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Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Great fair on a grand scale - Victorian era public domain image

Great fair on a grand scale - Victorian era public domain image

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2829

Ils font ce qu'ils peuvent air [text] : ou, allez vous Mr. l'Abbé & c. / par Boucault.

Ils font ce qu'ils peuvent air [text] : ou, allez vous Mr. l'Abbé & c....

Leaflet with song about balloonists l'Abbé Miolan (or Miollan) and Janinet's unsuccessful attempt at an ascent from the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, 1784. The title page illustration captioned "Le globe en fumée"... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Air-balloons / A. Bell, sculpt.

Air-balloons / A. Bell, sculpt.

Book illustration shows five early balloon ascensions in France: two Montgolfier balloons (Fauxbourg St. Antoine and St. Germain); a 1784 balloon of Jean-Pierre Blanchard; and a Charles and Robert balloon being... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

The Stride of a century - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

The Stride of a century - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congr...

A cartoon celebrating the centennial of the United States. The figure of Brother Jonathan, a precursor of Uncle Sam, straddles the towers of the main building at the Philadelphia World's Fair of 1876. Between ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Arènes du sport aéronautique sous la direction de Eugène Godard ainé inauguration le dimanche 15 Mars 1885.

Arènes du sport aéronautique sous la direction de Eugène Godard ainé i...

Lithograph mounted on letterpress poster. Bella C. Landauer collection. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1964:R1.

L'air = El Aire = Die Luft. - Public domain book scan / drawing

L'air = El Aire = Die Luft. - Public domain book scan / drawing

Print shows balloon floating in background, while in the foreground a woman plays the harp while a man turns her music pages, and children play with a kite and other toys. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Pr... More

Men in basket of Zeppelin Air Ship

Men in basket of Zeppelin Air Ship

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gordon Bennett International Balloon Trophy goes to U.S. Army Air Corps. The Gordon Bennett International Balloon Trophy, property of the National Aeronautic Association by virtue of three victories by American Balloonists, was today presented to Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation F. Trubee Davison for the Army Air Corps for a year by Orville Wright, secretary of the Contest Committee of the Association An Army pilot, Captain W.G. Kemper, secured the trophy for America by winning the race from Detroit last year. In the photograph, left to right: Ray Cooper, of the National Aeronautic Association, who brought the trophy to Washington by airplane from Michigan; Brig. General Benjamin Foulois, Assistant Chief of the Army Air Corps; Secretary F. Trubee Davison; Orville Wright; and Porter Adams, president of the National Aeronautic Association

Gordon Bennett International Balloon Trophy goes to U.S. Army Air Corp...

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cheney award to U.S. Air Corps heroes. Washington, D.C., May 8. For their heroic work in rescuing a crew from a burning balloon which took off from Fort Sill, Okla., last July, Maj. Frederick D. Lynch and staff Sergt. Joseph L. Murray, both of the U.S. Army Air Corps, were today presented with the Cheney Award for 1936. U.S. Chief of staff Malin Craig made the presentation to the men at Bolling Field today. left to right: General Malin Craig, Maj. Frederick D. Lynch, and staff Sergt. Joseph L. Murray, 5/8/1937

Cheney award to U.S. Air Corps heroes. Washington, D.C., May 8. For th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

A lʹhippodrome - l'equilibre dans l'air / Lefman, sc.

A lʹhippodrome - l'equilibre dans l'air / Lefman, sc.

French caricature shows the balloonist Camille Dartois in a balloon labeled "Hippodrome" and Bradbury, a circus performer, standing while riding a horse at the Hippodrome, Paris. Illus. from: La grenouille, pr... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Weather signals recorded. add weather device. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. By means of this chronograph, Dr. L.V. Astin records the weather signals sent down from the radiometeorograph attached to the balloon as it soars anywhere from 9 to 11 miles in the upper air. 9/13/37

Weather signals recorded. add weather device. Washington, D.C., Sept. ...

Public domain photograph, 1910s-1920s portrait, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Le tricolore, Tissandier Collection, France

Le tricolore, Tissandier Collection, France

Print shows the French "Le Tricolore" balloon in the colors of the French flag with three passengers, possibly Jules Duruof, his wife, and another man, standing in the basket during an ascension in Paris, June ... More

[Palace of Fine Arts, as seen from the side, with a hot air balloon in the distance, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Palace of Fine Arts, as seen from the side, with a hot air balloon in...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

British barrage ballons. Type of British barrage ballons sent to this country under the lend-lease program. They are being used at Camp Tyson, Tennessee, for training purposes

British barrage ballons. Type of British barrage ballons sent to this ...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history for image. Contact print either attached to or in original negative jacket. Image source: Army photo fr... More

British barrage ballons. Type of British barrage ballons were sent to this country under the lend-lease program. They are being used at Camp Tyson, Tennessee, for training purposes

British barrage ballons. Type of British barrage ballons were sent to ...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Image source: Army photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Vauxhall. Mr. Green, Wednesday, July 31st / G. Webb, sc., 3 Snow Hill.

Vauxhall. Mr. Green, Wednesday, July 31st / G. Webb, sc., 3 Snow Hill.

Poster shows balloonist Charles Green on horseback suspended from an ascending balloon to advertise balloon ascensions in Vauxhall Gardens, London.

Amerikakoku. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Amerikakoku. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Japanese triptych print shows view in America of a crowd gathering to watch a balloon ascension.

["Pilot" climbing up rope to get into basket (gondola) suspended below observation kite balloon during training at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads, Virginia]

["Pilot" climbing up rope to get into basket (gondola) suspended below...

J232574 U.S. Copyright Office. Wittemann Collection. Copyright by The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.

[Hot air balloon] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Hot air balloon] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

[Cures d'air dans la montagne] / A. Robida.

[Cures d'air dans la montagne] / A. Robida.

Drawing shows an airship "Cures d'air" supporting the "Pension Bellevue" for individuals requiring medical care and floating above a mountainous region. One of the artist's conceptions for his book on life in t... More

[Chalet Simard, Pavilion of Bolivia, and the Pavilion of Nicaragua, with base of the Eiffel Tower, and in the far background, a hot air balloon, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Chalet Simard, Pavilion of Bolivia, and the Pavilion of Nicaragua, wi...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Austrian balloon to test air currents

Austrian balloon to test air currents

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barrage balloon manufacture. Tugging a finished half of a barrage balloon into position for joining with the other half. These workers have come to the final assembly step in producing barrage balloons for American air defense. Four steps in final production are shown in this photo: the half-balloon they are dragging in; the nose of a ship on the right which is in the process of being deflated for packing and shipping; and the inflated balloon in the background which is being inspected for final okay before being shipped. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Tugging a finished half of a barrage ball...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

KENLY, WILLIAM LACY. MAJ. FEN., U.S.A.; CHIEF OF AIR SERVICE, A.E.F., 1917; DIRECTOR, MILITARY AERONAUTICS, 1918-. BALLOONS

KENLY, WILLIAM LACY. MAJ. FEN., U.S.A.; CHIEF OF AIR SERVICE, A.E.F., ...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A man holding a large balloon on top of a pole. Office of War Information Photograph

A man holding a large balloon on top of a pole. Office of War Informat...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

[Le premier parachute de Jacques Garnerin, essayé par lui-même au parc de Mousseaux, le 22 octobre 1797]

[Le premier parachute de Jacques Garnerin, essayé par lui-même au parc...

Three technical illustrations show "Calotte du parachute" (crown of deployed parachute); "Parachute ployé, à l'instant du départe" (release from ascending balloon); and "Parachute déployé, à l'instant de la sép... More

L'air. Book illustration from Library of Congress

L'air. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows balloon floating in background near a windmill, while in the foreground a man plays the piano for a woman (singer?), and children play with a kite and other toys. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical... More

Cremorne Gardens ... Grand Victoria fete in honour of the Inauguration of the Exhibition of All Nations, by Her Majesty, on Thursday, May 1st, 1851 ...

Cremorne Gardens ... Grand Victoria fete in honour of the Inauguration...

Broadside announcing an inaugural festival for the Exhibition of All Nations, London, England, 1851. Includes a picture of the balloon "Erin-go-Bragh" to publicize an ascent by balloonist John Hampton during th... More

U.S. experts test weather device. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. Scientists of the National Bureau of Standards today conducted a test of the new radiometeorograph, a device attached to parachute and balloon and sent into the skies to radio back signals giving the pressure, temperature and humidity of the upper air. Preparing the balloon for the ascension are Dr. L.V. Astin, (left) of the Bureau's Electrical Division, and Dr. L.F. Curtiss, head of the Radium Division. The balloon carries the instrument as high as 50,000 or 60,000 feet. 9 to 11 miles high. Today's test was conducted for the U.S. Weather Bureau. 9/13/37

U.S. experts test weather device. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. Scientis...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a balloon being flown, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a balloon being flown, Great Depression. FS...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Fill 'er up! Tugging at the large hose, known as the "inflation sleeve", this worker stands inside the "manhole" of a new barrage balloon to guide the sleeve into the opening through which it will pump air to test the giant rubber balloon for leaks. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Fill 'er up! Tugging at the large hose, known as the "inflation sleeve...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a monument or sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Atmospheric conditions are transmitted by a weather radio instrument attached to the balloon which ascends to heights of fifteen to twenty miles

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The leathernecks make a strong medicine against Axis aircraft. Special marine units in training at Parris Island, South Carolina send up part of a tactical formation of barrage balloons that prevent dive bombing and the strafing of important ground installations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The leathernecks make a ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Ben Butler. Air:-Up In A Balloon

Ben Butler. Air:-Up In A Balloon

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning [Bernard Meiklejohn, World’s Work]

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

Weather Bureau men preparing to send up the balloon for weather data. Municipal airport, Washington, D.C

Weather Bureau men preparing to send up the balloon for weather data. ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning [Bernard Meiklejohn, World’s Work]

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning [Bernard Meiklejohn, World’s Work]

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning [Bernard Meiklejohn, World’s Work]

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

50,000 to 100,00 people gather at Point Mallard Park to see 65 balloons fly. The balloon festival began in 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. ... More

The post-sunset "glow" of tethered hot air balloons at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in the former mining town turned ski resort, but not when the Spring festival is in full swing

The post-sunset "glow" of tethered hot air balloons at the annual Tell...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning [Bernard Meiklejohn, World’s Work]

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning [Bernard Meiklejohn, World’s Work]

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

[Observation kite balloon in air with basket (gondola) suspended below, U.S. Naval Training Station, Hampton Roads, Virginia]

[Observation kite balloon in air with basket (gondola) suspended below...

J232564 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y. Wittemann Collection.

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Public domain photograph of a machine part, motor, equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ils font ce qu'ils peuvent air [text] : ou, allez vous Mr. l'Abbé & c. / par Boucault.

Ils font ce qu'ils peuvent air [text] : ou, allez vous Mr. l'Abbé & c....

Leaflet with song about balloonists l'Abbé Miolan (or Miollan) and Janinet's unsuccessful attempt at an ascent from the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, 1784. The title page illustration captioned "Le globe en fumée"... More

Balloon Survivors Tell Thrilling Tale of Ride; and Rules of the Air Closely Observed at Great Meet [The New York American, 23 October 1910]

Balloon Survivors Tell Thrilling Tale of Ride; and Rules of the Air Cl...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

R-34, George Grantham Bain Collection

R-34, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows British airship R34. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congres... More

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival, Decatur, Alabama

Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Balloon Survivors Tell Thrilling Tale of Ride; and Rules of the Air Closely Observed at Great Meet [The New York American, 23 October 1910]

Balloon Survivors Tell Thrilling Tale of Ride; and Rules of the Air Cl...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning [Bernard Meiklejohn, World’s Work]

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning [Bernard Meiklejohn, World’s Work]

The Conquest of the Air, The Story of Man’s Efforts to Fly- Ballooning...

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More