Object Details
- Physical Description
- Black metal with handles and wooden drawer in bottom (film holder). No lens.
- Summary
- Air racer and showman Roscoe Turner probably acquired this French camera when he was a balloon pilot in the Aviation Section in France in 1918-19. The hand-held camera was used to take promotional aerial photographs of Turner's 1920s barnstorming act and to take commercial photographs by aiming over the side of an open-cockpit airplane.
- Credit Line
- Donated by the Estate of Roscoe Turner
- Inventory Number
- A19730912000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Photographic
- Country of Origin
- France
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Hangar
- Boeing Aviation Hangar
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19730912000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9f662f66d-ab76-43de-9d17-ffff00967d3d
