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Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia – Antique Print

Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia, c1910. — historic photograph
Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia, c1910.. Historic photograph from the Ballooning collection.

(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: Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia

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Thaddeus Lowe, a civilian aeronaut, offered his gas balloons to the Union Army in 1861, and by 1862 he was flying them over the Virginia Peninsula during the Union advance toward Richmond. Gaines Mill, named here, was the site of a fierce battle on June 27, 1862, during the Seven Days' fighting. From the basket, Lowe's observers could look down on Confederate positions and send reports to commanders by telegraph wire. This picture dates from about 1910, so it is a later print of a Civil War subject, issued by the Patriot Publishing Company.

Created / publishedc1910.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910.
NotesJ148522 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Patriot Publishing Company. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBalloons (Aircraft)--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Air operations.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,100 × 2,127 px · prints to 7 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221468

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