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Summary
English: Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia
Author
[Mathew Brady or Brady-Handy]
Title
English: Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia
Description
English: Inflation of the balloon Intrepid to reconnoiter the Battle of Fair Oaks; Lowe, not visible in this image, is standing to the right of the balloon.
Date
[photographed 1862 June 1, printed between 1880 and 1889]
Medium
1 photographic print on card mount : half stereograph, albumen.
Accession number
LC-DIG-ppmsca-33091 (digital file from original item)
LC-B816-2350 (detail from b&w glass neg.)
LC-USZC4-7995 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-3338 (b&w film copy neg.)
Call Number: LOT 4172-A, no. 3 [P&P]
Notes
Title from item.
No. 2350.
Inscribed on item: Copyright 1910 by Patriot Publishing Company.
No copyright renewal 3/23/61.
Copyright J148523 Feb. 5, 1910.
Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
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