Aust. Balloon to test wind – 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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Step back in time with Aust. Balloon to test wind, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Aust. Balloon to test wind
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A glass negative from the Bain News Service is captioned "Aust. Balloon to test wind," though the record gives no date and the abbreviation could mean Austria or Australia. Bain's agency filed a steady stream of news pictures in New York and beyond in the early twentieth century, and balloons drew wide attention then as both sport and science. Free balloons were used in meteorological work, with observers following their drift to judge wind speed and direction at altitude. The title comes from unverified caption cards, so the scene is best read as a press picture of a balloon prepared for a wind test rather than a documented event.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,704 × 4,128 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21692 |
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