
William Notman :: Ice shove, Montreal Harbour, QC, about 1880
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William Notman :: Ice shove, Montreal Harbour, QC, about 1880

Photographs document the Wright brothers’ advances in early flight. The brothers made 105 flights on the Flyer II in 1904, some as long as five minutes. / source: The Telegraph

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

Anonymous photographer. Cannon-men or bullet men, Zachini, ca. 1930. Vintage silver print. / src: Lumière des Roses

Harold Feinstein :: Sheet Music Montage, Coney Island, 1950. / src: Dolores Sampol on FB
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Paul Thompson :: A wrecked Zeppelin sits ashore in Mison, France, 1918 / src: National Geographic Found