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- GLC#
- GLC05111.02.1345-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- circa 1861-1865
- Author/Creator
- Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
- Title
- View of Professor Thaddeus Lowe and staff inflating reconnaissance balloon
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 carte de visite Height: 6.3 cm, Width: 9.9 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Image shows a group of about five men inflating Lowe's reconnaissance balloon, with a large crowd gathered to watch. The balloon itself is about 1/2 inflated. Imprint on recto "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by M. B. Brady, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia." Graphite inscription on verso "1.25.--." Photographers imprint on verso: "Brady's Album Gallery. No. 423. Professor Lowe inflating Balloon Intrepid To Reconnoiter Battle of Fair Oaks. The Photographs of this series were taken directly from nature, at considerable cost. Warning is therefore given that legal proceedings will be at once instituted against any party infringing the copyright."
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