Start of balloon race, St. Louis – Vintage 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 rare historic photograph captures Start of balloon race, St. Louis in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Start of balloon race, St. Louis
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The start of a balloon race in St. Louis, in October 1910, is the subject of this glass negative. That month the city hosted the Gordon Bennett Cup, the leading international ballooning contest of the period, which drew pilots from several countries. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by the Bain News Service, a commercial agency that sold news photographs in the early 1900s. Its title and date come from caption data the library has not independently verified.
| Created / published | Oct. 1910. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,741 × 4,210 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10005 |
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