Portland, Oregon: A balloon ascension over guild's Lake, Lewis & Clark Centennial – 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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A window into the past: Portland, Oregon: A balloon ascension over guild's Lake, Lewis & Clark Centennial, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Portland, Oregon: A balloon ascension over guild's Lake, Lewis & Clark Centennial
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Few images from the 1905 fair show the sky as well as the ground. Here a balloon rises over Guild's Lake in Portland, Oregon, where the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition drew crowds that summer and fall. The fair marked 100 years since the Lewis and Clark expedition reached the Pacific coast in 1805, and aerial stunts like this one were a popular draw at turn-of-the-century expositions. The card was issued as a stereograph, so the scene was meant to be viewed through a stereo viewer for a three-dimensional effect.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo by International Stereograph Co., copyrighted by C.L. Wasson. Not found in Lot - 1/25/02. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,420 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132509 |
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