Girl on the Tarmac, TCA Canadair North Star, 1950s

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Girl on the Tarmac, TCA Canadair North Star, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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A girl of about six stands on the open tarmac of a Canadian airport, dressed in a Sunday frock, while a Trans-Canada Air Lines Canadair North Star is serviced a short distance behind her. In the 1950s TCA was the prestige carrier of a nation still proud that the North Star — a Canadian-built hybrid of the DC-4 airframe and Rolls-Royce Merlin engines — represented something the country had made itself. Someone brought this child to the apron the way you might take a child to a parade: because the machines were worth seeing up close and no fence or security protocol suggested otherwise. She stands with her hands behind her back in the posture of a child who has been told to hold still for the camera, which means the important thing, to the adult with the camera, was the plane.

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