Up in a balloon – Historic Reproduction
(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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Up in a balloon comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Balloon ascents drew large crowds in American cities in the 1870s, and Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold inexpensive lithographs to a broad public, turned that fascination into a popular subject. "Up in a Balloon," published by the firm around 1876, belongs to its run of lithographs from that decade, when the company's output mixed sporting scenes, humor, and novelties. The record does not name the figures or the setting, so the print is best understood as an example of how the firm captured the excitement of aerial travel for ordinary buyers. It is catalogued as number 6804 in Gale Research's raisonné of the firm's work.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6804 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,061 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111566 |
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