Ballooning Cabinet Cards

43163.

Balloon Ascension, above Eagle Hotel, Laconia, N.H.

43164.

Prof. Ivy Baldwin at Mid-Summer Fair, San Francisco, Calif’n 1894-Capacity of Balloon Car-20 People. Baldwin & Sherman Steam Captive Balloon. Blank certificate for certifying a person’s ascension in the balloon. “Ivy Baldwin Aeronaut, San Francisco” stamp on verso.

43165.

Balloon Ascension, Warsaw, Indiana. Advertising stamp of “Harry Oram’s Wagon & Carriage Shop.”

43166.

This is Professor’s Myers’ Gates mansion near Frankfort, NY known as the “balloon farm.” One balloon “Carlotta” named after his wife’s stage name.

43167.

Balloon inflation, Quincy, Ill.

43168.

Balloon Ascension, Quincy, Ill. “Hagel Bros. & Kesler, Aeronauts” stamped at bottom.

43169.

Balloon Ascension, Geneva 1896.

43170.

Balloon Beaumont.

43171.

Balloon Ascension, Paris.

43172.

Balloonist superimposed on balloon, Winthrop, Iowa. Written on verso “Taken in the year of 1896 the 7th Day of May.”

43173.

Composite image of acrobatic balloonist. Written on verso “Sept. 8, 1899.”

43174.

Lady Florence Cline is the Lightest Lady Aeronaut in the World. Weighing 81 lbs.

43175.

Signed “A mon ami Camille Gravis, Gaston Tissandier 11 Mai 1896.”Renowned balloonist.

43313.

Untitled Airship.

43398.

Assembly of the first electrically propelled hot air balloon, invented by brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier, circa 1883.