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Le grand ballon captif des Tuileries / Yves & Barret, sc.

Le grand ballon captif des Tuileries / Yves & Barret, sc.

Broadside announcing Henri Giffard's captive balloon ascension in the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris. Includes picture of passengers in the basket of the giant balloon. Tissandier collection.

[Captive balloon with clock face and bell, floating above the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France] / Camille Grávis.

[Captive balloon with clock face and bell, floating above the Eiffel T...

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

Ascension captive. 42, avenue de Suffren tous les jours de 1 à 5 h. Exposition de l'aérostat et des machines ... / / Cosson Smeeton.

Ascension captive. 42, avenue de Suffren tous les jours de 1 à 5 h. Ex...

Broadside announcing a captive balloon ascension during the Paris Exposition of 1867. Includes pictures of the balloon being inflated ("Le Gonflement") and spectators watching the captive balloon ascend in the ... More

[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.

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.

Ascensione del cave. Emile Julhes, capitano areonauta [i.e. aeronauta]

Ascensione del cave. Emile Julhes, capitano areonauta [i.e. aeronauta]

Italian poster shows two men in a captive balloon labeled "Italia"; the uniformed man sits on the hoop, and the other stands in the basket waving a cloth. Tissandier collection.

["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.

Aerial voyages over London Ashburnham Park, King's Road, Chelsea.

Aerial voyages over London Ashburnham Park, King's Road, Chelsea.

Caption continues: May 1st and every day (weather permitting) from 1 till 7, with the immense and new steam captive balloon, constructed on the same system as that which acted with such success at the Universal... More

Le captif, grand ballon à vapeur, de la Place du Carrousel

Le captif, grand ballon à vapeur, de la Place du Carrousel

Advertisement announcing Henri Giffard's captive balloon ascension at the Place du Carrousel, Paris. Describes Giffard's previous ascension at the Tuileries in 1878 and includes a picture of a captive balloon. ... More

Chateau aérien. Ballon captif à cloisons étanches, système Tobiansky. Exposition universelle 1894.

Chateau aérien. Ballon captif à cloisons étanches, système Tobiansky. ...

Belgian poster shows an air station suspended by a captive balloon at the 1894 world's fair in Antwerp, Belgium. Advertises Alfred Tobiansky d'Altoff's patented device for moving passengers from a platform on t... More

Observation balloons near Coblenz, Germany - stereocsopic card

Observation balloons near Coblenz, Germany - stereocsopic card

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18945. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

[Captive balloon with clock face and bell, floating above the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France] / Camille Grávis.

[Captive balloon with clock face and bell, floating above the Eiffel T...

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

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries, Paris, 1878 / Yves & Barret, sc.

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries, Paris, 1878 / Y...

Broadside announcing the ascension of Henri Giffard's giant captive balloon from the courtyard of the Tuileries during the Paris Exposition of 1878. Includes picture of the giant balloon stationed at the center... More

Panorama de Paris. Vu de la nacelle du grand ballon captif à vapeur de la cour des Tuileries

Panorama de Paris. Vu de la nacelle du grand ballon captif à vapeur de...

French poster shows the basket of Henri Giffard's captive balloon and a bird's-eye view of Paris to advertise balloon ascensions at the 1878 world's fair.

Captive balloon and Ferris wheel, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago

Captive balloon and Ferris wheel, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicag...

Copyright by C.D. Arnold. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries, Paris, 1878 / Yves & Barret, sc.

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries, Paris, 1878 / Y...

Broadside announcing the ascension of Henri Giffard's giant captive balloon from the courtyard of the Tuileries during the Paris Exposition of 1878. Includes picture of the giant balloon stationed at the center... More

Panorama de Paris. Vu de la nacelle du grand ballon captif à vapeur de la cour des Tuileries

Panorama de Paris. Vu de la nacelle du grand ballon captif à vapeur de...

French poster shows the basket of Henri Giffard's captive balloon and a bird's-eye view of Paris to advertise balloon ascensions at the 1878 world's fair.

[Design drawing for system to raise and lower a captive balloon, controlled by four ropes forming a pyramidal shape and operated by winches on the ground below] / M.G.

[Design drawing for system to raise and lower a captive balloon, contr...

(Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.) Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Le ballon captif! / Wogel. - Public domain image related to music prformance, drawing

Le ballon captif! / Wogel. - Public domain image related to music prfo...

Drawing shows a captive balloon designed by Henri Giffard and exhibited in 1867, displayed in a city plaza, with two men conversing in foreground and a uniformed guard. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82... More

Notre drapeau / Alfred Le Petit.

Notre drapeau / Alfred Le Petit.

French caricature of Léon Gambetta, French republican statesman, holding the French flag and a telescope, seated atop a captive balloon, possibly at the Exposition universelle de 1878 in Paris. Caption below i... More

Le ballon captif de la cour des Tuileries, construit par M. Giffard, ingénieur à Paris / Lef, sc.

Le ballon captif de la cour des Tuileries, construit par M. Giffard, i...

Broadside announcing one of Henri Giffard's balloon ascensions in 1878 and 1879 from the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris. Includes picture of the captive balloon floating over the courtyard. Tissandier collection.

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries / Yves & Barret, sc.

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries / Yves & Barret,...

Broadside announcing the ascension of Henri Giffard's giant captive balloon from the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris, probably during the Paris Exposition of 1878. Includes picture of the giant balloon statio... More

[Lower part of a large captive balloon moored to a launching platform showing network of ropes and balloon basket with about 10 occupants] / E. A. Tilly.

[Lower part of a large captive balloon moored to a launching platform ...

Date based on similar print by same artist that depicts an event from 1883. Tissandier collection.

[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.

Le ballon captif à vapeur de Mr. Henri Giffard, à Londres, mai 1869 / A. Tissandier.

Le ballon captif à vapeur de Mr. Henri Giffard, à Londres, mai 1869 / ...

Drawing shows the giant captive balloon constructed by Henri Giffard for the Paris Exhibition of 1867 and brought to London, England, in 1868 and 1869. Balloon is moored at launching site; with numerous onlooke... More

Attaching observation balloon to winch for towing into position, Army of Occupation, Weissenburg, Germany

Attaching observation balloon to winch for towing into position, Army ...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18736. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Le grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries (1879), M. Henry Giffard, ingénieur-constructeur / Yves & Barret, sc.

Le grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries (1879), M. He...

Broadside announcing the ascension of Henri Giffard's captive balloon in the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris. Includes picture of the giant balloon with passengers in the basket.

Observation balloons near Coblenz, Germany - stereocsopic card

Observation balloons near Coblenz, Germany - stereocsopic card

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18945. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Vorderseite des Marsfeldes, am 1 Vendemiaire des Jahres VII. Wettrennen. Verbrennen einer hölzernen Burg, durch Aerostaten.

Vorderseite des Marsfeldes, am 1 Vendemiaire des Jahres VII. Wettrenne...

German print shows an imaginary view of the festivities at the Champ de Mars in Paris, France, on September 22, 1798. Includes a chariot race, captive balloon, and burning wooden castle, with spectators watchi... More

Attaching observation balloon to winch for towing into position, Army of Occupation, Weissenburg, Germany

Attaching observation balloon to winch for towing into position, Army ...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18736. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More