The Glorious Fourth--sending up the fire balloon / C.S. Reinhart, del. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. 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 antique engraving of The Glorious Fourth--sending up the fire balloon / C.S. Reinhart, del.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Glorious Fourth--sending up the fire balloon / C.S. Reinhart, del.
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Here the Fourth of July celebration centers on a fire balloon, a paper envelope lifted by heat from a small flame, being sent up into the sky. Charles Stanley Reinhart, who drew regularly for *Harper's Weekly*, made the design, and it appeared in the magazine's July 8, 1871 issue on page 617. Wood engravings like this one turned drawings into printed pages for a large readership, and fire balloons were a familiar part of summer festivities in the period, often launched after dark while crowds looked on.
| Created / published | 1871 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1870-1880.Wood engravings 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1871 July 8, title page, p. 617. |
| Subjects | Fourth of July--1870-1880. Celebrations--1870-1880. Balloons--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,101 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-167103 |
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