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Title: View of balloon rising from stratosphere bowl.
Identifier(s): graphics:3334; APSimg7855; Graphics Number: U5-7-125
Description: View of balloon being inflated.
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935 November

Title: Mount Shasta from the Northwest.
Identifier(s): graphics:3212; APSimg7801; Graphics Number: F8-44-9
Description: View of Mount Shasta.; Photograph taken during National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight.
Creator: Stevens, Albert William, 1886-1949
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); Aerial photographs; National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935 November

Title: View of scientific equipment for stratosphere flight.
Identifier(s): graphics:3326; APSimg7843; Graphics Number: U5-7-102
Description: Internal view of gondola used for stratosphere flight.
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935 November

Title: Internal view of gondola for stratosphere flight.
Identifier(s): graphics:3311; APSimg7852; Graphics Number: U5-7-116
Description: Internal view of gondola, equipment used for flight visible.
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935 November

Title: Borglum Memorial.
Identifier(s): graphics:3203; APSimg7802; Graphics Number: F8-49-7
Description: View of memorial, cut into mountain.; Photograph taken during National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight.
Creator: Stevens, Albert William, 1886-1949
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); Aerial photographs; National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935 November

Title: Full length view, two unidentified men, standing outside, working on equipment for stratospheric flight.
Identifier(s): graphics:3323; APSimg7837; Graphics Number: U5-7-93
Description: Full length view of two men working with equipment.; Similar to APSimg7838
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935 November

Title: "Constructing Largest Balloon Every Built," postcard.
Identifier(s): graphics:3340; APSimg7847; Graphics Number: U5-7-110
Description: View of deflated balloon being spread out and held by circle of people.
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935

Title: "View of Stratosphere Bowl (You are Standing Here Now)," postcard.
Identifier(s): graphics:3331; APSimg7850; Graphics Number: U5-7-113
Description: View of natural bowl used to launch the Explorer II stratosphere flight balloon, with indication of where the viewer would be standing under unknown circumstances.
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935

Title: View of inflated balloon for stratosphere flight, seen from groundlevel.
Identifier(s): graphics:3319; APSimg7860; Graphics Number: U5-7-160
Description: View of inflated balloon, held by ropes to the ground.
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935 November

Title: W. F. G. Swann, working with equipment, metal gondola for stratosheric flight in background.
Identifier(s): graphics:3341; APSimg7840; Graphics Number: U5-7-90
Description: Full length view of Swann, working with equipment.
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Swann, William Francis Gray, 1884-1962; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935 November

Title: Captain Albert Stevens, scientific observer on stratosphere flight, postcard.
Identifier(s): graphics:3336; APSimg7845; Graphics Number: U5-7-108
Description: Full length view of Captain Stevens, preparing for flight.
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Stevens, Albert William, 1886-1949; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935

Title: Major Keppner (?), Captain Stevens and unidentified man, standing in front of gondola for stratosphere flight.
Identifier(s): graphics:3325; APSimg7858; Graphics Number: U5-7-152
Description: Full length view of three men standing in front of gondola.
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Stevens, Albert William, 1886-1949; Explorer II (Balloon); Balloons (Aircraft); National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight
Date: 1935 November