U.S. Signal Corps at work on balloon, Ft. Myer, Va., 1907 – Antique 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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This rare historic photograph captures U.S. Signal Corps at work on balloon, 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 at work on balloon, Ft. Myer, Va., 1907
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Fort Myer, just across the Potomac from Washington, was where the Army's Signal Corps worked with balloons in 1907, the year the service took on responsibility for military aeronautics. The card shows Signal Corps personnel at work on a balloon, a reminder that early aerial observation depended on ground crews and handling gear as much as on the craft itself. Underwood & Underwood, a firm that sold large numbers of stereoscopic views to home viewers, issued the card, so the image reached parlors as well as military readers. The date of c1907 comes from an old caption and has not been fully verified.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. U-107132. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,209 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113366 |
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