On British Balloon ship – Historic 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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On British Balloon ship
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The title identifies this glass negative as showing a British balloon or airship, but the Bain News Service caption is unverified, so the exact craft and occasion are unknown. It belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a New York news-photo archive that documented events and new technology for the press in the early twentieth century. Lighter-than-air craft drew steady newspaper attention in that era, both as sporting machines and as possible military and commercial vehicles. With no date recorded, the picture is best read as a glimpse of that wider fascination with ballooning.
| 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 | 4,160 × 5,817 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21781 |
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