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City desk / World-Telegram photo by Fred Palumbo.

City desk / World-Telegram photo by Fred Palumbo.

Newspaper editorial staff in the newsroom. NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph 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.

Projet dʹenceinte pour gonflement dʹaerostat / J. Chavoutier, architecte, r. Louis LeGrand 37, Paris.

Projet dʹenceinte pour gonflement dʹaerostat / J. Chavoutier, architec...

Design drawing of a circular enclosed area for inflating balloons featuring underground pipe lines. Includes site plan and section, with balloon tethered in position Tissandier collection.

Projet dʹenceinte pour gonflement dʹaerostat / J. Chavoutier, architecte, r. Louis LeGrand 37, Paris.

Projet dʹenceinte pour gonflement dʹaerostat / J. Chavoutier, architec...

Design drawing of a circular enclosed area for inflating balloons featuring underground pipe lines. Includes site plan and section. Tissandier collection.

Fearful balloon adventure-- saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman murdered by her son and daughter.

Fearful balloon adventure-- saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman m...

Front page of British illustrated newspaper shows two stories. Above, a man and woman (possibly balloonist Jules Duruof and his wife) cling to a balloon basket in a stormy sea, with rescue boat approaching. Bel... More

[Scaled design drawing for the valve assembly of a balloon, including top, bottom, and side views] / J. Chavoutier, architecte, r. Louis LeGrand 37, Paris.

[Scaled design drawing for the valve assembly of a balloon, including ...

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of decorative drawing, decor elements, art design, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

[Lunar halo and luminescent cross observed during the balloon Zénith's long distance flight from Paris to Arcachon in March, 1875]

[Lunar halo and luminescent cross observed during the balloon Zénith's...

Possibly drawn by Albert Tissandier. Title and date devised by Library staff, based on illustrations in Histoire de mes ascensions ... / par Gaston Tissandier. Paris : M. Dreyfous, 1878. Tissandier collection. ... More

Plateforme aérienne cerf-volant libre dirigeable, système Vaussin-Chardanne. Feiulle no. 1 / dressé et presenté ... le 19 mars 1853, Vaussin-Chardanne.

Plateforme aérienne cerf-volant libre dirigeable, système Vaussin-Char...

Scaled design drawing shows a system for navigating an airship using propellers. Includes plans of dirigible platform body and complete platform assembly, and identification key. Tissandier collection.

A grand balloon ascent, Batty's, Thursday, July 1st, 1852 / / Earle.

A grand balloon ascent, Batty's, Thursday, July 1st, 1852 / / Earle.

Poster shows three men and a woman holding flags while sitting in the basket of an ascending balloon labeled "Royal Hippodrom[e]" to advertise a public ascent at Batty's Grand National Hippodrome in London, Eng... More

A grand balloon ascent, Batty's, Thursday, July 1st, 1852 / / Earle.

A grand balloon ascent, Batty's, Thursday, July 1st, 1852 / / Earle.

Poster shows three men and a woman holding flags while sitting in the basket of an ascending balloon labeled "Royal Hippodrom[e]" to advertise a public ascent at Batty's Grand National Hippodrome in London, Eng... More

Franciscus-Josephus I. Pax, labor, progressus / [...] Fuhr.

Franciscus-Josephus I. Pax, labor, progressus / [...] Fuhr.

Print for the Vienna world's fair shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, in uniform, surrounded by objects relating to creativity and the arts, technology, and industry includin... More

Details dʹune soupape pour un ballon de 5 a 8,000 m. cubes / Charles Chavoutier, aèronaute, Paris, le 24 octobre 1868.

Details dʹune soupape pour un ballon de 5 a 8,000 m. cubes / Charles C...

Scaled design drawing of balloon valve shows 9 captioned views of components and complete assembly. Includes identification key. Tissandier collection.

Auguri e felicitazioni, Tissandier Collection, France

Auguri e felicitazioni, Tissandier Collection, France

A humorous print from an Italian illustrated periodical shows frogs dressed in street clothes climbing out of a packing crate carrying New Year's greetings on strips of paper, while a well-dressed woman watche... More

Eden-concert, enl'vez l'ballon revue de m.m. Hermil & Numès, 17 boulevard Sébastopol, musique nouvelle de Tar-Caen / / Ch. Levy.

Eden-concert, enl'vez l'ballon revue de m.m. Hermil & Numès, 17 boulev...

French circus poster shows two performers in the basket of an airship navigated by a rudder and a propeller. The basket bears the date 1884. Tissandier collection.

[Lunar halo and luminescent cross observed during the balloon Zénith's long distance flight from Paris to Arcachon in March, 1875]

[Lunar halo and luminescent cross observed during the balloon Zénith's...

Possibly drawn by Albert Tissandier. Title and date devised by Library staff, based on illustrations in Histoire de mes ascensions ... / par Gaston Tissandier. Paris : M. Dreyfous, 1878. Tissandier collection. ... More

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

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

Broadside shows balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-71. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris with categories for balloon name, size, owner, balloonist, and number of pasengers and pigeons on b... More

Disegno della seconda macchina rappresentante un luogo di delizia dove colla decorazione di una piacevole bambocciata, si dispone il volo di un pallone aereostatico ... / Guis. Palarzi, arch. inventé ; Franco Barbarza, incise.

Disegno della seconda macchina rappresentante un luogo di delizia dove...

Print shows a device for creating firework displays. The machine's shape represents a place of delight in which was arranged the flight of an aerostatic balloon. The fireworks are part of the annual homage paid... More

Cirque dʹhiver ... Tous les soirs,à 8 heures / Stafford & Co., Nottingham.

Cirque dʹhiver ... Tous les soirs,à 8 heures / Stafford & Co., Notting...

French circus poster shows an aerialist floating with arms outstretched above a city skyline with a balloon in the background. Tissandier collection.

Plateforme aérienne, cerf-volant libre dirigeable, système Vaussin-Chardanne. Feuille no. 2 / dressé et presenté ... le 19 mars 1853, Vaussin-Chardanne.

Plateforme aérienne, cerf-volant libre dirigeable, système Vaussin-Cha...

Design drawing shows a system for powering an airship with manually operated propellers. Includes longitudinal views of dirigible platform assembly and identification key. Tissandier collection.

Patent drawing - Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). Moyens simples et peu couteuse pour faire descendre et remonter à volanté un ballon dans lʹair sans perté de gaz et de lest, sans crainté l'accidents / / Villenueve St. Georges (Seine et Oise), le novembre 1853, Vaussin Chardanne. Public domain  image

Patent drawing - Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). Moyens ...

Patent design drawing for a safe system to regulate the altitude of a balloon while preserving gas and ballast. Includes 9 detail views, cross section, elevation, and identification key. Tissandier collection.

[The balloon Zénith at sunrise or sunset, with five passengers during a long distance flight from Paris to Arcachon in March, 1875]

[The balloon Zénith at sunrise or sunset, with five passengers during ...

Possibly drawn by Albert Tissandier. Title and date devised by Library staff, based on illustrations in Histoire de mes ascensions ... / par Gaston Tissandier. Paris : M. Dreyfous, 1878. Tissandier collection.

Disegno della seconda macchina rappresentante un luogo di delizia dove colla decorazione di una piacevole bambocciata, si dispone il volo di un pallone aereostatico ... / Guis. Palarzi, arch. inventé ; Franco Barbarza, incise.

Disegno della seconda macchina rappresentante un luogo di delizia dove...

Print shows a device for creating firework displays. The machine's shape represents a place of delight in which was arranged the flight of an aerostatic balloon. The fireworks are part of the annual homage paid... More

Franciscus-Josephus I. Pax, labor, progressus / [...] Fuhr.

Franciscus-Josephus I. Pax, labor, progressus / [...] Fuhr.

Print for the Vienna world's fair shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, in uniform, surrounded by objects relating to creativity and the arts, technology, and industry includin... More

Les ballons du Siège de Paris, septembre 1870 - février 1871 / A. Tissandier, del. et lith.

Les ballons du Siège de Paris, septembre 1870 - février 1871 / A. Tiss...

Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, with categories for name of balloon and balloonist, date and time of departure and arrival. Surr... More

Les ballons du Siège de Paris, septembre 1870 - février 1871 / A. Tissandier, del. et lith.

Les ballons du Siège de Paris, septembre 1870 - février 1871 / A. Tiss...

Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, with categories for name of balloon and balloonist, date and time of departure and arrival. Surr... More

Descente d'Absalon par Miss Stena

Descente d'Absalon par Miss Stena

Circus poster shows a group of aerialists performing. Two women are held aloft by a balloon attached to their hair. The portrait on the center balloon is possibly Miss Stena. Tissandier collection.

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

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

Broadside shows balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-71. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris with categories for balloon name, size, owner, balloonist, and number of pasengers and pigeons on b... More

Folies-Bergère travail merveilleux sur le fil de fer par Fontaine

Folies-Bergère travail merveilleux sur le fil de fer par Fontaine

French poster shows aerialist Fontaine, labeled one of "le héros du Niagara" in three views: a small bust portrait, roller skating on a high wire, and walking on stilts on a high wire suspended by a balloon. T... More

Fearful balloon adventure-- saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman murdered by her son and daughter.

Fearful balloon adventure-- saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman m...

Front page of British illustrated newspaper shows two stories. Above, a man and woman (possibly balloonist Jules Duruof and his wife) cling to a balloon basket in a stormy sea, with rescue boat approaching. Bel... More

Patent drawing - Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). moyens simples et peu couteuse pour faire descendre et remonter à volanté un ballon dans lʹair sans perté le gaz et le leste / / Villeneuve St. Georges (Seine et Oise), le dix octobre mil [...] cinquante trois, Vaussin-Chardanne. Public domain  image

Patent drawing - Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). moyens ...

Patent design drawing for a system to regulate the altitude of a balloon while preserving gas and ballast. Features a cross section, scaled detail drawings of component parts and an identification key. Tissand... More

Projet d'appareil, pour évaluer approximativement la force des helices, roues ailes applicables à la direction des a érostat / par Vaussin-Chardanne, 1853.

Projet d'appareil, pour évaluer approximativement la force des helices...

Design drawing shows a system for steering an airship using man power to operate propellers. Includes plan and sections. Tissandier collection.

City desk / World-Telegram photo by Fred Palumbo.

City desk / World-Telegram photo by Fred Palumbo.

Newspaper editorial staff in the newsroom. NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

Le ballons sortis pendant le Siege de Paris, 1870-1871

Le ballons sortis pendant le Siege de Paris, 1870-1871

Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, keyed to a map of their descents. Several vignettes show balloons, including "le Richard Wallace... More

Le ballons sortis pendant le Siege de Paris, 1870-1871

Le ballons sortis pendant le Siege de Paris, 1870-1871

Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, keyed to a map of their descents. Several vignettes show balloons, including "le Richard Wallace... More

Folies-Bergère travail merveilleux sur le fil de fer par Fontaine

Folies-Bergère travail merveilleux sur le fil de fer par Fontaine

French poster shows aerialist Fontaine, labeled one of "le héros du Niagara" in three views: a small bust portrait, roller skating on a high wire, and walking on stilts on a high wire suspended by a balloon. T... More