Hot Air Balloon Collection (#7)

Hot air balloon over desert landscape
Hot Air Balloon, Namib Desert, Namibia, Africa

Balloon Post
A balloon leaves Paris by night, carrying mail out of the city during the siege by Prussian forces, December 1870. Original publication: Illustrated London News

Balloon At Montmartre
A captive balloon at Montmartre, Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, circa 1871. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Balloon Rides
4th October 1863: French caricaturist, writer, portrait photographer, balloonist and showman Gaspard Felix Tournachon Nadar (1820 - 1910) flies his giant balloon, Le Geant

Commune Balloons
1871: Balloons in the Place St Pierre during the Paris Commune rising of 1871. M. Nadar snr used to make ascents from this place as reconnaisance photographer during the siege of Paris

Nadars Balloon
Nadars giant air balloon over Paris, 1863. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Airship Ascends
24th September 1852: The ascent of French engineer and inventor Henri Giffauds first steam airship. Collection of the Musee de l Aeromautique (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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