Photoprints
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Nickse, Hugo
label: Collection Donor
content: Johnson, Hanford
label: Collection Creator
content: Comstock, Cheney and Co.
label: Collection Creator
content: Pratt, Read and Company
label: Collection Donor
content: Steinway, Henry Ziegler
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content: Pratt, Read Corporation Records
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content: Pratt, Read Corporation Records / Series 4: Gould Aeronautical Division
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0320, Subseries 4.5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The PHOTOPRINTS, 1942-1945, are arranged according to type of glider.  They document, in detail, all stages of production, assembly, flight testing, and shipment of the gliders, especially the CG 4As.  Some of the photographs were taken at one of the other factories that produced CG 4A gliders, while others, supplied by the Army, show CG 4As, CG 3As, and CG 13s in service.  Several photographs of paintings done by a local artist show the Pratt, Read factory and the CG 4A assembly line in action; the originals of these paintings remain in the possession of the Pratt Read Corporation.  Of additional interest are several photographs relating to the first transatlantic glider crossing, which took place in July 1943.