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Girl watching hot air balloons over a tulip field – Vintage Print

Girl watching hot air balloons over a tulip field — historic image
Girl watching hot air balloons over a tulip field. Historic image from the Balloons collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Girl watching hot air balloons over a tulip field, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Girl watching hot air balloons over a tulip field

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A girl stands at the edge of a tulip field, her eyes lifted toward a cluster of hot air balloons drifting above the rows of blooms. Balloon festivals of this kind became popular in the United States during the late twentieth century, drawing crowds to open farmland where the sky could be filled with colorful envelopes at dawn. The pairing of a child's upturned gaze with the bright, orderly tulip rows gives the scene a quiet sense of wonder, and it is worth noticing how the flat fields below contrast with the rising balloons above.

Original scan1,500 × 1,033 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
Reference2408850519_10f148137a_o Dreamin' - Hot Air Balloon Rides jesse.millan

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