Le Ballon: Bulletin Trimestriel de Toutes les Ascensions cover – Vintage Wall Art
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This rare historic image captures Le Ballon: Bulletin Trimestriel de Toutes les Ascensions cover in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Le Ballon: Bulletin Trimestriel de Toutes les Ascensions cover
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Rather than showing a balloon in flight, this cover introduces a printed register: the title promises a quarterly bulletin listing every ascent, so the periodical itself was a running record of the activity. French ballooning drew wide public interest around 1900, when the Aéro-Club de France, founded in 1898, helped organize flights and competitions from Paris and other launch sites. Publications like this gave pilots, sponsors and readers a steady account of who flew, where they came down and how far they travelled. The cover's lettering and layout also show how the sport presented itself to its readers.
| Original scan | 2,698 × 4,091 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02572uLe ballon bulletin trimestriel |
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