Balloon Inflation for "Photography & the City" Exhibition
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintID: SIA Acc. 11-008 [OPA-1353]
Creator: Smithsonian Institution Photographic Services Division
Form/Genre: Black-and-white negatives
Date: 1968
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-008, Box 11, Image No. OPA-1353
Inflation of balloon for the Charles Eames exhibition "Photography & the City: The Evolution of an Art and a Science" in the Arts and Industries Building. The balloon was used to illustrate the method used to take the first aerial photo in the United States.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-008, Box 11, Image No. OPA-1353
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Black-and-white negatives
SIA Acc. 11-008 [OPA-1353]
35mm;