The California Arrow" starting with aeronaut Knabenshue in its first successful flight at the St. Louis World's Fair" – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of The California Arrow" starting with aeronaut Knabenshue in its first successful flight at the St. Louis World's Fair". Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The California Arrow" starting with aeronaut Knabenshue in its first successful flight at the St. Louis World's Fair"
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Few airships of the period were as closely tied to a single event as the California Arrow, which Roy Knabenshue flew at the St. Louis World's Fair, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Designed by Thomas S. Baldwin, the craft carried its pilot in a small suspended car beneath the envelope, and this stereo card shows the aeronaut aboard. The library dates the card to about 1905, although the flights themselves took place in 1904, when the fair drew huge crowds eager for new spectacles. Stereo views like this one, copyrighted by C.L. Wasson, were made to be seen through a stereoscope at home.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson. Roy Knabenshue in airship, designed by Thomas S. Baldwin, in Oct. 1905. This record contains unverified data from old caption card, with subsequent revisions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,577 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113189 |
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