The Stratosphere Balloon Explorer II ready for its flight
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The Stratosphere Balloon Explorer II ready for its flight

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The Stratosphere Balloon Explorer II ready for its flight

November 11, 1935
Gelatin silver print
Image: 15 15/16 × 12 1/16 in. (40.5 × 30.7 cm)
Mount: 24 × 17 7/8 in. (61 × 45.4 cm)
Gift of the Photographic Society of America, Rochester Technical Section
1949.0004.0009
Inscriptions Printed in black on applied label on mount recto, B: THE STRATOSPHERE BALLOON EXPLORER II READY FOR ITS FLIGHT \ The exposure was made shortly after dawn November 11, 1935, as the balloon was poised in its flood-lighted inflation field in the Black Hills of South \ Dakota. In the balloon is its quota of approximately 250,000 cubic feet of helium gas which will expand at an altitude of 12 1/2 miles to fill the bag completely. \ PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD H. STEWART WITH THE FOLLOWING EQUIPMENT: \ CAMERA—ICA JEWELL, WITH ILEX BETWEEN-THE-LENS TYPE SHUTTER \ LENS—CARL ZEISS TESSAR, F.4.5, 21 cm. FOCAL LENGTH \ FILM—EASTMAN KODAK PORTRAIT PANCHROMATIC \ EXPOSURE—2 SECONDS AT f.4.5 \ SIZE OF EXPOSURE—5 BY 7 INCHES \ FILTER—NONE
Printed in black on mount recto, BLC: 115
Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, T: No. 1 The Stratosphere Balloon Explorer II Ready for its flight \ Nat Geo Soc
Printed in black on orange applied label on mount verso, C: first \ international \ exhibit \ SCIENTIFIC \ APPLIED \ PHOTOGRAPHY \ ROCHESTER \ TECHNICAL \ SECTION \ PHOTOGRAPHIC \ SOCIETY \ OF AMERICA \ RUNDEL LIBRARY \ MARCH 15 APRIL 3 \ 1937 \ ROCHESTER, N.Y.
Printed in black on blue applied label on mount verso, C: FROM JANUARY SECOND TO JANUARY TENTH 1938 \ EXHIBITED \ THE ART CENTER SCHOOL LOS ANGELES, CALIF
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