Balloon with two passengers over a crowded town square – Historic Reproduction
(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 Balloon with two passengers over a crowded town square. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Balloon with two passengers over a crowded town square
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Two passengers ride a balloon over a town square so crowded with onlookers that the people seem to fill every edge of the scene. France was the birthplace of human flight, when the Montgolfier brothers launched the first crewed hot-air balloon in 1783. In the decades that followed, ascents became popular public spectacles at fairs, festivals and civic celebrations, drawing large crowds eager to watch. The picture is worth studying for its record of that shared excitement, with the townspeople below turned into witnesses to a new kind of adventure.
| Original scan | 1,837 × 3,144 px · prints to 6 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02303u [Balloon with two passengers a |
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