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- OBJECT TYPE
- FLASH/AIRCRAFT SILHOUETTE
- DATE
- 1939–1945
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2007.0024.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Plane Facts Co.
- MODEL
- Plane Packet
- LOCATION
- New York, New York, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- Flash Cards/Plane Facts
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- paper cards; card stock box
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 12.8 cm
- Width
- 8.0 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- 2.0 cm
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Archives
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- PLANE
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New York
- City
- New York
Context
- Country
- Europe
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- WWII (1939-1945)
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
adaped for instruction of ground observers of the Aircraft Warning Service in England, but likely used by other service branches where accurate identification of friendly & enemy aircraft was critical/ contained photographic image, silhouette drawings & descriptive text on U.S. Army, Navy, british, German & Japanese combat airplanes - Technical
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Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- lettering on box reads: "PLANE/PACKET/FLASH CARDS/A series of/Photographs and Silhouettes/adapted for Instruction/of Ground Observers/of the Aircraft Warning/Service/Price 75c/56 Official Photographs/reproduced with/Identification Silhouettes/of U.S. Army, Navy, British, German/and Japanese Combat Planes/Plane Facts Co. New York, N.Y./Printed in U.S.A."
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- box has dark blue & yellow lettering & graphics on tan background; cards have b + w images & black text on white background
- Decoration
- silhouette image of airplane (possibly Avro Lancaster heavy bomber) on both sides of box
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Plane Facts Co., Card collection, between 1939–1945, Artifact no. 2007.0024, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2007.0024.001/
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