Atelier de Mr. Lachambre, balloon workshop with onlookers, 1883 – Historic Print
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A window into the past: Atelier de Mr. Lachambre, balloon workshop with onlookers, 1883, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Atelier de Mr. Lachambre, balloon workshop with onlookers, 1883
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Here the workshop itself is the subject: a balloon maker's atelier in France, with onlookers gathered to watch the work. In 1883 France was the center of ballooning, a tradition that began with the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air flights in 1783. Workshops like this one handled the labor-intensive making of the envelope, cutting and sewing silk or cotton panels and coating them with varnish to hold gas. Such scenes show how much hand craft lay behind a machine that many people first saw only as a drifting spectacle in the sky.
| Original scan | 4,298 × 3,269 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02310uAtelier de Mr. Lachambre |
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