U.S. Signal Corps with balloon during operations at Ft. Myer, Va., 1907 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This rare historic photograph captures U.S. Signal Corps with balloon during operations at Ft. Myer, Va., 1907 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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U.S. Signal Corps with balloon during operations at Ft. Myer, Va., 1907
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Fort Myer, just across the Potomac from Washington, D.C., is the setting for this view of Signal Corps soldiers working with a balloon in 1907. That year the Army's Signal Corps was building its first aeronautical program at the post, and balloons served for observation and training before powered aircraft arrived there. The picture was issued as a stereograph by Underwood & Underwood, whose paired-lens cards were widely sold for home viewing and gave viewers a three-dimensional look at such scenes. The date comes from an old caption card and may have been revised since.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. U-107105. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,234 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113367 |
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