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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

And this about Leo Stevens, balloonist here in the 1906 NYT: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0DE6D81F3DE633A... And here (1906): query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A05E7D6103EE733A... See other L. Stevens image here: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163757324/

We'll add Steven's complete name to the source catalog and reload the description. Thanks!

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.

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

Mrs. REL Mordecai would be more likely... Robert E. Lee Mordecai (1870-1923) was a real estate broker in New York in the 1900s and 1910s. According to the 1908 Social Register for NY (thanks Google Books), that makes her the former Miss Nellie E. King of Brooklyn. Mordecai was her second husband; she divorced Mr. Moore, her first.

Thanks for the tip! Typo repaired.

Wonderful and poetic picture.

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notice - no utility poles - not even telegraph connections

Interesting picture.....shoted many times ago! I like how the kids are dressed.. Ciao :-)

wowwwwwwww incredible......