Suspension of Balloon in A&I

ID: 72-2539-12 or SIA72-2539-12

Creator: Farrar, Richard

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1972

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 1, Folder: March 1972

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Summary

Balloon show project director Roger Pineau holds the end of a liner as exhibits specialists Ben Snouffer (partially hidden) and Bob Klinger make the final adjustments for the suspension of a 32 & 1/2 - foot World War II Japanese attack balloon in the Arts and Industries Building.

Subject

  • Arts and Industries Building
  • National Air and Space Museum

Notes

Featured in TORCH, March 1972

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 1, Folder: March 1972

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Date

1972

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Klinger, Robert
  • WW II
  • Balloons (Aircraft)
  • Pineau, Roger
  • Snouffer, Ben
  • Aeronautics
  • Exhibitions
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Balloons

Place

Japan

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid

ID Number

72-2539-12 or SIA72-2539-12

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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