Lithographic poster for the 1939 New York World's Fair, circa 1939. Features the Trylon and Perisphere, as well as buildings, aircraft, a train, and a ship. Designed by artist Joseph Binder, produced by the Grinnell Litho. Company.
Text: "New York…
Color drawing (photomechanical print) of an aerial view of Lower Manhattan as seen from an American Airlines airliner, circa 1940. Art by Ivan Dmitri, produced by American Airlines.
Photograph of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" parked at an air base, circa 1940s. The image is signed by Theodore Jerome "Dutch" Van Kirk, navigator of the "Enola Gay" during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6,…
Original drawing of a U.S. Army Air Forces Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft firing its guns, 1940s.
Text: "Lightning strikes the Axis. The Army Air Forces salute your 3-to-1 victories."
Poster of a smiling serviceman in a U.S. Army uniform, circa 1941. Illustration by artist Tom B. Woodburn.
Text: "Soldiers' life. Make the Regular Army your career."
Lithograph of a Brewster F2A Buffalo aircraft in flight over a Batavian farmer and his oxen, circa 1941-1942. Art by Jo Kotula, produced by the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation.
Lithograph of a Brewster F2A Buffalo aircraft in flight over a Pan American Airways Boeing Model 314 Clipper flying boat and a junk ship, circa 1941-1942. Art by Jo Kotula, produced by the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation.