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Grand Balloon... de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878 - Crowd at outdoor cafe Buffet de Ballon Captif" in Tuillerie Gardens]" – Vintage Wall Art

Grand Balloon... de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878 - Crowd at outdoor cafe Buffet de Ballon Captif" in Tuillerie Gardens]", 1878 — historic photograph
Grand Balloon... de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878 - Crowd at outdoor cafe Buffet de Ballon Captif" in Tuillerie Gardens]", 1878. Historic photograph 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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Step back in time with Grand Balloon... de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878 - Crowd at outdoor cafe Buffet de Ballon Captif" in Tuillerie Gardens]", a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few attractions in Paris drew bigger crowds in 1878 than the captive balloon Henry Giffard built for the Exposition Universelle, which rose on a tether above the Tuileries Gardens. Giffard, an engineer who had built a steam-powered airship in 1852, is credited with the design, and this sepia print shows spectators gathered at a café near the launch site. The picture comes from the Tissandier Collection, named for the balloonist and writer Gaston Tissandier, and was made by the Dagron studio. The caption information is unverified, so the exact location of the café is worth checking against other sources.

Created / published1878
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1870-1880.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from old caption card. Tissandier Collection. Sepia photoprint by Dagron.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,161 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144105

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