German balloon corps – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
German balloon corps comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Labeled as a German balloon corps, this glass negative likely shows a military ballooning unit, the kind Germany used for battlefield observation in the years before and during the First World War. Tethered observation balloons let crews watch enemy lines and direct artillery fire from above, and the German army trained such units with considerable care. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection of news photographs, whose glass negatives were made for newspaper reproduction. The record gives no date, and the title is unverified, so the exact unit and occasion remain uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,754 × 4,209 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13276 |
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