Baldwin balloon (dirigible), in flight over spectators – Antique Print
(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: Baldwin balloon (dirigible), in flight over spectators, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Baldwin balloon (dirigible), in flight over spectators
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Thomas Scott Baldwin, an American aeronaut known for his early airships, is the name attached to this view of a dirigible drifting low over a crowd of onlookers. The catalog date of May 26, 1909, places it in the period when powered, steerable airships drew large public audiences at exhibitions and open-air demonstrations. The glass negative comes from the Bain News Service, a Manhattan photo agency whose pictures of new technology and daily news were widely sold to newspapers. The title is taken from the agency's own notes and has not been independently verified, so the scene is best read as a record of how the public encountered early aviation.
| Created / published | 5/26/09. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,803 × 4,323 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5223 |
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