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Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Alfred T. Palmer  (1906–1993)  wikidata:Q2895582
 
Alfred T. Palmer
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 17 March 1906 Edit this at Wikidata 31 January 1993 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death San Jose Edit this at Wikidata Larkspur Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q2895582
Title
Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
Description
English: U.S. Army Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, a test pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, stands in front of a Wright R-2600 Twin Cyclone engine of a Douglas A-20 Havoc twin-engine bomber at the Douglas plant in Long Beach, California in October 1942.
Date October 1942
date QS:P571,+1942-10-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium 1 transparency : color.
Accession number
  • Call Number: LC-USW36-132 <P&P>[P&P]
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-fsac-1a35358 (digital file from original transparency)
  • LC-USW361-132 (color film copy slide)
  • CARD #: fsa1992001602/PP
Notes
  • B&w photograph in Lot 12002-39.
  • Transfer; FSA-OWI; 1944.
Source
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID fsac.1a35358.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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  • Minor brightness, contrast and color balance adjustments
  • Downsample 37.5%
  • Converted to jpg, 8/10 progressive 5 scans

Licensing

Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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Test pilot stands in front of a Douglas A-20 Havoc

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current09:52, 27 March 2007Thumbnail for version as of 09:52, 27 March 20072,400 × 3,100 (1.33 MB)TrialsanderrorsMinor cleanup
09:17, 12 February 2007Thumbnail for version as of 09:17, 12 February 20072,400 × 3,100 (4.41 MB)TrialsanderrorsSelective sharpening
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12:37, 7 February 2007Thumbnail for version as of 12:37, 7 February 20072,400 × 3,100 (4.34 MB)TrialsanderrorsLarge size version taken from original tiff
21:59, 13 November 2006Thumbnail for version as of 21:59, 13 November 2006712 × 915 (113 KB)TrialsanderrorsCrop for equal size with Image:Lt_Mike_Hunter_2.jpg
18:53, 13 November 2006Thumbnail for version as of 18:53, 13 November 2006716 × 921 (117 KB)Trialsanderrors{{PD-LOC}} TITLE: Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. CALL NUMBER: LC-USW36-132 <P&P>[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-fsac-1a35358 (digital file from original transparency) LC-USW361-132 (col

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