Washington, D.C. (April 19, 2007) – Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine introduces a new online “Reader Scrapbook” on its Web site (airspacemag.com) – a unique and fascinating gallery of photos from the private collections of its readers. The first batch of pictures to go online includes never-before-seen color shots of Marilyn Monroe with the helicopter pilots who flew her around Korea during a 1954 USO tour and rare sepia-tinted photographs of vintage airplanes in the 1910s.
The magazine asked readers to submit photos related to aviation or spaceflight that might be stored away in closets or attics. So far more than 150 submissions have come in; a sampling is online at airspacemag.com/scrapbook. Visitors to the site are encouraged to e-mail their photographs to Air & Space for inclusion in the online scrapbook, which will be updated regularly.
“The community memory of Air & Space readers is a historic treasure, and the Reader Scrapbook is the best way to share that wealth with all of our readers and the rest of the world,” said Air & Space Editor Linda Shiner. “We are captivated by the stories the photographs tell and delighted by the unprecedented response from our readers.” Photographs should be scanned in JPG, GIF or TIFF format and e-mailed as attached files to readerscrapbook@si.edu. Submissions should also include the entrant’s city and state as well as a caption or brief explanation of the snapshot’s content or significance.
To view the online gallery or for additional information, visit airspacemag.com/scrapbook. Air & Space/Smithsonian is a magazine for who all are curious about the great aerospace achievements of the past century and flight’s exciting future. Readers are technology-literate consumers who finds inspiration in a unique human exploit: our development of the means to fly within the Earth’s atmosphere and beyond it. Published in Washington, D.C., Air & Space/Smithsonian celebrates the human achievement behind the hardware in space exploration, travel, and research with stories of the invention and struggle that define the field of aerospace. For more information, Web exclusives and full-text articles, visit airspacemag.com.
