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Photo (detail):
Tom Hadfield
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"History's First Scheduled Airline Passenger Arrives in Tampa"
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| 1939 |
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Mural,
oil on canvas
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| 12'6" x 32' |
| George Snow Hill
, painter
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| Program: WPA Federal Art Project (WPA-FAP) |
| Location: Airside E |
| In the late 1930's, local artist George Snow Hill was commissioned to create these murals to adorn the walls of Tampa's newly built Peter O. Knight Airport. Hill artistically interpreted the history of flight through the contributions made by Icarus and Daedalus, Archimedes, The Montgolfier Brothers, Otto Lilienthal, Tony Jannus, The Wright Brothers, and a triptych, capturing the first scheduled airline flight in history. |
| Restored (by the artist) in 1965 |
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