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Near east relief lawn fete - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Near east relief lawn fete - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

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Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Setting up balloon barrages is just another chore for the versatile marines. Special units in training at Parris Island, South Carolina handle the big bag with customary marine snap and precision

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Setting up balloon barra...

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Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

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Parade of the balloons, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

Parade of the balloons, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck throws his weight on a line, things come his way.  A member of a marine balloon barrage unit in training at Parris Island, South Carolina helps to ground one of the big bags that the Corps has added to its kit of fighting tools

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck...

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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.

Colorful and 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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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

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

Crews get the morning assembly of balloons started at the Telluride Balloon Festival in Telluride, Colorado

Crews get the morning assembly of balloons started at the Telluride Ba...

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

[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

Moyen infaillible d'enlever les Balloons

Moyen infaillible d'enlever les Balloons

Caricature of infallible means of raising a hot air balloon, by passing gas into it; satirical poem and illus. of ascension of Montgolfier brothers' balloon. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawi... More

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Balloon ascension at Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska.

Balloon ascension at Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group of boys watching bunch of balloons ascending]

[Group of boys watching bunch of balloons ascending]

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Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

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Barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

Barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the Axis. Sections of a marine balloon barrage over Paris Island, South Carolina. The swaying balloons with their trailing cables and steel winch lines make dive bombing and ground strafing of important locations too costly in planes and crews

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the ...

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the Axis. Sections of a marine balloon barrage over Paris Island, South Carolina. The swaying balloons with their trailing cables and steel winch lines make dive bombing and ground strafing of important locations too costly in planes and crews

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the ...

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

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

Colorful and 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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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

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

Colorful balloons delight the assembled crowd with a night glow as pil...

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

Colorful and 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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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 Grosvenor balloon vs. the Reed ladder

The Grosvenor balloon vs. the Reed ladder

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

[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

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, May 14, 1899
[Nine camp scenes] - Public domain scan / drawing

[Nine camp scenes] - Public domain scan / drawing

Title devised. Each scene is identified from left to right: The ice cart; city point; the water cart; Takeing [sic] Photographs; view from Dr. Starkes plantation; bringing goods ashore; searching for whiskey; n... More

Vendors. Vendor of balloons, Washington DC

Vendors. Vendor of balloons, Washington DC

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people walking down a street, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

A group of people walking down a street, Louisiana. Farmers during Gre...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. Like a row of dirigible balloons, the propane gas storage tanks rest upon the floor of the southern Nevada desert at Basic Magnesium's giant plant, where magnesium is produced

Las Vegas, Nevada. Like a row of dirigible balloons, the propane gas s...

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage b...

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

Parris Island, South Carolina. Tactical formations of barrage balloons prevent dive bombing and the strafing of important ground installations. The Leathernecks are developing an excellent technique in this method of protecting important locations from enemy aircraft

Parris Island, South Carolina. Tactical formations of barrage balloons...

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The leathernecks get a new job and, as usual, handle it well. A barrage balloon ready to go aloft under the handling of special marine units in training at Parris Island, South Carolina

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The leathernecks get a n...

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

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 19, 1901 to August 31, 1901

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from July 19, 1901 to August 31, 190...

Alexander Graham Bell Papers. Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Grande semaine d'aviation de la Champagne: Reims de 22 au 29 août 1909 / / E. Montaut.

Grande semaine d'aviation de la Champagne: Reims de 22 au 29 août 1909...

Advertising poster for an air show in Reims, France, showing a woman waving to a man piloting a biplane as other aircraft including monoplanes, biplanes, and balloons fly above the Notre Dame de Reims cathedral.

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
[Five technical illustrations show network of ropes and apparatus for securing multi-passenger platforms on captive balloons; arrangement of ropes for netting; and an elaborate hydrogen manufacturing and pumping station for inflating balloons] / A. Tissandier.

[Five technical illustrations show network of ropes and apparatus for ...

Scale "Échelle de 0m.015 pour 1 mètre" on two prints. "Giffard" inscribed bottom left. Tissandier collection.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The Marines have the situation well in hand. That goes for everything they tackle -- like this barrage balloon, for example. The special Marine Corps units at Parris Island, South Carolina gain proficiency with this new fighting tool that the leathernecks have taken over

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The Marines have the sit...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[President Gerald Ford, First Lady Betty Ford, Senator Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole celebrate winning the nomination amidst floating balloons at the Republican National Convention, Kansas City, Missouri]

[President Gerald Ford, First Lady Betty Ford, Senator Bob Dole and El...

Contact sheet folder caption: Republican National Convention in Kansas City Pres. Ford & family, Sen. Dole & family, Ronald Reagan & wife & vice-president Rockefeller on the podium, 8/16-19/76. JTB. U.S. News ... More

U.S. and Italian flags; green, red and white balloons in front of the Montescaglioso Club.

U.S. and Italian flags; green, red and white balloons in front of the ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual San Rocco procession, sponsored by the Montescaglioso Club of Paterson, as it passes through the People's Park neighborhood of Paterson, New Jersey.

Shortly after landing, colorful balloons are prepared for a night glow in which 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 are prepared for a night glow...

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

Colorful and 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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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

[Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonists Albert Tissandier (left) and Gaston Tissandier (right) inside an oval, with vignettes above of balloons "Zenith" and "Jean Bart" and an airship below] / Boulard, fils.

[Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonists Albert Tissandier (...

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

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
[Design drawing for a navigational system for an airship employing six balloons and parachutes, a deck, superstructure, and basket below]

[Design drawing for a navigational system for an airship employing six...

Tissandier collection. Public domain image of an airship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Glorious Fourth--sending up the fire balloon / C.S. Reinhart, del.

The Glorious Fourth--sending up the fire balloon / C.S. Reinhart, del.

Ten men, women, and children watching hot air balloon go up; fireworks on ground.

Henri Lachambre, aéronaute-constructeur breveté, Paris. 24, Passage des Favorites, 24. Paris / Fievoir(?) dele.

Henri Lachambre, aéronaute-constructeur breveté, Paris. 24, Passage de...

Advertisement for aeronaut and balloon manufacturer Henri Lachambre shows a balloon "H. Lachambre" with two passengers floating through a scene of animals, circus performers, and toy balloons.

Balloons on field prior to start of race, Indianapolis

Balloons on field prior to start of race, Indianapolis

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

Lucky boys who captured balloons after they had been released from White House with tickets attached for the Wash.-St. Louis game, for the benefit of the Boys Club, 230 C St., N.W.

Lucky boys who captured balloons after they had been released from Whi...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The leathernecks get a new job and, as usual, handle it well. A barrage balloon ready to go aloft under the handling of special marine units in training at Parris Island, South Carolina

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The leathernecks get a n...

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage b...

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

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 ...

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

Marine Corps barrage balloons. The Marines have the situation well in hand. That goes for anything they tackle -- like this barrage balloon, for example. Special Marine Corps units at Parris Island, South Carolina gain rare proficiency with this new fighting tool that the leathernecks have taken over

Marine Corps barrage balloons. The Marines have the situation well in ...

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

Balloons as a space creature in the showcase parade of all things extraterrestrial-like at McMinnville Oregon's, annual McMenamins UFO Festival

Balloons as a space creature in the showcase parade of all things extr...

Founded in 1999, this three-day event began at the historic McMenamins Hotel in memory of the celebrated 1950 "Trent sighting" and photographs of a purported flying saucer at a nearby farm. Skeptics have conclu... More

Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
Journal by Alexander Graham Bell, from September 2, 1901 to October 29, 1901
[Four scenes of men and women courting(?) while riding in balloons captioned with rebuses ]

[Four scenes of men and women courting(?) while riding in balloons cap...

Tissandier collection. Public domain photograph of electric motor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Girl with wings holding presents and balloons and standing between two cats]

[Girl with wings holding presents and balloons and standing between tw...

(DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as headpiece and initial for: "The Little Girl-Magnet" by Clara Greenleaf Perry, St. Nicholas, 38:129 (Dec. 1910).

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., ...

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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.

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

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing 3 modern (ca. 1975) children play outdoors; with bell-bottoms, balloons, butterfly, tree stump, patch or shield with water and compass rose]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing 3 modern (ca. 1975) c...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

Marine Corps barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage b...

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

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

Colorful balloons delight the assembled crowd with a night glow as pil...

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

Colorful and 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

Colorful and cleverly designed hot-air balloons ascend shortly after d...

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

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

Portrait photo of Balloons at rest, Arcadia, Cal.

Portrait photo of Balloons at rest, Arcadia, Cal.

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

Portrait photo of Balloons at rest, Arcadia, Cal.

Portrait photo of Balloons at rest, Arcadia, Cal.

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing 3 modern (ca. 1975) children play outdoors; with bell-bottoms, balloons, butterfly, tree stump, patch or shield with water and compass rose]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing 3 modern (ca. 1975) c...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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 ...

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Marines in training at Parris Island, South Carolina, add one more fighting trick to the many they already know. These fast, powerful tractors are used for positioning power winches from which tactical formations of barrage balloons are controlled

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Marines in training at P...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Setting up balloon barrages is just another chore for the versatile marines. Special units in training at Parris Island, South Carolina handle the big bag with customary marine snap and precision

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Setting up balloon barra...

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

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Tropical palms of India partially hide a great stockpile of war equipment at an Indian port city. Much of this material has been supplied to India under lend-lease. One of the protecting barrage balloons can be seen in the picture

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Tropical palms of...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

The Grosvenor balloon vs. the Reed ladder

The Grosvenor balloon vs. the Reed ladder

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

Preparing for a U.S. Signal Corps balloon ascension at Ft. Myer (Arlington), Virginia

Preparing for a U.S. Signal Corps balloon ascension at Ft. Myer (Arlin...

No. 107090. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Orme Thornberry, balloon girl at the Near East Relief Benefit Garden Fete]

Mrs. Orme Thornberry, balloon girl at the Near East Relief Benefit Gar...

Woman holding balloons. National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lieut. W. Reed, Pensacola, Florida, and Chief Rigger Kit Mallenax of Pensacola, flyers of one of the Navy balloons in the Milwaukee race, standing under balloon]

[Lieut. W. Reed, Pensacola, Florida, and Chief Rigger Kit Mallenax of ...

No. CH 14904. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, Chicago. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Balloon barrage training center. Aerial octopus. This strange looking creature is a tail view of one of the barrage balloons prompting the above title. The lower fin is filled with gas last as it is slowly raised from the ground. Camp Tyson, Tennessee

Balloon barrage training center. Aerial octopus. This strange looking ...

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. A couple of husky marines and the ground tackle of a barrage balloon don't take long getting acquainted. Special Marine Corps units in training at Parris Island, South Carolina add balloon barrage technique to their large repertoire of fighting methods

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. A couple of husky marine...

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck throws his weight on a line, things come his way.  A member of a Marine balloon barrage unit in training at Parris Island, South Carolina helps to ground one of the big bags that the Corps has added to its kit of fighting tools

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The Marines have the situation well in hand. That goes for everything they tackle -- like this barrage balloon, for example. The special Marine Corps units at Parris Island, South Carolina gain proficiency with this new fighting tool that the leathernecks have taken over

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The Marines have the sit...

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage b...

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

[Bird's-eye view of landing craft, barrage balloons, and allied troops landing in Normandy, France on D-Day] / U.S. Maritime Commission photo.

[Bird's-eye view of landing craft, barrage balloons, and allied troops...

Photo by U.S. Maritime Commission. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

U.S. and Italian flags; green, red and white balloons in front of the Montescaglioso Club.

U.S. and Italian flags; green, red and white balloons in front of the ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual San Rocco procession, sponsored by the Montescaglioso Club of Paterson, as it passes through the People's Park neighborhood of Paterson, New Jersey.

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

Colorful balloons delight the assembled crowd with a night glow as pil...

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

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

Man selling souvenirs, balloons, canes, etc., to the spectators at Point-to-Point Cup race. Worthington Valley, near Glyndon, Maryland

Man selling souvenirs, balloons, canes, etc., to the spectators at Poi...

Public domain photograph of picnic, leisure time, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage b...

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

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage b...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the Axis. Sections of a marine balloon barrage over Paris Island, South Carolina. The swaying balloons with their trailing cables and steel winch lines make dive bombing and ground strafing of important locations too costly in planes and crews

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Another stopper for the ...

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

Shortly after landing, colorful balloons including a saucy inflated parrot, are prepared for a night glow in which 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 including a saucy inflated pa...

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

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