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[Grand Balloon... de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878 - Birds-eye view of Balloon before ascent from Tuillerie Gardens, Paris; large crowd and reviewing stands] – Vintage Wall Art

[Grand Balloon... de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878 - Birds-eye view of Balloon before ascent from Tuillerie Gardens, Paris; large crowd and reviewing stands], 1878 — historic photograph
[Grand Balloon... de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878 - Birds-eye view of Balloon before ascent from Tuillerie Gardens, Paris; large crowd and reviewing stands], 1878. Historic photograph from the Ballooning collection.

(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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The picture shows Henry Giffard's great tethered balloon in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris, seen from above just before it rose. Giffard's captive balloon was one of the attractions of the 1878 Exposition Universelle, and the crowds and reviewing stands around it show how much public interest the spectacle drew. The sepia photoprint comes from a process associated with the photographer Dagron, and it belongs to the collection of Gaston Tissandier, an aeronaut and writer who documented balloon flight in that era.

Created / published1878
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1870-1880.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from old caption card. Tissandier Collection. Sepia photoprint by Dagron.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,192 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144103

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