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[Allen MacCracken, aide, and Ward T. Van Orman, pilot, in front of Goodyear VIII balloon] – Antique Print

[Allen MacCracken, aide, and Ward T. Van Orman, pilot, in front of Goodyear VIII balloon], 1930 — historic photograph
[Allen MacCracken, aide, and Ward T. Van Orman, pilot, in front of Goodyear VIII balloon], 1930. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Two men stand before the Goodyear VIII, a gas balloon whose envelope and basket fill most of the frame. Ward T. Van Orman, the pilot, was an Akron, Ohio, balloonist tied to the Goodyear company, which built and flew lighter-than-air craft during the 1920s and 1930s. Allen MacCracken, the aide, is shown alongside him in the crew's preparation for flight. Pictures like this one record how balloon racing was organized before airships and airplanes took over long-distance air travel, and the crew portrait gives a sense of the teamwork the sport required.

Created / published1930
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by U.S. Army Air Corps. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI (2); Balloons; Shelf. Sources checked: LCNA: Van Orman, Ward Tunte, 1894-1978.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,082 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140734

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