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[View from balloon taken at the level of the clouds, 5500 feet over Connecticut] – Vintage Wall Art

[View from balloon taken at the level of the clouds, 5500 feet over Connecticut], c1886 March 22. — historic photograph
[View from balloon taken at the level of the clouds, 5500 feet over Connecticut], c1886 March 22.. 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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Step back in time with [View from balloon taken at the level of the clouds, 5500 feet over Connecticut], 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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Taken from a balloon at about 5,500 feet over Connecticut, this view places the camera at the level of the clouds, a vantage few photographers of the 1880s could reach. John G. Doughty and Alfred E. Moore made the photograph around March 22, 1886, and it appeared in the September 1886 issue of *The Century*, a popular magazine. Early aerial work demanded heavy glass plates and quick exposures from a swaying basket, so pictures taken aloft were rare. Readers of the day treated them as both scientific records and striking novelties.

Created / publishedc1886 March 22.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1890.Aerial photographs 1880-1890.
Notes6854 R U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by John G. Doughty (also photographer) and Alfred E. Moore. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Published in: The Century, a popular quarterly, v. 32, issue 5 (Sept. 1886).
SubjectsClouds--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 940 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118339

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