[Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning – Historic Reproduction
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A window into the past: [Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning
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Few subjects suited the small format of a collecting card better than ballooning, and France is where the sport began. The Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon carried the first people aloft over Paris in November 1783, and balloons later carried mail out of the besieged city during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Cards like this one, issued in series and collected for their pictures, turned such moments into bright, pocket-sized scenes. Notice how the artist packs a dramatic event into a single small image.
| Original scan | 4,250 × 2,578 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02561u [Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning |
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