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Dirigible balloon on Baron E. DeMarcay – Historic Print

Dirigible balloon on Baron E. DeMarcay, n/a — historic photograph
Dirigible balloon on Baron E. DeMarcay, n/a. Historic photograph from the Ballooning 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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Dirigible balloon on Baron E. DeMarcay

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The caption on this glass negative ties Baron E. DeMarcay to a dirigible balloon, a steerable airship rather than the free-floating gas bag that most early aeronauts flew. The title comes from notes the Bain News Service wrote on its negatives or caption cards, and the record marks those notes as unverified, so the identification of the craft and its pilot should be checked against other sources. The Bain collection holds news pictures from the early twentieth century, when steerable airships drew press attention as a test of whether powered flight could be controlled. The picture is a useful record of how newspapers covered these machines.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,728 × 4,197 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-1446

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