Hot air balloons mass ascension over a field with crowds – Vintage Print
(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: Hot air balloons mass ascension over a field with crowds, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Hot air balloons mass ascension over a field with crowds
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Crowds ring a open field as a large group of hot air balloons rises together, a sight that drew spectators to early balloon meets across the country. Mass ascensions like this one were a staple of fairs and festival days, when a dozen or more balloons would be inflated at once and released in a single coordinated launch. Ground spectators, often standing shoulder to shoulder at the edge of the field, watched the envelopes climb into the sky while sponsors and organizers looked on. Images such as this one capture how novel the flights still were, and how much of the event depended on the crowd gathered below.
| Original scan | 3,008 × 2,000 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1563029463_d24a3c3967_o Mass Ascension a4qpa |
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