Captive balloon of Henri Giffard over Paris, 1878.
Tag: fly
Exposition Universelle de Paris / Paris World Exhibition, 1889 (The card reads “Balloon races at Vincennes”)
Montgolfière, place du Carrousel, 1878. From collection of the famous French documentation photo-agency Roger-Viollet.
On October 24, 1911, a press photographer for NY Times
captured Orville Wright in the midst of a record flight in Kill Devil
Hills, North Carolina. “Glider in the Air Nearly 10 Minutes,” read the
headline the next day. / source: New York Times
If I had a broomstick, 1920
A boy flies on a broom over a city by the sea. He is going down fast. Illustration by Harry Clarke for
The year’s at the spring (1920) | src California Digital Library at Internet Archive via old book illustrations
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Up, up and away.
Vintage photo postcard. / source: Crafty Dogma
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Untitled (couple ‘flying’ a monoplane). French postcard from early 1900′s. / source: Crafty Dogma
Jacques-Henri Lartigue :: Le cerf-volant / The kite, Louis Ferrand et M. Hubert Laroze,
Chateau de Rouzat
[Puy-de-Dôme], August 1911 / src: howard greenberg
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