Arènes du Sport Aéronautique balloon navigation poster, Paris 1885 – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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 Arènes du Sport Aéronautique balloon navigation poster, Paris 1885, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Arènes du Sport Aéronautique balloon navigation poster, Paris 1885
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This 1885 Paris poster advertises a balloon navigation event under the name Arènes du Sport Aéronautique, placing the sport in a public arena rather than in the open sky. By the 1880s ballooning had become a popular spectacle in France, a generation after balloons carried mail and passengers out of the besieged capital in 1870 and 1871. Posters like this were printed in bold color lithography to catch the eye on crowded city walls, and they show how aerial sport was sold to ordinary Parisians.
| Original scan | 2,700 × 4,178 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02593uArènes du sport aéronautique |
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