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General View, Columbia Gardens, Butte, Montana.
15149-Sailing Away for Washington, Aeronaut Tomlinson in His Balloon, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo.
234-The Pistol Cracks and “They’re Off” on the Great Balloon Race from World’s Fair, St. Louis, to Washington, D.C. , Prize, $5,000.
Rival air ships, their inventors’ pride, ready for race to Washington, D.C. from World’s Fair, St. Louis.
15344-Prof. Meyers’ Balloon and Its Admiring Crowd at the Foot of the Wireless Telegraph Tower, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis.
15452-Bird’s-Eye View of Lewis and Clark Exposition from Willamette Heights, Portland, Oregon.
15459-Washington State Building from Foreign Palace, Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland, Oregon.
Balloon Ascension, Santa Monica. Cal. The building at right is the Arcadia Hotel built in 1887.
32338. Inflation with Hydrogen Gas of a Copy of First Balloon Flown in America, Jan. 9, 1793. Washington Air Junction, Va.
32906. Professor Auguste Piccard (right), Explorer of the Stratosphere and his Twin Brother Jean.