A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International...
Text from back of image: "While judges and contestants are still wrangling over the winning of the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race, this photo, just received from Europe, shows the start of the race from Brussels, Belgium. An American...
Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International...
Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International...
Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International...
Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International...
Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International...
Text from back of image: "Captain Ernest de Muyter, of Belgium (holding American flag) above, at Adams, Mass., where he landed after flight from Cleveland, Ohio, start of the 1930 Gordon Balloon Race, was adjudged unofficial second place, to War T....
Text from back of image: "A group of American competitors photographed before the start of the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race from Antwerp. Left to right: J. A. Boettner, H. W. Maxon, Healy, Captain H. C. Gray, W. W. Morton, W. J. Van Orman"
