[Balloon notes]

United States. Army Division of Military Aeronautics · 1917 · 14 pictures

A 1917 United States Army Division of Military Aeronautics publication of balloon notes, compiled for military aeronautics personnel to interpret aerial reconnaissance. The pictures are plane-table style trench and shelter maps from the Flanders, Vosges and Lorraine fronts beside aerial photographs of cratered ground and zigzag trench lines, drawn in fine black line with handwritten French annotations. A designer might take the clean technical linework, grid-north arrows and dense annotation layout as a model for diagrammatic maps.

Balloons · Aeronautics, Military

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