Liste de ballons sortis de Paris pendant le siège 1870-1871 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Liste de ballons sortis de Paris pendant le siège 1870-1871
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Few documents capture the siege of Paris as directly as this printed roster of the balloons that lifted out of the city during the Prussian blockade of 1870 and 1871. With the capital cut off by land, balloons became one of the few reliable links to the outside world, carrying mail and passengers over enemy lines. René Dagron, the photographer and inventor named in the subject headings, was closely tied to that balloon postal service. This lithograph was issued by the printer E. Pichot in 1874, after the siege had ended, and it belongs to Gaston Tissandier's collection of material on flight.
| Created / published | Paris : E. Pichot, imprimeur, 1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (broadside) : lithograph. |
| Genre | Broadsides 1870-1880.Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Title from item. Tissandier collection. |
| Subjects | Dagron, Prudent René Patrice,--1819-1900--Public appearances. Balloons (Aircraft)--France--1870-1880. Paris (France)--History--Siege, 1870-1871. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,715 × 3,787 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223703 |
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