About This Image

Controlled by a cable, this balloon is making an ascension from the airship yard at the St. Louis World's Fair.

Collier's Weekly stamp on verso with title in ink and publication date in pencil. Also title typed caption on paper affixed to verso and number 72271-22-3 stamped and handwritten on verso.

This photograph was used for the reproduction in Collier's Annual 1905 on p.497.

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