[Pilot being strapped into plane cockpit]

[Pilot being strapped into plane cockpit]

Photograph

Edward Steichen

Maker
American, b. Luxembourg, 1879–1973

[Pilot being strapped into plane cockpit]

ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 7/8 × 7 5/8 in. (20 × 19.4 cm)
Paper: 9 7/8 × 8 1/8 in. (25.1 × 20.6 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0259
Inscriptions Written in pencil on verso, TC: TR-11586
Printed in blue ink on verso, TC:

File No. TR-11586
NAVY PILOT - Skipper of one carrier's flying men aboard a first line carrier, having his
flight gear adjusted by his plane captain.

(This is print No. 6 in the U.S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Maseum of
Modern Art, New York City.)

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