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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

Vista del globo areostatico que se hechò la tarde 12 de agosto. de 1792, en el jardin del buen Retiro el qual por la elevacion que tomo se perdio de vista y cayò en Daganzoas leguas de Madrid

Vista del globo areostatico que se hechò la tarde 12 de agosto. de 179...

Print shows Vincenzo Lunardi riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from Buon Retiro gardens, Madrid, August 12, 1792; the first balloon ascension in Spain. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.) Ti... More

[Portraits of three balloonists Ippolito Caffi, Francesco Arban, and G. Seiffard, with a small view of them in an ascending balloon]

[Portraits of three balloonists Ippolito Caffi, Francesco Arban, and G...

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Model of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, featuring a double profile portrait from a gold medal designed by Houdon and an inflated balloon] / H. Thiriat, sc.

[Model of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne...

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

Espérons que ce ballon d'essai ne deviendra pas un ballon captif / A. Danjay.

Espérons que ce ballon d'essai ne deviendra pas un ballon captif / A. ...

Cartoon shows a hot air balloon labeled "Suffrage Universel" with wings floating above the Pyrenees and headed toward a sign labeled "Espagne". Illus. from: Actualités, no. 248. Tissandier collection.

Sauvetage du ballon "Le Tricolore" Monté par Monsieur et Madame Duruof, naufragés sur les côtes d'Angleterre, et recueillis par le patron William Oxley et son Second du Port de Grimsby, le 1er Septembre 1874 / / Ch. Leduc ; Ch. Leduc, del. & lith.

Sauvetage du ballon "Le Tricolore" Monté par Monsieur et Madame Duruof...

Print shows Jules Duruof and his wife being rescued at sea from the sinking basket of their balloon "Le Tricolore" which lost altitude over the North Sea off the coast of England. Two fishermen help Mrs. Duruof... More

[Grand Balloon... de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878 -  Birds-eye view of Balloon before ascent from Tuillerie Gardens, Paris; large crowd and reviewing stands]

[Grand Balloon... de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878 - Birds-eye view of Ball...

This record contains unverified data from old caption card. Tissandier Collection. Sepia photoprint by Dagron.

Grand ballon captif a vapeur, de M. Henry Giffard [text].

Grand ballon captif a vapeur, de M. Henry Giffard [text].

Blank form for passengers to record "observations" (data) during ascents in Giffard's giant captive balloon from the Tuileries courtyard in the Paris Exposition of 1878. Tissandier collection.

Grand ballon captif à vapeur de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878

Grand ballon captif à vapeur de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878

Machinery for hauling the balloon in. This record contains unverified data from old caption card. Tissandier Collection.

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de Mr. Henry Giffard, Cour des Tuileries ...

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de Mr. Henry Giffard, Cour des Tuileries ...

Admission ticket to the ascent of Henri Giffard's captive balloon from the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris in 1879. Includes picture of a balloon within a bird's-eye view of Paris. Tissandier collection.

Le ballon rédaction et bureaux A. Brissonnet ... Paris.

Le ballon rédaction et bureaux A. Brissonnet ... Paris.

Clipping from an unknown book or magazine advertises the French aeronautical journal "Le ballon" and illustrates various means of flight including an ornithopter, early balloons and an airship. Text on verso a... More

Grande expérience aérienne par MM Thibault, Gourier & W. de Fonvielle esplanade des invalides dimanche 28 juin 1885 a 2 heures.

Grande expérience aérienne par MM Thibault, Gourier & W. de Fonvielle ...

Balloon in upper left corner identified as "Bolide" and parachute in center identified as "Coelus." Bella C. Landauer collection. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1964:R1.

Ville de Bruxelles, Parc Léopold ... dimanche 11 octobre 1885, de 2 à 4 hres. de l'après-midi. Grande fête aérostatique populaire ...

Ville de Bruxelles, Parc Léopold ... dimanche 11 octobre 1885, de 2 à ...

Broadside announcing balloon ascensions conducted by Eugene Godard in his balloon "Royal-St. Marceau" from the Parc Léopold, Brussels, Belgium, 1885. Includes picture of a balloon with six passengers. Tissandi... More

Wellman airship from "Trent" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Wellman airship from "Trent" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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

Lord Roberts' infantry crossing the Zand River - balloon watching ahead for the Boers, S.A.

Lord Roberts' infantry crossing the Zand River - balloon watching ahea...

De1915 U.S. Copyright Office. Boer War, South Africa. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

French soldiers Guard Zeppelin Balloon, Luneville

French soldiers Guard Zeppelin Balloon, Luneville

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

Balloon wrecked by Krupp gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Balloon wrecked by Krupp gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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

The balloon, Coney Island, New York City

The balloon, Coney Island, New York City

New York City. View down street of Coney Island, figures walking, ferris wheel dominates right side, tower frames left, with purplish balloon floating above in sky with trails of orange and yellow.

Balloon race, American balloon "Conqueror" bursting aloft, Berlin

Balloon race, American balloon "Conqueror" bursting aloft, Berlin

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

Oscar Erbsloh, ready to go up in balloon

Oscar Erbsloh, ready to go up in balloon

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

Balloon accident, Fort Sill - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Balloon accident, Fort Sill - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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

PRESIDENT GREETS STRATO FLYERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GREETS THE ARMY FLIERS WHO PILOTED THE STRATO BALLOON TO A NEW ALTITUDE RECORD OF 74,000 FEET IN SOUTH DAKOTA ON THE U.S. AIR CORP-NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FLIGHT. FROM THE LEFT: CAPT. ALBERT STEVENS; GEN. MALIN CRAIG, CHIEF OF STAFF; MAJ. GEN. OSCAR WESTOVER, ACTING CHIEF OF THE AIR CORPS; AND CAPT. ORVAL ANDERSON. CAPTAINS STEVENS AND ANDERSON, WHO MADE THE FLIGHT, PREDICT THAT THE EVENTUAL CEILING IS ABOUT 80,000 FEET, AND SAID THAT ANOTHER 1,000 FEET MIGHT HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THEIR RECORD BY USING HYDROGEN

PRESIDENT GREETS STRATO FLYERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GREETS THE ARMY FL...

A group of men standing around a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C., World War Two

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C., World War Two

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

Dr. Frank J. Ballon, Superintendent of School for District of Columbia, March 1939

Dr. Frank J. Ballon, Superintendent of School for District of Columbia...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C

12002-32. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Ellen Ballon, residence at 2 W. 67th St., New York City. Dining room II

Ellen Ballon, residence at 2 W. 67th St., New York City. Dining room I...

Public domain photograph of New York City interiors, 1940s, 1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ellen Ballon, residence at 2 W. 67th St., New York City. Bedroom  I

Ellen Ballon, residence at 2 W. 67th St., New York City. Bedroom I

Public domain photograph of the 1940s-1950s New York City interiors, bedroom, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barrage balloon manufacture. All out for defense! Scrambling out of the zipper-covered "manhole" in the nose of a gigantic barrage balloon, this worker has finished patching, touching up and checking the great bag, and is ready to give the signal to deflate the balloon, pack it and ship it to Uncle Sam's army training fields where balloon squadrons are learning the technique of handling the blimp-sized gas bags. This ship is of the ballonet type. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. All out for defense! Scrambling out of th...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Running up the barrage balloon

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people standing in front of a large air balloon. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people standing in front of a large air balloon. Office of ...

Photographed by Alfred Palmer or Pat Terry. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Bedding down a big barrage balloon is just another job that the leathernecks take in stride as special marine units are trained at Parris Island, South Carolina. "Purging" it with fresh gas before it goes aloft again and running it up into a tactical formation under control of a steel cable are other features of a technique at which the marines have become very proficient

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Bedding down a big barra...

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

Parris Island, South Carolina. Brigadier General Emile Moses talking over barrage balloon tactics with a Marine Corps lieutenant of the U.S. Marines Corps glider detachment training camp

Parris Island, South Carolina. Brigadier General Emile Moses talking o...

Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of people that are on a boat. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of people that are on a boat. Office of War Information Photo...

Photographed by Alfred Palmer or Pat Terry. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... 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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the ground prior to their ascent shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the g...

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

A cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

A cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after dawn, when t...

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

Rivista aerostatica Grossi - Print, Library of Congress collection

Rivista aerostatica Grossi - Print, Library of Congress collection

Italian political cartoon shows the aftermath of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of Berlin; from left, a bottle-shaped airship labeled "Cipro", "Congresso", and "Angleterre", with a figure identified as J... More

[Comic scene involving balloons and people surveying the Moon]

[Comic scene involving balloons and people surveying the Moon]

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with people spying on human-bat creatures on the Moon as other people are transported between Earth and the Moon by way of a balloon basket. Landauer Co... More

Balloon ascension to the presidential chair

Balloon ascension to the presidential chair

Reflecting Whig preelection confidence in the campaign of 1844, the artist portrays that party's ascendancy over the Democrats in the race for the presidency. Bucholzer uses the metaphor of a hot-air balloon ra... More

Allarme générale des habitants de Gonesse occasionée par la chûte du ballon aréostatique de Mr. de Mongolfier

Allarme générale des habitants de Gonesse occasionée par la chûte du b...

Vue d'optique shows the unmanned gas balloon, "The Globe," which frightened the villagers in Gonesse, France after landing there on August 27, 1783.

Mr. Blanchard accompagné de Mr. Gefferies est parti ... entre Calais et Boulogne

Mr. Blanchard accompagné de Mr. Gefferies est parti ... entre Calais e...

Print shows Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jefferies arriving in Calais after crossing the English Channel in a hot air balloon. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings. Dollfus 40; Gibbs-Smith... More

Fort Worden Balloon Hangar, North of W Street, west of Fort Worden Way, Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA

Fort Worden Balloon Hangar, North of W Street, west of Fort Worden Way...

Significance: The Fort Worden Balloon Hangar is one of two surviving such hangars of the six built, constructed on U.S. military forts during the 1920s to house observation balloons. The design appears to have... More

Fort Worden Balloon Hangar, North of W Street, west of Fort Worden Way, Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA

Fort Worden Balloon Hangar, North of W Street, west of Fort Worden Way...

Significance: The Fort Worden Balloon Hangar is one of two surviving such hangars of the six built, constructed on U.S. military forts during the 1920s to house observation balloons. The design appears to have... More

En ballon / dessiné par Nadar ; gravé par Hildibrand.

En ballon / dessiné par Nadar ; gravé par Hildibrand.

Series of twelve cartoons, each separately captioned, shows two men, Vagissel and Barnichon, who ride in a balloon to get a bird's-eye view of the ground below. However, after enduring extremes of weather and ... More

Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Hanger No. 1, Cummins Avenue, Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, CA

Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Hanger No. 1, Cummins Avenue, Moffett...

Significance: In the nation's quest to provide security for the lengthy expanse of its coastlines the opportunity for air reconnaissance was realized by the futuristic Admiral William A. Moffett. Through his ef... More

[Title page and frontispiece to Jean-Pierre Blanchard's Journal of my forty-fifth ascension..., showing a balloon with a man holding an American flag]

[Title page and frontispiece to Jean-Pierre Blanchard's Journal of my ...

Illus. in: Journal of my forty-fifth ascension : being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793. Philadelphia : Printed by Charles Cist ..., 1793. Title page and frontispiece. Published in... More

Elevazione aereobatica eseguita da Francezco Orlandi in Bologna nei puba. giardini li 6 Novembre 1828

Elevazione aereobatica eseguita da Francezco Orlandi in Bologna nei pu...

Print shows the balloon of Francesco Orlandi ascending over the public gardens of Bologna, Italy, November 6, 1828. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.) Tissandier collection.

[Balloon with parachute and propellers, associated with Francesco Orlandi, flying over a town harbor and spectators, possibly during an ascent in Italy between 1820 and 1850]

[Balloon with parachute and propellers, associated with Francesco Orla...

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

Ils montaient, ils montaient toujours, Political Cartoon

Ils montaient, ils montaient toujours, Political Cartoon

French political cartoon shows a greedy Louis Napoleon trying to climb higher by hanging onto the ropes of a balloon, topped with a crown. The basket breaks free spilling bags of money, and a woman and a child ... More

Éxperience du globe ae̋rostatique du MM. Charles et Robert, au Jardin des Thuileries le 1er decembre 1783

Éxperience du globe ae̋rostatique du MM. Charles et Robert, au Jardin ...

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (S... More

Mr. Pennington's steam balloon, signs of the times : The Oregon

Mr. Pennington's steam balloon, signs of the times : The Oregon

Print shows an early design for a dirigible-shaped "aerostat" that is powered by steam which drives side-paddles; includes a smokestack at top center and flags at both ends. Includes five lines of text and two... More

Ballon Godard / H.L.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Ballon Godard / H.L.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Collecting card shows an ascending balloon with one person on board.

Up in a Balloon - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

Up in a Balloon - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

LOT subdivision subject: Transportation. Title and other information transcribed from item. Copyright by Wm. A. Pond & Co. No caption card found.

Champ-de-Mars. Première ascension aérostatique du ballon le Pole Nord executee le dimanche 27 juin, a cinq heures, au profit de l'expedition de M. Gustave Lambert ...

Champ-de-Mars. Première ascension aérostatique du ballon le Pole Nord ...

Broadside announcing an ascension of the giant balloon "Le Pole Nord" from the Champ-de-Mars, Paris, June 27, 1869. Proceeds from the event, organized by balloonists Wilfrid de Fonvielle and Gaston Tissandier,... More

[Aerialist wearing wings strapped to his shoulders and feet while suspended from a balloon]

[Aerialist wearing wings strapped to his shoulders and feet while susp...

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

Ascension du 26 septembre 1876, 700 mètres / Albert Tissandier.

Ascension du 26 septembre 1876, 700 mètres / Albert Tissandier.

Drawing shows Gaston and Albert Tissandier ascending in their balloon, "Zénith." (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82)

[Tribute to French ballonist Henri Giffard in the form of a handwritten French text shaped as a balloon, inside a printed floral border] / C.T. ; Clarey & Gibert, Tours.

[Tribute to French ballonist Henri Giffard in the form of a handwritte...

Tribute written by Mr. Wrabelly of Hungary, town of Pressbourg (Bratislava), on the occasion of seeing the giant Giffard balloon exhibited in the Tuileries gardens during his visit to the World Exposition held ... More

Joseph Montgolfier de l'Academie des sciences, belles lettres, et artes de Lyon, inveniteur de la machine aerostatique ou ballon / Héliog. & imp. J. & A. Lemercier.

Joseph Montgolfier de l'Academie des sciences, belles lettres, et arte...

Half-length portrait of French balloonist Joseph Montgolfier, with a glass chamber related to his experiments with gas for balloon flight. "DB 1784" printed below portrait. Tissandier collection.

[Félix Nadar, half-length portrait, standing in the basket of a balloon, holding binoculars]

[Félix Nadar, half-length portrait, standing in the basket of a balloo...

"Dans votre Elixer de longue vie, ... Marseilles, Jan. '97, Nadar" printed below image. Tissandier collection.

On to the abyss / J.S. Pughe. - Drawing. Public domain image.

On to the abyss / J.S. Pughe. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a huge throng of people, some carrying banners labeled "Populism, Silverites, [and] Socialists", eagerly following a fairy labeled "Paternalism" carrying a transparent balloon or bag labeled "Govern... More

Paulhan in aeroplane greets his wife in a balloon, both in flight

Paulhan in aeroplane greets his wife in a balloon, both in flight

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Accident: Paulhan at Reims - Public domain portrait photograph

Accident: Paulhan at Reims - Public domain portrait photograph

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Filling Army balloon - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Filling Army balloon - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Balloon Ascension - Concord State Fair, Concord, N.H.

Balloon Ascension - Concord State Fair, Concord, N.H.

Crowd watching from field and from grandstand. Photoprint copyrighted by W.G.C. Kimball, Concord, N.H. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fairs; New Hampshire Co... More

Panoramic view of Electric Tower from a balloon /

Panoramic view of Electric Tower from a balloon /

"Here we have recorded a very novel scene, the camera having been placed in the basket of the captive balloon at the Pan-American Exposition. It was then slowly elevated to the top of the Tower, a distance of 4... More

Lord Roberts' army advancing toward Johannesburg - 84th Battery and Balloon Corps, S.A.

Lord Roberts' army advancing toward Johannesburg - 84th Battery and Ba...

Boer War, South Africa. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business] /

[Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business] /

"Shows an Italian balloon vender near the "Flat-iron" Building, New York City. Mrs. Brown and Buster appear on the scene. Buster begins teasing his mamma to buy him a balloon, but she refuses. Buster whistles f... More

U.S. Signal Corps with balloon during operations at Ft. Myer, Virginia, 1907

U.S. Signal Corps with balloon during operations at Ft. Myer, Virginia...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. U-107105. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.

Balloon in flight during U.S. Signal Corps operations at Ft. Myer, Virginia, 1907

Balloon in flight during U.S. Signal Corps operations at Ft. Myer, Vir...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 107091. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.

Filling balloon on Wanamaker's - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Filling balloon on Wanamaker's - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photo shows men inflating a hydrogen balloon, "Wanamaker no. 1," on the roof of the John Wanamaker store, Broadway and Tenth Ave., New York City, to travel to Philadelphia. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009... More

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C., World War Two

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C., World War Two

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

Ellen Ballon, residence at 2 W. 67th St., New York City. Living room window view with picture

Ellen Ballon, residence at 2 W. 67th St., New York City. Living room w...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A man and a woman holding a large balloon. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

A man and a woman holding a large balloon. War Poduction. Office of Wa...

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

Barrage balloon manufacture. Fitting a manhold vent in the sidewall of a barrage balloon. These workers are putting in the final pieces of equipment on a completed barrage balloon, just prior to its deflation, packing and shipping to an army air base. In the foreground is a balloon ready for test inflation with air which will also be inspected during inflation. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Fitting a manhold vent in the sidewall of...

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

A man holding a large white balloon in the air. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

A man holding a large white balloon in the air. War Poduction. Office ...

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

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

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Kindergarten children practicing a balloon dance in the gymnasium for their May Day festival

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Kindergarten children pr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Bedding down a big barrage balloon is just another job that the leathernecks take in stride as special marine units are trained at Parris Island, South Carolina. "Purging" it with fresh gas before it goes aloft again and running it up into a tactical formation under control of a steel cable are other features of a technique at which the marines have become very proficient

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Bedding down a big barra...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island, South Carolina. Special Marine units in training at Parris Island are learning how to bed down a big barrage balloon

Parris Island, South Carolina. Special Marine units in training at Par...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island. Marine Corps. "Old Swampy's behaving pretty good today." Marines of a balloon barrage unit training at Parris Island have a good word to say for one of the big bags that has gained a reputation for temperamental performance

Parris Island. Marine Corps. "Old Swampy's behaving pretty good today....

Public domain photograph of South Carlina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp. Running up the barrage balloon

Parris Island, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment tra...

Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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...

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

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. High frequency radio receiver recording signals from small radio transmitter attached to radios on a balloon aloft. The signals reveal temperature, humidity and pressure at various altitudes

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

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Pilot balloon being released to determine wind direction and velocity aloft

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

Annotation on negative or original negative jacket. This image in a jacket marked "Killed" Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pict... More

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Pilot balloon being released to determine wind direction and velocity aloft

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

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

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. This high frequency radio transmitter is small, but very effective. It is attached to a large balloon and transmitts signals which reveal temperature, humidity and pressure

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

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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the ground prior to their ascent shortly after dawn, when the sky is most often fair and winds calm, at the annual Telluride Balloon Festival in that old Colorado mining town turned popular skiing destination, but not in Spring when the balloons are rising

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons bob and weave on the g...

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

Shortly after landing, colorful balloons delight the assembled crowd with a night glow as pilots fire the burners on the ground at the National Balloon Classic, a hot air balloon exhibition in Indianola, Iowa, a town near the state capital of Des Moines

Shortly after landing, colorful balloons delight the assembled crowd w...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Birds eye or balloon view of Rocky Point. Narragansett Bay, R.I.

Birds eye or balloon view of Rocky Point. Narragansett Bay, R.I.

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the waterfront at Rocky Point, Warwick, Rhode Island, with a large building, possibly a hotel, and pavilions on the grounds, and a steamboat named the "Bay Queen" taking on pass... More

Oblate Hispanic Mission procession, Lowell, Massachusettsachusetts

Oblate Hispanic Mission procession, Lowell, Massachusettsachusetts

Index data: The following photographs were made during the Oblate Hispanic procession. 1-2, Parade procession. Good photos; 3-8, Procession entering church. 5 and 7 are good photos; 9, Doug DeNatale recording c... More

Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia

Professor Lowe's military balloon near Gaines Mill, Virginia

Inflation of the balloon Intrepid to reconnoiter the Battle of Fair Oaks; Lowe, not visible in this image, is standing to the right of the balloon. No. 2350. Inscribed on item: Copyright 1910 by Patriot Publis... More

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