From left to right are: Frank Samuel Lahm, Major James C. McCoy who was the first person to obtain a balloon license, Colonel A. L. Fulton, Major Harry R. Vaughn, Colonel James Prentice, Major R. Lazaire, Colonel Henry B. Hersey.
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