Balloon in flight during U.S. Signal Corps operations at Ft. Myer, Va., 1907 – Historic Reproduction
(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 in flight during U.S. Signal Corps operations at Ft. Myer, Va., 1907 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Balloon in flight during U.S. Signal Corps operations at Ft. Myer, Va., 1907
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Fort Myer, Virginia, was the setting for this balloon ascent, carried out under the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1907. That year the Corps formed its Aeronautical Division, and balloons were used to train officers in observation and communication from the air. The picture survives as a stereograph, one of a pair of nearly identical images viewed through a stereoscope to produce a three-dimensional effect. Underwood & Underwood, the firm that published it, sold such cards widely to American households in the early 1900s. The catalog date of c1907 is approximate, and the record notes that its caption data has not been fully verified.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 107091. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,211 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113364 |
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