Balloon at Wanamakers - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Balloon at Wanamakers - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Photo shows the hydrogen balloon, "Wanamaker no. 1," lifting off from the roof of the John Wanamaker store at Broadway and Tenth Ave., New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009, and New York Times archive, July 9, 1911.)

Aviation before the WWI

Glass negatives of everything that was flying between 1890 and 1913.

Collection - Aviation before the WWI
Flying Things 1890-1913

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