Recently, the Library of Congress blog site featured the Free to Reuse and utilize collection everything about aircraft. After reading that post I lost a good twenty of minutes of my day scrolling through the collection and stopping to check out a bit about a few of the more interesting pictures and illustrations. A few that stood out to me were the Farman Flying Machine (the included image in this post), the Berliner Helicopter, and Professor Lowe in His Balloon. All three of them made me think, “I d have never gotten in that thing!”

The Library of Congress is an excellent place to discover historic pictures, drawings, and maps to utilize in lesson plans and classroom jobs. Finding things on the Library of Congress site isnt constantly simple if simply use the search function. The
LOCs Free to Use and Reuse Sets make it much easier to discover thematically arranged collections of image and illustrations that you can download and use totally free.

Applications for Education

A comparable set of LOC Free to Use and Reuse images sparked my creativity last summer season and triggered me to make some vintage travel posters with Canva. You can check out about that right here.

The images in this collection could be terrific for bringing an element of history into a physics lesson about airplane. Some of the images of wing-walkers may spark questions like, “how quick were they flying?” and “whats the slowest the airplane could go while still flying forward without losing elevation?”