Painting of a balloon trip to Mount Lowe as envisioned by Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, ca.1895-1910 (CHS-2401)

Painting of a balloon trip to Mount Lowe as envisioned by Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, ca.1895-1910
Photograph of a painting by Homer A. Hamer of a balloon trip to Mount Lowe as envisioned by Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe from the prospectus, ca.1895-1910. Eight passengers on a ship suspended from a huge flag festooned balloon look down on the patchwork agricultural plots in the valley below as the vehicle approaches the observatory atop Mount Lowe. The Mount Lowe Railway is also depicted. The caption reads "Painted by Homer A. Hamer, landscape artist, A1257, 406 Henne Bldg. - Los Angeles, Cal."
Legacy record ID: chs-m13008; USC-1-1-1-13160; USC-0-1-1-5310
Filename: CHS-2401
Coverage date: circa 1895/1910
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Altadena; Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 2401
Microfiche number: 1-38-15; 1-102-2
Archival file: chs_Volume81/CHS-2401.tiff
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Subject (adlf): agricultural sites
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 3 photographs : photonegative, glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 25 x 20 cm., 26 x 21 cm., 25 x 16 cm.
Artist: Hamer, Homer A.
Call number: CHS-2401
Project: USC
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1895/1910
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographic prints; photographs; art
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Transportation -- Air -- Balloons; Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe
Format: glass plate negatives
Geographic subject: mountains: Mount Lowe
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Subject (lcsh): Aeronautics; Balloons; Mountains; Art; Astronomical observatories
Subject: Lowe, Thaddeus; Lowe, Professor Thaddeus S.C.; Hamer, Homer A.