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• lighterthanair
• aviation
• hotairballoon
• gasballoon
• 1910s
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• july81911
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• wanamakers
• hydrogenballoon
• basket
• crowd
• albertlstevens
• vintage
• gondola
• bainnewsservice
• baloon
• 1910

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• The Library of Congress 11 photos & illustrations
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• SDASM Archives 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Florida Memory 1 photo / illustration

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Stevens (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Randy Reiss said:

  This is likely to be Professional balloon & airship pilot/stunt man Albert Leo "Prince Leo" Stevens. Look for his full list of accomplishments at www.ballooninghistory.com/whoswho/who'swho-s2.html

• perfgeek said:

  Given the date, this is perhaps taken on the roof of Wanamaker's - we see images elsewhere in the set. One wonders what the goal of that day's flight was.

• Richard Norton said:

  I started an entry in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Leo_Stevens This is at Broadway and Tenth Street in Manhattan at Wanamaker's BALLOON SETS SAIL FOR PHILADELPHIA; Passes Above Times Square, Gets Lost in a Jersey Fog Bank, and Lands at West Nyack. July 9, 1911, Sunday A large balloon with two men in the basket arose from the roof of the Wanamaker store at Broadway and Tenth Street at 6 o'clock last night, sailed leisurely across the city, up Seventh Avenue to Times Square, and then floated off across the Hudson and was lost in the haze that hung over Weehawken.

• Wystan said:

  Another Bain/LOC photo of Stevens in the basket of the Wanamaker balloon:

• Wystan said:

  Filling the balloon, on the roof of the New York City Wanamaker department store:

Ballooning in New York reached a high pitch of interest last week (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• STOP BLACK ON ASIAN VIOLENCE said:

  Balloon Over Manhattan? Not a Chance The City Room, New York TImes. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/balloon-over-manhat...

• TVL1970 said:

  BALLOON EMPTY; AERONAUT DEAD; Paul Nocquet Expires in a Long Island Marsh. LIGHTS LURED HIM ON Swam Many Creeks Till He Fell Exhausted. WAS SAFE HAD HE STAYED Balloon Landed on a Sandy Beach, but He Tried to Reach Amityville and Died in the Effort. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01EEDD113EE733A...

Actor Kirk Douglas, center, in a hot air balloon: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

from Florida Memory

• TroyMcclure! said:

  they did not need propane tanks for hot air that day.....