Filling Army balloon – Antique Print
(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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This historic photograph of Filling Army balloon brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Filling Army balloon
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Filling an Army balloon was a slow, carefully managed job, usually done with hydrogen or coal gas brought to the field and fed into a silk envelope while ground crews held the fabric steady. Military balloon units of the early twentieth century used these craft for observation and signaling, and the Bain News Service, which supplied photographs to newspapers from New York during those decades, often recorded this kind of work. The record gives no date for this view, so it is best read as a document of its period, when ballooning was still a practical military tool as well as a public spectacle.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,747 × 4,184 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29516 |
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