U.S. War Balloon No. 2 – Vintage 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of U.S. War Balloon No. 2. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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U.S. War Balloon No. 2
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Labeled U.S. War Balloon No. 2 and dated to about June 14, 1907, this print shows an early military balloon from the years when the American army was first building its own lighter-than-air craft. The Army Signal Corps then handled military aeronautics, using balloons for observation and signaling over difficult terrain, and this photograph documents one of those machines. The print was copyrighted by Waldon Fawcett, but the date and other details come from an old caption card that has not been independently verified, so the exact circumstances are worth treating with some caution.
| Created / published | c1907 June 14. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | H95231 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Waldon Fawcett. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Balloons, Military; Photog. Index; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,215 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131920 |
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