Men with weather balloon on roof of U.S. Weather Bureau building, Washington, D.C.
4 x 5 in. or smaller
- Date
- 1936
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 7,752 × 10,008 pixels
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