Hot air balloon card with two children in basket – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Hot air balloon card with two children in basket, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Hot air balloon card with two children in basket
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Two children peer over the wicker rim of a hot air balloon basket in this card, a detail that sets it apart from the many balloon views on the Pictorial America board, which tend to show the craft alone against the sky. Ballooning was a popular spectacle in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when ascents drew large crowds to fairgrounds and public parks. Pictorial cards like this one were often printed as souvenirs, so the presence of children suggests the card was aimed at families who had seen such flights or hoped to. Its small size and printed format are typical of the period's mass-produced ephemera.
| Original scan | 2,520 × 3,945 px · prints to 8 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02559u[Card shows two children |
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