Sheet of ten collecting cards showing ballooning events – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Sheet of ten collecting cards showing ballooning events. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Sheet of ten collecting cards showing ballooning events
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Ten small cards on one sheet, each marking a different ballooning event, suggest a series meant for collectors to gather and compare. Ballooning was a French passion from the start: the Montgolfier brothers launched the first crewed hot-air balloon from Paris in 1783, and the city became a center for balloon ascents, races and public spectacles in the decades that followed. Collecting cards of this kind were often issued with food or tobacco products in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using bright lithography to turn new technology into everyday entertainment. Looking closely at the individual scenes shows how the public imagined the sky as a new frontier.
| Original scan | 4,250 × 2,570 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02562u [Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning |
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