Heart of Houston, from Little Frank's balloon – Antique 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Heart of Houston, from Little Frank's balloon. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Heart of Houston, from Little Frank's balloon
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This aerial view of Houston was taken from a balloon, a vantage point that let photographers capture the downtown grid and surrounding streets from above, something ground-level cameras could not do. The print is titled for "Little Frank's balloon," the craft that carried the camera, and it dates to about 1912. Beach & Stern, the firm credited on the print, registered it for copyright, which was common for commercial city views sold as postcards and souvenirs in the 1910s. In that decade Houston was expanding quickly, with new rail connections and a growing commercial core, so the picture records a city in transition.
| Created / published | c1912. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Cityscape photographs 1910-1920.Aerial photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J167115 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Beach & Stern. |
| Subjects | Houston (Tex.)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,678 × 2,833 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-178463 |
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