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Observation balloon basket
Professor Thaddeus Lowe in observation balloon basket
During the Peninsula Campaign Union forces used Professor Thaddeus Lowe's observation balloon many times. In this photo Lowe is standing in the balloon's basket, tethered a few feet off the ground
Image added on:June 25, 2006
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