img 1588 steevithak – Vintage Print
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This rare historic image captures img 1588 steevithak in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Balloon imagery took hold in America soon after the first hot-air ascents in France in 1783, when news of the flights spread quickly across the Atlantic. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, balloons were a common sight at county fairs, military demonstrations and city celebrations, and the aerial viewpoint they offered changed how people pictured landscape and town. Scenes like this one often set the craft against open sky or a crowd below. The spectators and the ground in such images often reveal as much about the occasion as the balloon does.
| Original scan | 3,908 × 2,602 px · prints to 13 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 2886994196_ca69f1d68f_o img_1588 steevithak |
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