[Aerial view of Paris, France, from balloon, showing the Eiffel Tower in center foreground, taken during the Paris Exposition of 1889] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Aerial view of Paris, France, from balloon, showing the Eiffel Tower in center foreground, taken during the Paris Exposition of 1889], [1889] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5c/5c860c3727a6-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Aerial view of Paris, France, from balloon, showing the Eiffel Tower in center foreground, taken during the Paris Exposition of 1889]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Aerial view of Paris, France, from balloon, showing the Eiffel Tower in center foreground, taken during the Paris Exposition of 1889]
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Few pictures from the 1889 Paris Exposition look down on the city like this one, with the newly built Eiffel Tower standing near the center of the frame. Taken from a balloon, it shows the iron lattice rising above the rooftops and streets. The Tissandier Collection is named for Gaston Tissandier, the French aeronaut who combined balloon flight with photography to record cities from above. Completed as the exposition's centerpiece, the tower was then the tallest structure in the world, and this view makes its scale easy to see.
| Created / published | [1889] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Aerial photographs 1880-1890.Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Tissandier Collection. |
| Subjects | Tour Eiffel (Paris, France)--1880-1890. Paris (France)--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,190 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165637 |
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