Balloon view of Washington, D.C. – Antique Photo 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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Balloon view of Washington, D.C. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Balloon view of Washington, D.C.
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This engraving presents Washington as it might look from the air, a bird's-eye view of the city's layout. It ran in Harper's Weekly in late July 1861, only days after the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, when the capital was filling with troops and anxious residents. Aerial observation was then a new tool for armies, and Thaddeus Lowe's balloons that summer were among the first put to military use. The record for this print is partly unverified, so the exact vantage point and the artist are worth checking against the magazine page itself.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1861 July 27), p. 476. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,164 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155446 |
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