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Chas. H. Kabrich – Historic Reproduction

Chas. H. Kabrich — historic image
Chas. H. Kabrich. Historic image from the Balloons collection.

(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: Chas. H. Kabrich, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Chas. H. Kabrich

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The title names Chas. H. Kabrich, and the record offers little beyond that, so the name is the best place to start: it points to a man connected with ballooning. Balloon ascents drew large crowds from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, when aeronauts flew from fairgrounds and town squares to entertain audiences and to test early ideas about flight. Photographs of these flyers often show them beside their gondolas or inflated envelopes, with the equipment as much a part of the story as the person. The clothing, gear and setting are worth studying for clues about how exhibition flying looked at the time.

Original scan1,434 × 1,938 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi
Reference0525u Chas. H. Kabrich

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