1936 Print Salomon Andre Hydrogen Balloon North Pole Exploration Historic XGUC2 NGMA1 "La Vierge et L'Enfant avec

"La Vierge et L'Enfant avec Sainte Anee" ("Virgin and Child with St

2 double-sided) of illustrations drawn by French artist and infantry officer

Francis Davis

Fifteenth Century

1936 Print Salomon Andre Hydrogen Balloon North Pole Exploration Historic XGUC2 NGMA1 "La Vierge et L'Enfant avecThis 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