Dirigible balloon, "La Ville de Paris", built by Henri Deutsch – Antique Print
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Dirigible balloon, "La Ville de Paris", built by Henri Deutsch in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Dirigible balloon, "La Ville de Paris", built by Henri Deutsch
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The airship on this Bain News Service negative is labeled *La Ville de Paris*, a title taken from the agency's caption data that has not been independently verified, and no date is recorded. Its builder, Henri Deutsch, was a French oil industrialist and aeronaut who financed airship experiments in the early 1900s, including a prize for flying around the Eiffel Tower that Alberto Santos-Dumont won in 1901. The Bain agency supplied news photographs to American newspapers, so this plate likely documented European aviation for a US audience during the early years of powered flight.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,772 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1347 |
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