British Balloon ship – 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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Step back in time with British Balloon ship, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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British Balloon ship
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The record identifies this glass negative as a "British Balloon ship," a label the Bain News Service wrote on its negatives or caption cards and that the Library of Congress notes is unverified. The date is also unrecorded, so the exact craft and occasion remain unknown. The Bain agency, a New York news photo service, supplied pictures of current events to newspapers in the early twentieth century, when Britain's army and navy were experimenting with rigid and semi-rigid airships. Because the title is the only identifying detail, the picture is best read as a glimpse of that period's interest in lighter-than-air flight.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,216 × 5,798 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21778 |
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