Crowd at balloon race, start of balloon "Indiana", Indianapolis – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Crowd at balloon race, start of balloon "Indiana", Indianapolis in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Crowd at balloon race, start of balloon "Indiana", Indianapolis
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Spectators crowd together at the launch of the balloon *Indiana* in Indianapolis, in a scene preserved on a glass negative from the Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain's agency supplied newspapers with news pictures in the early 1900s, when ballooning drew large public audiences and regularly attracted press photographers. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption information, so the specific event remains uncertain. Even so, the crowd shows how much attention these launches once commanded, before airplanes claimed the sky.
| 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 | 5,722 × 4,229 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5231 |
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