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The Educational Balloon – Historic Reproduction

The Educational Balloon, 1888 — historic print
The Educational Balloon, 1888. Historic print from the Ballooning collection.

(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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This historic print of The Educational Balloon brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Educational Balloon

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Titled *The Educational Balloon*, this 1888 print is a plate from *Patent Office Curiosities*, a book of unusual inventions and oddities drawn from the records of the United States Patent Office. Ballooning was still a novelty for the public in the late 1880s, and it drew the imagination of inventors and writers who saw aerial travel as a way to widen people's view of the world. Prints like this one show how readers of the period pictured new technology mixing with ideas about teaching and improvement.

Created / published1888
Medium1 print.
NotesIllus. from Patent Office Curiosities. T223.Z1R2, 1888, p. 25. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,044 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129677

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