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Photo, Print, Drawing French balloon ascensions and memorabilia

About this Item

Title

  • French balloon ascensions and memorabilia

Summary

  • Photographs show balloons of Henri Lachambre and Louis Godard at the Trocadero, Paris, dated 1890; airship Debayeux, 1884; and inflation of the balloon Santa Maria de Belem in Brazil, among others. Several images depict the Tissandier brothers preparing for tests of their electric powered airship from their workshop at Auteuil, Paris, France, October 1883. Aerial photographs of Paris and surrounding cities taken from tethered and free balloons, including images by Jacques Ducom and Gaston Tissandier, Alphonse Liébert, and Paul Desmarets. Miscellaneous subjects include plates with balloon motifs and other objects related to ballooning collected by the Tissandiers; a model of the sculpture "La defense de Paris" by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi; tomb of ballonists Joseph Crocé-Spinelli and Henri Sivel, killed in crash of the balloon Zenith in 1875; a few interiors of the Lachambre balloon factory, Vaugirard, Paris, showing toy balloons and other products; one portrait of Gaston Tissandier reading in his study.

Created / Published

  • 1880-ca. 1890.

Headings

  • -  Tissandier, Albert,--1839-1906
  • -  Tissandier, Gaston,--1843-1899
  • -  Crocé-Spinelli, Joseph Eustache,--1845-1875--Monuments
  • -  Sivel, Henri Théodore,--1834-1875--Monuments
  • -  Aeronautics--France--1880-1890
  • -  Balloons (Aircraft)--French--1880-1900
  • -  Airships--French--1880-1900
  • -  Balloon ascensions--France--1880-1900
  • -  Cities & towns--France--1880-1900
  • -  Paris (France)--1880-1900

Headings

  • Aerial photographs--1880-1900.
  • Photographic prints--1880-1890.

Genre

  • Photographic prints--1880-1890
  • Aerial photographs--1880-1900

Notes

  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Prints are by various commercial and amateur European photographers.
  • -  Many photographs bear personal inscriptions to the Tissandier's.
  • -  Original handwritten French captions accompany many images.
  • -  Transfer; Aeronautics Division; 1954.
  • -  Forms part of the Tissandier collection.

Medium

  • 84 photographic prints : b&w ; 36 x 46 cm. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 7586 (H) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Visual materials from the Tissandier collection

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2003653054

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Online Format

  • image

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French Balloon Ascensions and Memorabilia. Paris France, ca. 1890. 1880. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003653054/.

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(ca. 1890) French Balloon Ascensions and Memorabilia. Paris France, ca. 1890. 1880. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003653054/.

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French Balloon Ascensions and Memorabilia. 1880. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2003653054/>.