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Balloon Ascension, balloonist Lyda Dollenhoff, unknown location.
Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 424. Professor Lowe inflating Balloon Intrepid from Gas in Balloon Constitution.
Eugene-Pierre Godard (1827-1890) and one of his brothers, probably Jules Godard (1838-1895). Both were famous balloonists.
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)
Backmark of Prof. S.A. King’s Photograph Rooms. He was an aeronaut and a photographer as well as other things.
No. 427. Prof. Lowe Reconnoitering at Battle of Fair Oaks, and telegraphing to McClellan’s headquarters.
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.
Garden of Luxembourg, Paris. Surprise Balloon. Tinted. This is a back lit post of the image below.
No. 144. Vue Instantanee de la Fete de Saint-Cloud. Ascension du ballon. Paris. Back lit version of image below.
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.