Dirigible balloon, "La Ville de Paris" – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Dirigible balloon, "La Ville de Paris", preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Dirigible balloon, "La Ville de Paris"
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
The record identifies this glass negative with a dirigible called *La Ville de Paris*, though that title comes from unverified data supplied by the Bain News Service and no date is recorded. The name points to a French semi-rigid airship of the early 1900s, one of several craft built with backing from the Lebaudy sugar fortune as aviators tried to make steerable balloons practical. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency active from about 1900 into the 1920s, sold images of such novelties to newspapers, so the plate likely reflects the press interest in airships of that era. The specific identification should be treated as provisional.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,841 × 4,260 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1346 |
More from the Ballooning collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
![[Captive balloon of Henri Giffard over Paris, 1878; high above rooftops]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/df/df1078ebd92f-400.webp)
![[Grand Balloon... de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878 - High aerial view of Paris from Balloon]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0d/0d9e9496d092-400.webp)