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With Wings as Eagles - From Fantasie to Flight

(1783) Exp[é]rience a[ë]rostatique faite Versailles (drawing of Montgolfier brothers first balloon flight carrying a sheep, a duck and a rooster)
(1783) Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic globe' balloon from the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris (drawing of the first manned gas balloon flight)
(1784) Air-balloons (book illustration showing 5 early balloons)
(1818) Aeronautics (early balloon designs)
(1795-1846) Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1795 to 1846
(1795-1883) Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1783 to 1883
(1853) Plateforme aérienne cerf-volant libre dirigeable (scaled design drawing shows a system for navigating an airship using propellers)
(1862) Fair Oaks, Va. Prof. Thaddeus S. Lowe observing the battle from his balloon "Intrepid" (photograph)
(1876) The Stride of a century (cartoon)
(1896) Chas. H. Kabrich, the only bike-chute aeronaut novel and thrilling, bicycle parachute act in mid-air (poster)
(1900s) Henry Helm Clayton: aerial navigation (pamphlet)
(1904) Mr. Lincoln Beachey in Thomas Scott Baldwin's airship at the St. Louis Exposition (poster)
(1908) Hot-air balloon San Antonio hovering above a field in during a balloon race held on July 4, 1908 (photograph)
(1908) International Ballooning Contest, Aero Park, Chicago, July 4th, 1908 (panoramic photo)
(1909) Capt. Thos. S. Baldwin in his dirigible balloon (photograph)
(1909) Views of balloonist Ivy Baldwin in (probably) Colorado (photograph)
(1911) Vaniman airship "Akron" before sailing (photograph)
(1906-1916) Good Year balloon (photograph)
(1918) Pilot climbing up rope to get into basket (gondola) suspended below observation kite balloon during training at the U.S. Naval Air Station (photograph)
(1919) Balloons at rest, Arcadia, California (panoramic photo)
(1920-50) Army blimp at Lincoln Memorial (photograph)
(1929) Graf Zepplin flying over Chicago (photograph)
(1930) National Park Association officials standing by Goodyear blimp in Miami (photograph)
(1936) Airship Hindenberg over ocean (photograph)
(1943) British barrage ballons (photograph)
(1943) U.S. Navy blimp used for anti-submarine patrols (photograph)

Last Updated: 02/14/2011