Many post-war color photos of aircraft, missiles, and related subjects processed by the United States Air Force were expensive dye transfer prints.  When this kind of rich, accurate and permanent three-color process is applied to an image of a radar installation, it creates an incongruently beautiful picture.

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Untitled (USAF Radar Installation)

Unattributed, c. 1952
vintage dye-transfer print
10″ × 7.125″