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Title: Mammoth Captive Balloon
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1901
Publication Information: San Francisco, Cal. : Baldwin & Hudson
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 1998-0458
PHOTO: AVIATION: BALLOONS
View of nine men and one woman in the basket of a hot air balloon attached to a platform with cables; man standing on platform; "Night Ascension" banner on basket; sign "Ascension 324" on platform; ca. 1901.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint mounted on 10 x 8 in board ; 8 1/2 x 6 3/8in.
Identifier: (C)001377574CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-0800
Subject: Balloons (Aircraft)--California--San Francisco
Balloonists--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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