Tag: barge

Balloon on barge, 1914-1918

A small steam boat pulls the barges over Lake Biel with the captive balloon inside: Balloon experimental company, 1914-1918
Original: Glass plate negative; silverbromide.
Maker / photographer: Santschi
Original caption: A small steam boat pulls the barges over Lake Biel with the captive balloon inside: Balloon experimental company, 1914-1918
Original: Glass plate negative.
Maker / photographer: Santschi

Balloon being carried on barge during World War I

With the outbreak of the first world war Switzerland was faced with confusing events – and therefore used captive balloons for clarification. Here on Lake Biel. Image: Swiss Photo Foundation
From: Switzerland and the great war “14/18 – Switzerland and the Great War” in the Zurich State Museum. | src Tages Anzeiger: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/Zerruettung-des-verschonten-Landes-/story/17621214

Moving the Lyford House, 1957 | Courtesy of the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks History Collection. The Lyford House is a victorian house, built in 1876. It was originally located at Strawberry Point as part of
Lyford’s Eagle Dairy Ranch, but was moved by barge in December 1957 (when
threatened with demolition) to
Richardson Bay in Tiburon peninsula, California.
| src Marin County

Robert Williams* :: Man reading newspaper on the banks of the Mississippi River,  Memphis, TN. while a barge** is passing by. Taken in August 7, 1961 and according to the watch, at 3:10 p.m.
Headline: ‘Soviet Alive, Well in 17th Orbit’ (The Soviet is

Gherman

Titov,

an air force pilot and cosmonaut

chosen to
fly the Vostok 2 in 1961) / more info and source: forensic genealogy

*

R. Williams was a staff photographer for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.

**

The barge is carrying the first Saturn V rocket engine, SA-1, used to launch Apollo 4.