[Crowd waiting for balloon ascension, World's Columbian Exposition,Chicago, Ill.] – Historic Print
![[Crowd waiting for balloon ascension, World's Columbian Exposition,Chicago, Ill.], c1893. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/08/086b18f4cc07-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Crowd waiting for balloon ascension, World's Columbian Exposition,Chicago, Ill.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Crowd waiting for balloon ascension, World's Columbian Exposition,Chicago, Ill.]
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The photograph shows a crowd gathered in expectation of a balloon ascension at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, held in 1893 to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas. Balloon flights were among the fair's popular spectacles, and the sight of a rising balloon drew large, eager audiences to the grounds. The print was issued by the Souvenir Photographic Co. of Chicago, a firm that sold views of the fair to visitors who wanted a lasting record of their visit. Its focus on the waiting spectators, rather than the balloon alone, offers a useful glimpse of how the public experienced the exposition.
| Created / published | c1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 55602Y2 U.S. Copyright Office. Issued by Souvenir Photographic Co., Chicago. |
| Subjects | World's Columbian Exposition--(1893 :--Chicago, Ill.) Spectators--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900. Balloons (Aircraft)--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168631 |
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