Crowd in stands, balloon overhead, at start of balloon race, St. Louis – Historic Reproduction
(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 Crowd in stands, balloon overhead, at start of balloon race, St. Louis. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Crowd in stands, balloon overhead, at start of balloon race, St. Louis
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Rather than the balloon itself, this picture focuses on the spectators packed into the stands, with a balloon hanging overhead as the race gets underway in St. Louis. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, made the glass negative, and its caption data, which is not fully verified, dates the scene to October 1907. St. Louis was a major center of American ballooning in those years and hosted the Gordon Bennett Cup that autumn, so the image captures one of the sport's most public moments.
| Created / published | 10/9/07. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,823 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5557 |
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