National Championship Balloon Cup – 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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A window into the past: National Championship Balloon Cup, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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National Championship Balloon Cup
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The record names a National Championship Balloon Cup, an event whose trophy drew crowds of spectators and aeronauts in the early twentieth century, when balloon races were among the most watched contests of the day. The picture is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with news photographs. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption data that the agency wrote on the negative or its card, so the details of the race itself are not confirmed. The plates are still worth a look for the gear, the launch grounds and the crowds that gathered for such events.
| 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 | 4,228 × 5,785 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5213 |
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