Prof. T. Lowe making a balloon ascension on a reconnoitring expedition to Vienna, Va. – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Prof. T. Lowe making a balloon ascension on a reconnoitring expedition to Vienna, Va.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Prof. T. Lowe making a balloon ascension on a reconnoitring expedition to Vienna, Va.
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This engraving shows Prof. T. Lowe, the civilian aeronaut, rising in a balloon on a reconnaissance flight over Vienna, Virginia, a village in the northern part of the state close to the Union lines in 1861. Lowe offered his balloons to the Union army that year, and his aerial observations were among the first attempts to use flight for military intelligence. The wood engraving appeared in *Harper's Weekly*, a popular illustrated newspaper that relied on engravings like this one to show readers events they could not see for themselves.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 5, p. 790, 1861. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War--Recon.; Va.--V-; Civil War--Balloons; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 995 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132709 |
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