1936 Print Salomon Andre Hydrogen Balloon North Pole Exploration Historic XGUC2 IN1 Wausau Wisconsin Vintage Advertising

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1936 Print Salomon Andre Hydrogen Balloon North Pole Exploration Historic XGUC2 IN1 Wausau Wisconsin Vintage AdvertisingThis is an original 1936 black and white halftone print of a historical image of Swedish balloonist and arctic explorer Salomon August Andre with the hydrogen balloon men (Eagle) on which he and his two comrades, Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg, would fly from Svalbard, Norway to either Russia or Canada and, on their way, would pass the North Pole. Unfortunately, the imported untested balloon had leaked more than was accounted for and the two men