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A bunch of balloons with the number sixteen on them. Sweet sixteen bal...

A birthday balloon with a crown and a crown. A balloon with a crown and a tiara on it. Public domain stock photo.

Balloon bracket clock - Public domain dedication. Metropolitan Museum ...

Clockmaker: Savory Public domain reproduction of artwork in Metropolitan Museum of Art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fowls of a feather flock together / K., fecit, 1785.

Scottish cartoon shows a group of men conversing as balloons sail overhead. Possibly Scottish balloonist James Tytler and Italian balloonist Vincent Lunardi.

This ticket will admit one person into the [...] on the day of Mr. Lun...

Admission ticket to one of Vincent Lunardi early balloon ascensions, probably from London, England. Includes a picture of a balloon. Tissandier collection.

Machine aérostatique de 70 pieds de hauteur sur 46 de diametre, qui s'...

Illustration shows the ornate balloon used by Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and Girond de Villete in a captive balloon ascent from Paris, October 19, 1783, reaching an altitude of 330 feet for nine minutes. (... More

Gold-Covered Balloon bracket clock, bronze, Europe

A clock with a carved wood face, United Kingdom, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Air-balloons / A. Bell, sculpt.

Book illustration shows five early balloon ascensions in France: two Montgolfier balloons (Fauxbourg St. Antoine and St. Germain); a 1784 balloon of Jean-Pierre Blanchard; and a Charles and Robert balloon being... More

L'ascension d'une montgolfière - Drawing. Public domain image.

Signature de l'exécutant - Au recto, en bas à droite : "audibert fils invenit et del." Tampon - Au recto, en bas vers le centre, à l'encre rouge : "VILLE/DE/PARIS". Numéro d'inventaire - Au recto, en bas à gauc... More

Départ du ballon-poste "Jules Favres" de la gare du Nord, le 30 novemb...

Verso non visible Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dimensions de la Montgolfière. - Public domain drawing

Dessin rectangulaire, sans montage. Pas d'inscriptions au verso. Public domain scan of 18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Designs for Top and Four Sides of a Snuffbox with Scenes depicting the...

Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Ball...

Public domain photo of a 3d object, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Proposed design for balloon utilizing sails for propulsion, Paris, 17...

Design drawing shows two men in basket steering balloon by manipulation of a sail. A ladder connects the balloon to a parachute-style apparatus intended for safe descent where a third man handles the connection... More

Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin de...

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (... More

[Inflated balloon with filling apparatus attached to barrels of gas]

Représentation du GLOBE AEROSTATIQUE, qui s'est élevé de dessus l'un d...

Louis XVI 1780-1783 (Serie's title) Collé sur montage. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[1st human balloon ascension; balloon with Pilatre de Rozier and Marqu...

Engraving by N. de Launay, drawn by Chev. de Lorimier. Illus. in: Faujas, Descriptien de la Machine, 1783, vol. 2, frontis. Reference copy may be in LOT 4700A. This record contains unverified, old data from cap... More

Exp[é]rience a[ë]rostatique faite Versailles le 19 sept. 1783

Vue d'optique shows the balloon launched by the Montgolfier brothers ascending from the Palace of Versailles, France, before the royal family, September 19, 1783. A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the only pa... More

[Woman stands in the basket of a balloon holding flags]

Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ou présente à signer un procès verbal aux curés celui qui ligne a des ...

Drawing shows Professor J.A.C. Charles reascending in balloon from the Nesle plain, France, on December 1, 1783, where he had landed shortly before, accompanied by Marie Noel Robert in a two hour journey from P... More

Public Domain Stock Photo . Vintage balloon retro, travel vacation.

Flying Balloons: Free images of hot air balloons all over the World, available for commercial use and free download. Copyright-free, no attribution required.

Premier voyage aërien en présence de Mr. le Dauphin / dessine par le C...

Print shows a Montgolfier-style balloon in flight over Paris, France. Remarque shows a balloon in flight surrounded by clouds.

Depart de MM. Charles & Robert, du Jardin des Tuilleries dans leur mac...

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. "Sic itur ad astra" wr... More

Globe aërostatique. Dédié à Monsieur Charles. Cette machine est repres...

Jacques Alexandre César Charles departs Nesle, France after the landing of the first hydrogen balloon flight from Paris on December 1, 1783. Marie-Nöel Robert (on the ground at left), who accompanied Charles o... More

Expérience aérostatique. - Engraving, Public domain image

Eau-forte montée sur une feuille cartonnée. Pas d'inscriptions au verso.

Nouvelle forme de globe aërostatique. Au centre duquel est adapté pour...

Design drawing shows front and side elevations and plan of balloon with devices designed to facilitate navigation and maneuverability while in the air. Tissandier collection.

Designs for Top and Four Sides of a Snuffbox with Scenes depicting the...

Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The English balloon and appendages in which Mr. Lunardi ascended into ...

Print shows the ascent of Vincent Lunardi from the Moorfields Artillery Grounds, London, September 15, 1784; Lunardi's first ascent and the first balloon ascent in England. He experimented with oars for navigat... More

Claude Louis Desrais ou Desray - Expérience du vaisseau volant de J.J....

Eau-forte montée dans un passe-partout et collée sur une feuille cartonnée. Verso non visible

Portrait d'après nature de quatre phisiciens celebres volants sans bal...

French cartoon shows Abbé Miollan as a cat and Janinet with bag of money(?) over his shoulder beating a hasty retreat after the failure of their balloon ascension attempt on July 11, 1784 enraged the crowd of s... More

Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Ball...

Public domain photo of French sculpture, 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Première expérience mécanique et aérostatique de M. Blanchard le 27 fé...

L’aérostation (Serie's title) Estampe fixée sur un montage. Public domain scan of 18th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Madam Blubber's last shift, or the aerostatic dilly

This caricature pictures the hustings at Covent Garden, with a distant view of Richmond Hill. Madame Blubber has patriotically contrived to convert herself into an air-balloon, for the collection and conveyance... More

Expérience du globe aërostatique du MM. les freres Robert au Jardin de...

Print shows Anne-Jean and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, September 19, 1784, accompanied by Colin Hulin. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staf... More

Projet de ballon dirigeable de Mathieu (1784).

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Troisieme voyage aërien, expérience faite à Lion le 19 Janvier 1784, s...

Print shows the balloon "Le Flesselles," constructed by Joseph Montgolfier, ascending over the Rhone River and the city of Lyons, January 19, 1784, carrying seven passengers including Joseph Montgolfier and Pil... More

Balloon bracket clock, London, England

Public domain photo of a golden object, United Kingdom, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Figure exacte et proportions, du globe aërostatique, qui, le premier, ...

Print shows elaborately decorated balloon used by Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes in ascent from Paris, October 19, 1783, reaching an altitude of 330 feet for nine minutes. (Source: A... More

The Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with H...

Public domain scan of a print with maritime landscape, ship in the harbor, sea, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Marquis de Brantco (Vanclure), who was involved in a balloon ascensio...

"Son tableau est fidel et vrai comme lui" printed below portrait. Tissandier collection.

Mrs. Sage, the first English female aerial traveller, who ascended wit...

Half-length portrait of the first English woman to ride in a balloon.

Le veritable navigateur aerien / L.J. Stoupy Bijou, invenit et delinea...

Design drawing for an airship navigational system project by Stoupy Bijou consisting of five balloons fastened to a sixty foot mast, a rudder, two 12 foot long oars, and two polygonal vanes to control the rise ... More

Gold-Covered Balloon bracket clock, bronze, Europe

A very fine and very fine antique clock, United Kingdom, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vista del globo areostatico que se hechò la tarde 12 de agosto. de 179...

Print shows Vincenzo Lunardi riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from Buon Retiro gardens, Madrid, August 12, 1792; the first balloon ascension in Spain. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.) Ti... More

[Title page and frontispiece to Jean-Pierre Blanchard's Journal of my ...

Illus. in: Journal of my forty-fifth ascension : being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793. Philadelphia : Printed by Charles Cist ..., 1793. Title page and frontispiece. Published in... More

Le premier parachute de Jacques Garnerin, essayé par lui-même au parc ...

Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dish with Design of Ascending Balloon

Edo period (1615–1868) Public domain photograph of ceramics dish, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Spectators in an arena viewing the ascension of a balloon driven by p...

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carle Vernet - French Race Horses

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

L'Hirondelle. V. Triquet, Tissandier Collection, France

Print shows the balloon "L'Hirondelle V. Triquet" flying with two men on board. Tissandier collection.

[Three men in basket of ascending balloon with flag attached]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Société d'expériences aérostatiques Direction 24 rue Maubeuge, Paris.

Advertisement showing a balloon with several persons standing in the basket, one climbing the ropes just above the basket. Tricolor banners hanging from the balloon announce the "Société d'expériences aerostati... More

L'Union, Tissandier Collection, France

Print shows the balloon "L'Union" flying with four men on board. Tissandier collection.

[Le premier parachute de Jacques Garnerin, essayé par lui-même au parc...

Three technical illustrations show "Calotte du parachute" (crown of deployed parachute); "Parachute ployé, à l'instant du départe" (release from ascending balloon); and "Parachute déployé, à l'instant de la sép... More

Fête du 14 juillet an IX vue du temple eleve dans le grand carré des C...

Print shows a celebration on the Champs Elyseés in Paris, France, on Bastille Day, July 14, 1801. Includes spectators watching a balloon ascension. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.)

Tentand via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo, James Gillray

A fantastic scene in Oxford representing Grenville's installation as Chancellor, which took place at Commemoration, 3 July 1810. Grenville rises in a balloon above a vast applauding crowd; his inflated and sphe... More

He Steers His Flight, James Gillray, England

Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tendanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo–Virgil, Geor:

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tentand via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo, James Gillray

A fantastic scene in Oxford representing Grenville's installation as Chancellor, which took place at Commemoration, 3 July 1810. Grenville rises in a balloon above a vast applauding crowd; his inflated and sphe... More

Rural Sports: Balloon Hunting, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - ...

Public domain image of military forces, cavalry, horses, horseriding, 18th-19th century war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 1... More

Rural Sports: Balloon Hunting, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 1714 - ...

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

Nicolas de Launay - Troisième voyage aërien.

Louis XVI 1784-1786 (Serie's title) Collé sur montage. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

L'homme volant. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Petit dessin rectangulaire, collé sur montage. Verso non visible Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Balloon with open frame wood or metal basket and attached propellers]

Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fête de pantin, Tissandier Collection, France

Print shows a balloon with mechanism attached to the bottom of the basket, possibly an elaborate fireworks display. Tissandier collection.

[Design drawing for system to raise and lower a captive balloon, contr...

(Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.) Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Design drawing for a navigational system for an airship employing six...

Tissandier collection. Public domain image of an airship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aquarius, Piscis Australis & Ballon Aerostatique / Sidy. Hall, sculpt.

Astronomical chart showing a male figure holding an inverted bowl from which water flows, at his feet appears the back of a fish and a balloon forming the constellations. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 2... More

Elevazione aereobatica eseguita da Francezco Orlandi in Bologna nei pu...

Print shows the balloon of Francesco Orlandi ascending over the public gardens of Bologna, Italy, November 6, 1828. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.) Tissandier collection.

Three Polkas - Balloon Polka, Brunette Polka, Adriatic Polka

LOT subdivision subject: Transportation. Title and other information transcribed from item. Composed by A. Wallerstein. Published by Firth, Pond & Co., 1 Franklin Sq. Lithograph by Sarony & Major, N.Y. No capti... More

4 Polkas - San Francisco, The Balloon, The Pleasure Train, The Storm

Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Concours sur le meilleur moyen d'élever un ballon sans perte de gaz de...

Design drawing shows proposal by Louis Panafieu in which the operator in an open car attached to the balloon achieves lift without loss of gas in ballast by manipulating cords on underside of the balloon. Inclu... More

The new London bridge, as it appeared on Monday, August 1st, 1831, at ...

Print shows balloon possibly piloted by British balloonist Charles Green ascending over New London Bridge on the occasion of its opening, August 31, 1831, witnessed by William IV, King of Great Britain. (Source... More

Seconde et dernière ascension du ballon Monstre, construit et dirigé p...

Text-only broadside announcing a balloon ascension by Charles Green, in his balloon "Monstre," January 9th, 1837, at the Caserne, rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, Paris. Tissandier collection.

Royal Gardens, Vauxhall. Grand day and evening fete, next Tuesday, Aug...

Broadside announcing Charles Green's ascension in the balloon "Nassau" from Vauxhall Gardens, London. Includes a picture of passengers in a balloon basket. At head of title: Under the direct patronage of Her Ma... More

Balloon Ascending Near the Entrance to Lord's Cricket Ground, 1839

Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Night ascent. Royal Standard Tavern, pleasure grounds & tea gardens .....

Text-only broadside announcing a balloon ascension at night by Richard Gypson from the Royal Standard Tavern, England, on June 3, 1839. In addition, "Mr. Blanchard, a descendant of the celebrated Mons. Blanchar... More

By permission and under the patronage of the worshipful the mayor ... ...

Broadside announcing a balloon ascension by Richard Gypson from the Gas Works, Daventry, England, 1840. Includes a picture of a balloon in flight. Tissandier collection.

Le pilote, Tissandier Collection, France

Print shows two men standing in basket of balloon, "Le Pilote". Tissandier collection.

Mr. Green in the Albion Balloon, Having Ascended from Vauxhall Gardens...

Public domain image, 18th-19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Portraits of three balloonists Ippolito Caffi, Francesco Arban, and G...

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rotundo [i.e. Rotunda] Gardens. Mr. Hampton's grand 77th ascent with h...

Broadside announcing an ascension and parachute jump from the Rotunda Gardens, Dublin, Ireland, by balloonist John Hampton. Includes a picture of his balloon "Erin-Go-Bragh." Tissandier collection.

[Balloon with parachute and propellers, associated with Francesco Orla...

Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ils montaient, ils montaient toujours, Political Cartoon

French political cartoon shows a greedy Louis Napoleon trying to climb higher by hanging onto the ropes of a balloon, topped with a crown. The basket breaks free spilling bags of money, and a woman and a child ... More

Éxperience du globe ae̋rostatique du MM. Charles et Robert, au Jardin ...

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (S... More

Mr. Pennington's steam balloon, signs of the times : The Oregon

Print shows an early design for a dirigible-shaped "aerostat" that is powered by steam which drives side-paddles; includes a smokestack at top center and flags at both ends. Includes five lines of text and two... More

Ascent of [H] Bell's aerial machine, from Vauxhall Gardens

Woodcut from Ill. London News, July 27, 1850. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Honore Daumier - Une Descente en parachute

Public domain reproduction of Honore Daumier artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Honoré Daumier - French artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who lived in the 19th century.... More

L'arriveé, Tissandier Collection, France

Drawing shows the descent of a balloon with a parachutist below and balloonist in basket controlling descent. Tissandier collection.

Vista del globo aereostatico que se hechò ante sus magesta des y su re...

Print shows Vincenzo Lunardi ascending from the Royal Palace, Madrid, January 8, 1793 with royal coat-of-arms hanging from the gondola; Lunardi's second balloon ascension in Spain. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC st... More

Parachute renversè de Henin - Public domain book illustration

Print shows man standing in the basket of an ascending balloon which features an elaborate system of sails and a reversed parachute underneath the basket. "Page 178." Illustration from an unidentified book or p... More

Exhibition. The balloon and flying dragon. The devil running away with...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of broadside, free to use, no copyright restrictions image

La Quatorzieme Expérience aerostatique de M. Blanchard accompagné du C...

Widmung: Dediée à Messieurs les Magistrats, de la Ville de Lille en Flandre

Enlèvement d'une Montgolfière devant la terrasse d'un château en 1783

Signature de l'exécutant - monogramme en bas à droite, à l’encre de Chine : "L.A." Date - en bas à droite, à l’encre de Chine : "1783" Tampon - à l’encre noire, en bas à gauche : "CARNAVALET". Des personnages e... More

Le globe volant. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows a man navigating a balloon with an attached oar and rudder while seated in the basket. "Page 164." Illus. from an unidentified book or periodical. Tissandier collection.

Par autorisation de M. Le Maire de la ville de Rouen. Le Sieur Bollé, ...

Text-only broadside announcing a balloon ascension at the Place de la Cathd́rale, Rouen, France. Tissandier collection.

Wien aus dem Luftballon gesehen - von Süden

Blatt mit Umrissen der Gebäude darauf die Zahlenlegende, gehört zu FKB-Vues Österreich-Ungarn, Wien I, Panorama 13

[Stereograph View of a Hot Air Balloon]

Unknown Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

La Sirène, Tissandier Collection, France

Print shows the balloon "La Sirène" flying with one man on board. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.) Tissandier collection.

Drawing for an Illustration in "Voyages du Flandre"

Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description