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Up in a balloon – Historic Print

Up in a balloon, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. — antique lithograph
Up in a balloon, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876.. Antique lithograph 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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Titled simply "Up in a Balloon," this lithograph came from the New York firm Currier & Ives around 1876, a period when the firm was turning out large numbers of color prints for a mass market. Balloon ascensions had become popular public spectacles in the United States by the 1870s, drawing crowds to fairgrounds and city parks, and the firm often treated such novelties with a lighthearted touch. The print is catalogued as number 6804 in the firm's standard catalog raisonné, which makes it easy to compare with the other sporting and popular scenes the company issued that decade.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6804
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,118 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111566

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