Tags | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 14 objects tagged airplanes.

Data visualization of air traffic paths over North America during a 24-hour period.

Data Visualization, Flight Patterns, 2005–08
video made with processing, adobe after effects, maya.
Gift of Aaron Koblin.
2014-41-1

This object is part of the Digital collection.
There are 3 images and 1 video of this object.

Large structure with four observation decks, signal towers center.

Print, Proposal for Airline Terminal, ca. 1952
photostat on sensitized paper.
Gift of Mrs. Hugh Ferriss.
1964-5-17

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

The paper contains just a little more than one vignette shows a battle scene, containing an airplane, cannons and soldiers. Printed in polychrome on a gray ingrain paper.

Sidewall, after 1914
machine-printed on paper.
Gift of Michael Bennett Levinson.
2000-25-7

This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

This Soviet film poster for the German 1927 movie "Die Symphonie der Grossstadt" ["Symphony of a Metropolis"], depicts a mechanical man composed of a head with a movie camera for one eye, a watch on his neck, with one arm typing on a typewriter and the other arm in the form of a pen. This figure is placed in front of a flat and tilted skyscraper. The title of the film, in red, runs diagonally along the lower edge while the movie credits in white parallel the diagonal building.

Poster, Symphony of a Big City, 1928
lithograph on off-white wove paper.
Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Council and General Acquisitions....
2008-1-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Children's or nursery paper, showing images of airplanes, Citroen tanks, battle ships, figures and tropical foliage. Printed in white on a deep blue ground.

Sidewall (France), 1923
block printed on paper.
Gift of Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan.
1930-21-1-f

This object was made by Pierre Chareau.
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Children's wallpaper containing various styles of airplanes. The airplanes are white with red accents printed on a blue ground.

Sidewall - Sample, Wings Over America, 1946
machine-printed paper.
Gift of Henry H. Allman.
1947-81-5

This object was made by United Wallpaper, Inc..
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Spanish Civil War poster. Five photographic views of facilities for refugee children; left margin pictures a woman with child on lap. Across the top of the poster: Residencias; below: SON TRATADOS MATERNALMENTE / LOS MEJORES HOTELES SON / HABILITADOS PARA RESIDENCIA / DE LOS NIÑOS REFUGIOS. (Residences are treated with motherly care, the best hotels are enabled as residences for refugee children)

Poster, Residencias (Residences), 1930s
lithograph on paper.
Gift of William P. Mangold.
1997-21-7

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Cylindrical, loop handle; with image of airplane and "1923/1963" on one side, "Aeroflot" (in Russian) on other side.

Aeroflot 1923-1963 Mug, 1963
porcelain, enamel, gilding.
The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase....
1989-41-110

This object was made by Lomonosov Porcelain Factory.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

A group of three children in the center of a grassy lawn with a large shadow of a swastika looming over them. One of the boy stands while holding a toy plane while another in a paper hat holds up an American flag. A girl sits in front of them, holding a doll. In the lower margin is the text, "Don't Let That Shadow Touch Them / Buy WAR BONDS."

Poster, Don't Let That Shadow Touch Them, 1942
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Louise Clémencon.
1949-108-8

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Poster depicts several overlapping circles in black, brown, and gray; and a plane flying through them. Above, text in Russian; center: astrodynamics; lower margin: GENERAL DYNAMICS.

Poster, Atoms for Peace, General Dynamics, 1955
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Arthur Cohen and Daryl Otte in memory of Bill Moggridge.
2013-42-11

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Batik mural with a portrait of Jessica Dragonette, soprano and radio star, in the center, standing on a globe with lines of music radiating out in all directions behind her. The mural also includes the Original WJZ 500 Watt Transmitter Newark NJ, the City Service Broadcast over NBC, Radio City Music Hall, a portrait of Marconi, broadcasting to Byrd at the South Pole, an Armistice Day address from Arlington National Cemetery, zeppelins, airplanes, and skyscrapers, amid symbols of music and theater. A portrait of the artist, Arthur Gordon Smith, appears in the lower left corner.

Mural, The World of Radio, 1934
cotton.
Gift of Nicholas Meredith Turner in memory of Jessica Dragonette..
1983-73-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.

Smithsonian poster featuring silhouettes of military aircraft, with descriptions of each below.

Poster, Friend? Or Foe?, 1976
screenprint on metallic coated paper.
Gift of Various Donors.
1981-29-153

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Woman's wrapper consisting of eight 5 1/2 inch wide strips of handwoven cotton, sewn together to make a panel. The center field is divided into six squares separated by bands of H-shaped "airplane" motifs. Each square is patterned with incomplete diamonds with a dot in the center, radiating out from a center dot in a petal-like arrangement. The outer and lower borders use the same motifs as the center field. The upper border (when worn, seen here on the left) has scattered white dots. The inner border (when worn) interlocking triangles. With guard borders of narrow zigzags. Design is reserved in white on a dyed brownish-black ground.

Bogolanfini Woman's Wrapper (Mali), mid-20th century
cotton.
Museum purchase from The Grodzins Fund for Textile Acquisition.
2000-22-2

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Landscape frieze, containing two separate borders on top and bottom. The top border is mainly a landscape design with trees in foreground, hills in background, with meandering river running amidst peninsulas. The bottom frieze contains a boat in the river and an automobile in the foreground, with an airplane flying overhead. Printed in greens, browns, and red on tan ground.

Frieze (USA), 1905–1915
machine-printed paper.
Gift of Victorian Collectibles.
1979-91-437

This object was made by Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co..
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 2 images of this object.