Image: Gertrude Bacon Frontis 1905
Description: Three people, a man, a woman, and a man, are standing in the basket of a hot air balloon as it ascends. They are wearing Victorian clothing and hats. A bag on the side of the balloon says "Spencer Balloon Highbury". A sign on the basket is too small to read. Miss Bacon may be holding a camera. People shown: John Mackenzie Bacon (1846-1904), Gertrude Bacon (1874-1949), Stanley Spencer (1868–1906) Original caption: "THE AUTHORESS, HER FATHER, AND MR. SPENCER MAKING AN ASCENT"
Title: Gertrude Bacon Frontis 1905
Credit: Frontispiece illustration from published book: Bacon, Gertrude, 1874-1949: Ballons, airships and flying machines, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1905. Digital image of page from online edition was saved and cropped by Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 09:08, 27 April 2013 (UTC) Online edition used: page images at HathiTrust http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001039512 public domain in USA (original publication 1905); public domain in United Kingdom (country of origin) as of 2020 under "Life+70" rules for published books, since the author died in 1949.
Author: Gertrude Bacon, 1874-1949
Usage Terms: Public domain in the United States
License: PD-US
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