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The record of an aeronaut, being the life of John M. Bacon

Bacon, Gertrude, 1874- · 1907 · London, J. Long · 11 pictures

A 1907 London memoir by Gertrude Bacon of her father John Mackenzie Bacon, an aeronaut, published by J. Long for a general readership interested in ballooning. Its photographs are sepia halftones of the Crystal Palace balloon exhibition, a balloon rising at dawn, and cloud banks seen from above, offering a designer quiet, tonal references for early aviation and atmospheric landscapes.

Bacon, John M, (John Mackenzie. 1846-1904 · Aeronautics

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