IL Ballooning Contest Aero Park Chicago 1908 PHOTO – Vintage Photo Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of IL Ballooning Contest Aero Park Chicago 1908 PHOTO. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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IL Ballooning Contest Aero Park Chicago 1908 PHOTO
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Chicago's Aero Park was a short-lived gathering ground for early aviation, and this 1908 view captures one of the balloon contests held there in the years when lighter-than-air craft still drew large crowds. In that period, balloon races were major public entertainments, pitting pilots against wind and weather while spectators watched the gas-filled envelopes rise from open fields. Photographs like this one are valuable today because they record the crews, equipment and grounds of a sport that gave way within a decade to powered flight.
| Created / published | 1908 |
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| Original scan | 5,231 × 1,963 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | IL Ballooning Contest, Aero Park, Chicago, 1908 |
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