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OBJECT TYPE: N/A
DATE: 1942
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2001.0583.001

MANUFACTURER: Royal Canadian Air Force
MODEL: High Flight
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: card stock

Dimensions

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Length: 29.5 cm
Width: 22.7 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Aviation
Category: Archives
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Booth
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
Period: WWII (1939-1945); John Magee composed the poem "High Flight" in Sept. 1941, the original of the lithograph on which it is superimposed was painted by H.H. Booth in 1943; the date this print was produced is unknown
Canada: the author of the poem, Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr., was an American citizen who served in the RCAF from Sept. 1940 to Dec. 1941; the Artist H.H. Booth who painted the original painting was a member of the RCAF
Function: inspiration; souvenir; display
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: lettering (poem) reads: "High Flight/Pilot Officer John G. Magee, Jr./Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth/And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;/Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth/Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things/You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung/High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there/I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung/My eager craft through footless halls of air./Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue/I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace/Where never lark, nor even eagle flew -/And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod/The high untrespassed sanctity of space/Put out my hand and touched the face of God."; singature near bottom right of canvas reads: "H.H. Booth, RCAF '43"
Missing: N/A
Finish: colour print & insignia; poem in black lettering
Decoration: RCAF insignia near top left; image of Supermarine Spitfire in flight 3/4 view near lower right

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Royal Canadian Air Force, Print, after 1942, Artifact no. 2001.0583, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2001.0583.001/

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