
Unidentified photographer (Russian ?) :: Balloon. “Andrew Pilstrema” in flight, 1898. / src: Photograph, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow via luminous-lint
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Unidentified photographer (Russian ?) :: Balloon. “Andrew Pilstrema” in flight, 1898. / src: Photograph, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow via luminous-lint

Negretti and Zambra :: Henry Tracey Coxwell (1819-1900), English balloonist, ca. 1862. Carte de visite, National LIbrary of New Zealand via luminous-lint

Burrell (357 Westminster St., Providence, RI.) :: Balloon photograph of a wedding, 1888, 27 September (after), Cabinet card, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. / via luminous-lint

Louis Paulhan flying near a gas-filled balloon in his Henry Farman biplane, during his record-breaking flight (4600 ft.) at Dominguez Field, January 12, 1910. Paulhan is sitting at the center of the front wings in this primitive biplane. His biplane passes a nearby balloon with one person piloting it. The advertisement painted on the balloon reads: “All in the Examiner”.

Henry Giffard’s moored hot air balloon in front of the ruins of the Tuileries, Paris, 1878

Henri Giffard’s captive balloon above Paris in 1878.

Arc de triomphe du Louvre and ruins of the Tuileries Palace during Paris World Fair of 1878

Captive balloon of Henri Giffard over Paris, 1878.