Ger. -- Captured French Balloon-- REPtype – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Ger. -- Captured French Balloon-- REPtype in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ger. -- Captured French Balloon-- REPtype
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The caption on this glass negative describes a captured French balloon, and the "Ger." label suggests it was photographed in German hands. Tethered observation balloons floated over the front lines during the First World War, spotting artillery and relaying reports to the ground, and both sides lost many of them to aircraft and gunfire. A captured balloon offered its captors a usable envelope, basket, and equipment to study. The Bain News Service, a New York press agency that sold pictures to newspapers, often left its dates incomplete, so the exact year of this image remains 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,729 × 4,178 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21751 |
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