Ballooning, Airships

43144.

Portrait of Balloonist Herman D. Squires.

43145.

Balloon Ascension, Connecticut.

43146.

Balloon Ascension, Connecticut.

43147.

James Allen balloon ascension in the ‘Monarch of the Air.’ Rhode Island.

43148.

Balloon Ascension, Auburn, N.Y.

43149.

Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 424. Professor Lowe inflating Balloon Intrepid from Gas in Balloon Constitution.

43150.

Adella, the Lady Aeronaut.

43151.

Capt. H.B. Dight’s 320th ascent-just off.

43152.

Nadar in balloon.

43153.

The basket of the balloon Le Geant.

43154.

Eugene-Pierre Godard (1827-1890) and one of his brothers, probably Jules Godard (1838-1895). Both were famous balloonists.

43155.

Balloon Depot, Champs du Mars, Paris. The large balloon is Le Geant. Oct. 18, 1863.

43156.

Balloon Depot, Champs du Mars, Paris. The large balloon is Le Geant. Oct. 18, 1863.

43157.

The balloon Armand-Barbes during the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Gamletta’s escape from Paris (French interim minister). (D)

43158.

Balloon Michelene. (D)

43159.

Backmark of Prof. S.A. King’s Photograph Rooms. He was an aeronaut and a photographer as well as other things.

43160.

Prof. Lowe’s balloon at Fair Oaks, telegrapher at center.

43161.

No. 423. Professor Lowe inflating Balloon Intrepid to Reconnoiter Battle of Fair Oaks.

43162.

No. 427. Prof. Lowe Reconnoitering at Battle of Fair Oaks, and telegraphing to McClellan’s headquarters.

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.

43176.

Gaston Tissandier’s Balloon.

43177.

Balloon Ascension, unknown location.

43178.

Written on verso “Balloon that did not ascend Sept. 20, 1887.” Also “Newburyport.”

43179.

Balloon inflation, Lakeside Park, Warsaw, Indiana.

43180.

Balloon Ascension, Lakeside Park, Warsaw, Indiana.

43181.

Balloon inflation, Concord State Fair Grounds, Concord, N.H.

43182.

Airship of Hippolyte Francois, St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904.

43183.

Balloon Ascension, France.

43184.

Garden of Luxembourg, Paris. Surprise Balloon. Tinted. This is a back lit post of the image below.

43184.

Garden of Luxembourg, Paris. Surprise Balloon. Tinted.

43185.

Balloon Ascension, Bordeaux, France.

43186.

Fete de Saint-Cloud, Balloon.

43187.

No. 1851. Fete de Saint-Cloud, Ballon. Paris Instantane.

43188.

45. Fete De Saint-Cloud, Ballon, Paris.

43189.

No. 142. Vue Instantanee de la Fete de Saint-Cloud. Ascension du ballon. Paris.

43190.

Vue Instantanee de la Fete de Saint-Cloud. Ascension du ballon. Paris.

43191.

No. 144. Vue Instantanee de la Fete de Saint-Cloud. Ascension du ballon. Paris.

43192.

No. 144. Vue Instantanee de la Fete de Saint-Cloud. Ascension du ballon. Paris. Back lit version of image below.