Austrian Airlines Flugzeugtypen 1958-1971
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Object Details
- Sponsor
- Austrian Airlines
- Manufacturer
- Gerstmayer Ges. m.b.H.
- Physical Description
- Flugzeugtypen; Relief Halftone/Screen print. Images of airplanes flown by Austrian Airlines from 1958 to 1971 flying above the clouds in a blue sky; VV 779 Vickers Viscount, (1958-1960), registration number OE-LAE; VV 837 Vickers Viscount, (1960-1971), registration number OE-IAM; VV 837 Vickers Viscount, registration number OE-LAH; VV 837 Vickers Viscount, registration number OE-LAK;
- VV 745 Vickers Viscount, (1961-1963), registration number OE-LAN; Douglas DC-3, (1963-1966), registration number OE-LBD; Hawker-Sidley HS 748-2, registration number OE-LHS; Aero Commander 680 FL, (1966-1969) registration number OE-FAV; Sud-Aviation SE.210 Caravelle VIR, (1963-1972), registration number OE-LCA; Boeing B-707-329, (1969-1971), registration number OE-LBA; shows change in logo through the years. Partial text: "Austrian Airlines Flugzeugtypen 1958-1971"
- Summary
- Fly Now: The National Air and Space Museum Poster Collection
- Throughout their history, posters have been a significant means of mass communication, often with striking visual effect. Wendy Wick Reaves, the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery Curator of Prints and Drawings, comments that "sometimes a pictorial poster is a decorative masterpiece-something I can't walk by without a jolt of aesthetic pleasure. Another might strike me as extremely clever advertising … But collectively, these 'pictures of persuasion,' as we might call them, offer a wealth of art, history, design, and popular culture for us to understand. The poster is a familiar part of our world, and we intuitively understand its role as propaganda, promotion, announcement, or advertisement."
- Reaves' observations are especially relevant for the impressive array of aviation posters in the National Air and Space Museum's 1300+ artifact collection. Quite possibly the largest publicly-held collection of its kind in the United States, the National Air and Space Museum's posters focus primarily on advertising for aviation-related products and activities. Among other areas, the collection includes 19th-century ballooning exhibition posters, early 20th-century airplane exhibition and meet posters, and twentieth-century airline advertisements.
- The posters in the collection represent printing technologies that include original lithography, silkscreen, photolithography, and computer-generated imagery. The collection is significant both for its aesthetic value and because it is a unique representation of the cultural, commercial and military history of aviation. The collection represents an intense interest in flight, both public and private, during a significant period of its technological and social development.
- 1971
- Inventory Number
- A19900799000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ART-Posters, Original Art Quality
- Medium
- Poster, Advertising, Commercial Aviation
- Dimensions
- 2-D - Unframed (H x W): 83.8 × 59.4cm (2 ft. 9 in. × 1 ft. 11 3/8 in.)
- Country of Origin
- Austria
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19900799000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9c97446c2-f177-4d73-93b8-ff9c0f157a38
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