Friday Find

For posts related to hidden objects, collections or what not being featured on Fridays.

UPDATE I received an email and photo from Jack Herris from the League of WWI Aviation Historians who said: The Curtiss HS-2L was converted from the earlier Curtiss HS-1L by inserting a 6-foot wing panel between the wing center section and outer wing panels to increase wing span and area […]
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Curtiss HS2; airplane; WWI
As we here at the Connecticut State Library delve deeper into our collections we continue to find some really cool stuff. While we would love to do long posts about lots of these items, we’d never get anything else done if we did. So we’ll be highlighting some of what we […]

Friday Finds

 in Friday Find  tagged aeroplanes / aviation / flying boats
WWI
I’ve been reading a lot about the art of World War I lately. From the recent article about Smithsonian’s WWI art collections to the 800,000 red poppies at the Tower of London to the WWI Memorial Inventory project to the Imperial War Museums Google Art Collection, the art of WWI is everywhere. […]

Art of War

 in Friday Find  tagged art / homefront