Balloons on field prior to start of race, Indianapolis – 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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Balloons on field prior to start of race, Indianapolis comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Balloons on field prior to start of race, Indianapolis
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Balloons crowd an open field at Indianapolis just before a race is set to begin, a scene that sets this negative apart from the other ballooning views on the board by placing the craft on the ground rather than in flight. The record does not give a date, and the title comes from caption data that has not been verified, so the exact event is uncertain. The picture belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century. Its glass negatives are among the most useful records of American public events from that era, and this one shows how spectacle and crowd gatherings were recorded for the press.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,791 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5232 |
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