Anonymous – Balloons

43193.

Balloon Ascension, Paris.

43194.

Balloon Ascension, Paris.

43195.

Balloon Ascension, Paris.

43196.

Balloon Ascension, Paris.

43197.

Paris warend der Belagerung. (Paris under siege). Balloon Ascension, Paris. The title notwithstanding, there is a ball-walkers’ apparatus to the left, so this is not a view of the siege of Paris.

43198.

Balloon Ascension, Paris.

43199.

68. Ballon Nadar (Le Geant). Instantanee, a 5 heures du soir (18 octobre 1863).

43200.

68. Ballon Nadar (Le Geant). Instantanee, a 5 heures du soir (18 octobre 1863).

43202.

48. Fete de Saint-Cloud, Ballon. Balloon Godard.

43203.

Ballon Godard. Back lit version of image below.

43204.

Le Ballon Captif, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878. This is in front of the burnt out shell of the Tuileries Palace, set ablaze during the Paris Commune of 1871. The ruins stood until 1882. The Arch of Napoleon, just visible at right, still stands.

43206.

Balloon Ascension, unknown European location.

43207.

Balloon inflation, unknown European location.

43208.

Balloon Godard.

43209.

Balloon Godard.

43210.

Section Turque Exposition. Bill posting for Le Geant, Nadar’s balloon.

43212.

Unidentified Balloon Ascension, probably England.

43213.

Unidentified Balloon Ascension, probably England.

43215.

Balloon landing at Chalamont.

43216.

Balloon landing at Chalamont.

43217.

Balloon landing at Chalamont.

43218.

Balloon landing at Chalamont.

43263.

World’s Fair Grounds.

43278.

Balloon at unidentified location.

43279.

Balloon Ascension, Santa Monica. Cal.

43283.

Unidentified Balloon Ascension.

43285.

Unidentified Balloon Ascension.

43297.

Dickson Centennial June 26, 1902. Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

43301.

Unidentified Balloon with daredevil handing on.

43302.

Balloon, Wayne, Neb. June 4, ’03.

43303.

Balloon, Wayne, Neb. June 4, ’03.

43304.

Balloon at San Antonio, Texas.

43313.

Untitled Airship.

43315.

Roy Knabenshue’s July 1905 flight aboard airship Toledo Number One from the Lucas County Fairgrounds on Dorr Street in Toledo, Ohio to the Spitzer Building where he landed on the roof (a distance of 3 miles in 25 minutes) and then returned. For his feat, Knabenshue received $500 from Al Spitzer. This event marked the first time a lighter-than-air vessel landed on a building.

43316.

Roy Knabenshue’s July 1905 flight aboard airship Toledo Number One from the Lucas County Fairgrounds on Dorr Street in Toledo, Ohio to the Spitzer Building where he landed on the roof (a distance of 3 miles in 25 minutes) and then returned. For his feat, Knabenshue received $500 from Al Spitzer. This event marked the first time a lighter-than-air vessel landed on a building.

43317.

Roy Knabenshue’s July 1905 flight aboard airship Toledo Number One from the Lucas County Fairgrounds on Dorr Street in Toledo, Ohio to the Spitzer Building where he landed on the roof (a distance of 3 miles in 25 minutes) and then returned. For his feat, Knabenshue received $500 from Al Spitzer. This event marked the first time a lighter-than-air vessel landed on a building.

43318.

Roy Knabenshue’s July 1905 flight aboard airship Toledo Number One from the Lucas County Fairgrounds on Dorr Street in Toledo, Ohio to the Spitzer Building where he landed on the roof (a distance of 3 miles in 25 minutes) and then returned. For his feat, Knabenshue received $500 from Al Spitzer. This event marked the first time a lighter-than-air vessel landed on a building.

43319.

Roy Knabenshue’s July 1905 flight aboard airship Toledo Number One from the Lucas County Fairgrounds on Dorr Street in Toledo, Ohio to the Spitzer Building where he landed on the roof (a distance of 3 miles in 25 minutes) and then returned. For his feat, Knabenshue received $500 from Al Spitzer. This event marked the first time a lighter-than-air vessel landed on a building.

43352.

Dirigibles Shenandoah and Los Angeles at Lakehurst, N.J.

43355.

Unnamed Zeppelin.

43365.

Defender by Goodyear, ca. 1931.

43370.

An Observation Balloon preparing to rise.

43371.

Silicol Gas Plant filling Nurse Balloons.

43372.

Walking out a Caquot Observation Balloon.

43392.

11-A Cavalry Horse Corral.

43393.

Partially inflated balloon with group posed in front. Probably a souvenir image by the kind of posing with the women in the basket and a box for them to use to climb in.

43394.

Balloon Aerial near Sherburne, NY ca. 1880. This is a copy stereo transparency by Brandt Rowles.

43396.

Bayeux. Conflement d’un ballon.

43397.

L’aigle ballon Godard.

43397.

Godard balloon above, backlit.