Liste de ballons sortis de Paris pendant le siège 1870-1871

Broadside shows balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-71. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris with categories for balloon name, size, owner, balloonist, and number of pasengers and pigeons on board. Four illustrations show "Gonflement d'un ballon" (inflation of a balloon); "Descente au Montzid (Norwège)"; "Morte de Prince et LaCaze," (crash at sea); and "[A]grandissement des dépèches microscopiques a Tours & a Bordeaux par Dagron & ses collègues" (lecture by photographer Dagron).

Tissandier collection.