Interior of a hot air balloon with smiling sun face – 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 Interior of a hot air balloon with smiling sun face. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Interior of a hot air balloon with smiling sun face
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The most unusual detail here is the smiling sun face worked into the interior of the balloon, a whimsical touch that sets this view apart from the many sky-and-basket scenes on the ballooning board. Early hot air balloons were built from lightweight cloth, often silk or cotton, and their interiors were rarely decorated for the crew, so a painted or sewn face suggests a maker or pilot who wanted a bit of personality overhead. Ballooning captured public imagination from the late eighteenth century onward, and images of the inside of a balloon were uncommon, making this view a rare glimpse of the craft from the passenger's perspective.
| Original scan | 1,024 × 684 px |
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| Reference | 2578711385_e30ac2c1bf_b Its all relative inside the Abraxas rubberduckee |
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