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5138-German Sausage Zeppelin, Horned Owl, Brought down by French.
Handiwork of the retreating Boers-destroyed railway bridge over the Vet River-Lord Roberts’ campaign, S.A.
Partially inflated balloon with group posed in front. Probably a souvenir image by the kind of posing with the women in the basket and a box for them to use to climb in.
Balloon Aerial near Sherburne, NY ca. 1880. This is a copy stereo transparency by Brandt Rowles.
Assembly of the first electrically propelled hot air balloon, invented by brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier, circa 1883.
Scene on the South Front of Alexandra Palace. Figures to extreme left: Miss E. Sweetlove & Master W.J. Fuller. August Bank Holiday 1906.
Ascent of Balloon from South Front of Alexandra Palace. Locality: Wood Green, London. Date: August (Bank Holiday) 1904.
Prof. Gaudron ascending by Balloon preparatory to descending by Parachute in the Grounds of the Alexandra Palace.
Lincoln Beachey’s Airship about to ascend, Lewis & Clark Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 1905. Lincoln Beachey, an eighteen-year old balloon pilot, made nine ascents above the exposition grounds in 1905. He operated T.S. Baldwin’s motor-driven blimps named “Angelus” and the “City of Portland.
Walt Whitman, 1879. With Harold Johnston. This is a cropped version of Kurtz’s photo of Whitman with “Kitty” (Katherine Devereux) and “Harry” (Harold Hugh) Johnston. Kitty has been doctored out and a clutch of grass added to Harry’s hand. A child said “What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands.”