Hawaii by Clipper Ship Viking Orbiter Vassar College in "The Polaroid

Vassar College in "The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation Aperture Foundation as "The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography

Photographed in 1942 by John Vachon on 4x5 transparency film for the Farm Security Administration

as NASA's eighth space shuttle launch lit up the Florida sky at 2:32 a

photographed by the Detroit Publishing Co

500 light-years (460 parsecs)

Hawaii by Clipper Ship Viking Orbiter Vassar College in "The PolaroidThis 1950's travel poster promotes Hawaii, and focuses on surfing. It shows a man and a woman on surf boards in the foreground, with people on a wave in the distance. Travel Hawaii surf's up! Poster shows a Hawaiian woman doing a hula dance as a Pan American clipper airplane flies in the background. Hawaii by Clipper Ship designed by John Atherton in 1948 for Pan American Airlines, or PanAm. The original was a color lithograph at 107 x 71 cm. Caption: