Le Ballon masthead with balloons and printed Paris office address – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Le Ballon masthead with balloons and printed Paris office address. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Le Ballon masthead with balloons and printed Paris office address
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The masthead of *Le Ballon* stands out because it is a printed header rather than a photograph of a flight: its balloons and Paris office address place the periodical squarely within the city's aeronautical circles. Paris had been a center of ballooning since the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air flight in 1783, and by the late nineteenth century French clubs and publications were promoting the sport and its scientific uses. Illustrated mastheads like this one were meant to signal expertise and authority to readers, many of whom followed balloon ascents, records and military experiments closely.
| Original scan | 4,136 × 2,784 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02573uLe ballon rédaction |
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