COLLID+tisc))
Slide 3 - The "Aerocar," a flying automobile, manufactured in the U.S (1957)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b36052))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 4 - Aeronautics / drawn by Joseph Clement ; engraved by A.W. Warren & J. Davis. (1818)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a17987))+@field(COLLID+tisc))
Slide 5 - Airship Hindenberg over ocean; deck of ocean liner in foreground (1936)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b17565))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 6 - Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1795 to 1846
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsca+02561))+@field(COLLID+tisc))
Slide 7 - Alan Shepard being hauled into helicopter after landing his space capsule in the water near the U.S.S.
Champlain (1961)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c21452))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 8 - American Clipper. r (c. 1920-1950)
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Slide 9 - Balloons, airships, and other flying machines designed with some form of propulsion (1885-1904)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a33639))+@field(COLLID+tisc))
Slide 10 - Charles Lindbergh, adjusting parachute before testing Sergeant Bell's experimental plane, 1925.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c06825))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 11 - Chas. H. Kabrich, the only bike-chute aeronaut novel and thrilling, bicycle parachute act in mid-air. (1896)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/var:@field(NUMBER+@band(var+0525))
Slide 12 - The DeBothezat helicopter descending for a landing at Cook Field, Dayton, Ohio, Dec.18, 1922
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b39747))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 13 - Dies - Print portrays mythological portrait of Icarus showing him falling from the sky (1600s)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsca+03475))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 14 - Flugmaschine. Erfunden von Jacob Degen in Wien, 1807 / Jos. Belbing, s.c. (1810)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a15091))+@field(COLLID+tisc))
Slide 15 - Ford's flying flivver arrives in Washington (1928)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c12940))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 16 - Flying Wing XB-35 (1946)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a06861))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 17 - Air-balloons / A. Bell, sculpt. (1784)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-
bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsca+02501))+@field(COLLID+tisc))
Slide 18 - Giant Caproni seaplane, with eight Liberty 400-hp motors (c.1921)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a18051))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 19 - Glenn Martin debarking "China Clipper" for 25th anniversary of his flight to Catalina
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c02988))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 20 - Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1783 to 1883
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-
bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsca+3a15090))+@field(COLLID+tisc))
Slide 21 - The Hughes Flying-boat seaplane under construction at its dock in Long Beach, Calif.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c24393))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 22 - The hydro-"Fabre", first apparatus to take off from water, March 28, 1910
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c00561))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 23 - Arnold Coblitz in ornithopter in Czechoslovakia (no date)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a18030))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 24 - "The coming mode of travel, Prof. Harriman's Steam Air-Ship" (1890s)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b52074))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 25 - The Stride of a century (1876)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c06472))+@field(COLLID+pga))
Slide 26 - Voyage a la lune (1865 – 1870)
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bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsca+02337))+@field(COLLID+tisc))
Slide 27 - Wilbur Wright examining canoe attachment to aeroplane before 1st flight over water (1909)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-
bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b25549))+@field(COLLID+ggbain))
Slide 28 - Will Rogers (1935)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b05600))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 29 – Ayres’ new aerial machine (1895)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3b11629))+@field(COLLID+cph))
Slide 30 - Lamson's Air Ship Kite ascending with passenger (1897)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a09899))+@field(COLLID+cph))