
“This woman can fly!” (vintage photograph of woman diver in mid-air, late 1910s, photographer’s stamp on verso reads: “Moebus, Franz-Körner-Straße”) |source eBay
images that haunt us


“Ameila Earhart Embarking on Her Round-the-World Flight.”
Amelia Earhart’s airplane, the Flying Laboratory, shown over the Golden Gate Bridge after taking off from Oakland, California, at the start of her round-the-world flight.
Uncredited photographer (INS). 17 March, 1937. / src:

“Aerial Daredevils Performing Two Miles Up”. Aerial daredevils Wesley May and Clarence Dragunier perform their stunts two miles above the New York countryside.
Uncredited photographer.
International Newsreel Photo. 5 January, 1929. / src: Univ. of Texas

Bird in the Sky | src: Hilde Everaert on FB

Unidentified photographer, German Graf Zeppelin flies over St. Paul’s Cathedral while on a press visit to London, 1930. Gelatin silver print, National Archives. / src: luminous-lint

Konrad Brandel :: Self-portrait in a balloon gondola, ca. 1865. Albumen print. Creative Commons – National Museum, Warsaw. / via Luminous-lint

Benjamin J. Falk :: Mrs Charles Watson, 1884 (Cabinet card) / source: luminous-lint.