Reifschneider "Balloon shop" (Streator) – Vintage 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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Reifschneider "Balloon shop" (Streator) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Reifschneider "Balloon shop" (Streator)
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Little survives of this glass negative beyond its caption, which names a "Balloon shop" in Streator, Illinois, under the surname Reifschneider. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, produced the negative. The record notes that the title comes from unverified data on the negative or its caption card. Balloon workshops of that era stitched cloth envelopes by hand and coated them with varnish, and their work supported the exhibition ascensions and public flights that drew crowds to fairs and town events. The place and maker are the main clues here, since no date is recorded.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,854 × 4,291 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1348 |
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