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Portraits of aeronauts, balloonists, aviators, and others, mainly European

Content Provider	Library of Congress - Photographs
Spatial Coverage	Europe
Description	Photographs and reproductions show portraits of people associated primarily with ballooning and airships, including Arno Boerner (airship inventor); August Euler; Wilfrid de Fonvielle (French airship pilot); Germaine Granveaud (French parachutist); participants in the Gordon Bennett Cup Balloon Race in St. Louis, 1907, and other early Cup races, including Oscar Erbslöh and Hans Hiedemann; Theodor Kober (engineer and designer of Zeppelin airships); aerologist Prof. Lincke; Adolf Miethe (developer of aerial photography from ballons with Alfred Hildebrandt); H.W.L. Moedebeck ("father" of aviation cartography); Florian von Poser und Gross-Naedlitz; August Saloman (first Swedish airship officer); Archduke Leopold Salvator (Austrian balloonist); Käthe Schulthess (Swiss skydiver); ballonist Eduard Spelterini; Felix Wagenführ (director of the Arado Flugzeugwerke); Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin. Also, series of 15 reproductions of drawings by Wilhelm Jordan of German World War I aces and holders of the Orden Pour le Mérite.
File Format	JPG / JPEG
Language	English
Part of Series	Groups of Images (LOTs)
Requires	HTML5 supported browser
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Domain (in LCSH)	Balloonists--European--1890-1940.
Subject Domain (in LCSH)	Military air pilots--German--1890-1940.
Subject Domain (in LCSH)	Aeronautics--Europe--1890-1940.
Subject Domain (in LCSH)	Air pilots--European--1890-1940.
Subject Domain (in LCSH)	Inventors--1890-1940.
Content Type	Image
Resource Type	Photograph

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