World Altitude Record
Stratospheric Balloon, 1933
Vintage silver prints photocollage, 240x180 mm, publication and date stamp «22 November 1933»
United States Navy officer Thomas Greenhow Williams "Tex" Settle and Army major Chester L. Fordney set a world altitude record in the Century of Progress stratospheric balloon on November 20, 1933 .
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