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Title: Steam Captive Balloon, "City of San Francisco"
Date Created and/or Issued: 1894
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: View 1 (1989-0224a). View of balloon -- view 2 (1989-0224b). Certificate.
PHOTO: AVIATION: BALLOONS
View of a balloon called "City of San Francisco" resting on the ground; bleachers in the background; men with top hats sit in the basket of the balloon. On verso: certificate with a red seal,certifying a flight was made in the balloon, acccesion no. 430.
Negative, no. 20,918 (4 x 5 in.). Also a copy (8 x 10 in.) photograph in file.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on a cabinet card ; 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001388930CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2240
Subject: Balloons (Aircraft)--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Cabinet photographs
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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