Girl watching hot air balloons over a pink tulip field – Vintage Print

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Girl watching hot air balloons over a pink tulip field comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Girl watching hot air balloons over a pink tulip field
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A young girl stands in a field of pink tulips while hot air balloons drift overhead, the bright blossoms and the colorful envelopes filling the frame together. Tulip fields like this one are typically grown for seasonal blooms, and balloon festivals often take place in spring and early summer, when the weather is calm enough for launches at dawn and dusk. Balloons first carried people aloft in the late eighteenth century, and by the twentieth century mass ascensions had become popular public spectacles. The contrast of a quiet, earthbound moment with the lifted, almost weightless balloons is what gives this scene its appeal.
| Original scan | 1,024 × 705 px |
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| Reference | 2408850519_10f148137a_o Dreamin' - Hot Air Balloon Rides jesse.millan |
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