Balloon Collection (page 14)

Five technical illustrations show network of ropes and apparatus for securing multi-passenger platforms on captive balloons; arrangement of ropes for netting;

Four scenes of men and women courting(?) while riding in balloons captioned with rebuses. Date between 1783 and 1800

A lighter-than-air craft, consisting of one large balloon and four smaller balloons harnessed together, decorated with French flags

Design drawing for a navigational system for an airship employing six balloons and parachutes, a deck, superstructure, and basket below. Date between 1820 and 1880

Balloons, airships, and other flying machines designed with some form of propulsion. Date between 1885 and 1904

British Legion Childrens Christmas Party, Walton, Essex

A young flapper girl in a Christmas theme dress
Front Cover of " The Sketch Book & Winters Pie" by Elsie Harding. A young flapper girl in a Christmas theme dress holding flags, balloons and masks. Date: 1928- 1929

Chinese Balloon Trick
A group of children watch a street entertainer perform a trick involving bottles and balloons! Date: 1930s

Having a Party?
Cartoon by Graham showing a couple preparing for what looks like a rather splendid Christmas party with balloons, streamers, cocktails and a buffet. Date: 1953

The Sketch Christmas Number 1934 front cover
Stunning front cover design for The Sketch 1934 Christmas Number featuring a dancer in a slightly revealing fur trimmed costume kicking her leg high against a colourful harlequin diamond background

Poster giving the cost of various weapons and equipment
Wartime poster giving the cost of various weapons and equipment, from aircraft, tanks, ships, guns and shells to barrage balloons and searchlights. 1940s

Champagne, France - Balloon Exhibition. There is a small sign in the foreground asking the crowds not to smoke!!! Date: circa 1910s

Viewing the Coronation by hot air balloon
" NOW do you think my little transaction with the Science Museum was such a crazy idea?" An enterprising group of people enjoy the spectacle of the Coronation of 1953 from the air

Latest dance records, 1923
An advertisement for the latest 10 inch, double sided records from the Gramophone Company. Date: 1923

Abstract design with various shapes
An abstract design with various shapes, including an empty set of shelves and a red brick wall floating in the air

Packet for Balloon Post
An actual envelope for a letter sent by balloon post out of Paris during the Siege. The letters were limited to a weight of 4 grams ! Date: 1870

PICCARDs 1931 ASCENT -2
Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, with colleague Kipfer, reaches record altitude of 16, 201m, ascending from Augsburg and coming down in the Austrian Alps Date: 27 May 1931

Andree Book Cover
Andrees balloon L Aigle depicted on the front cover of a book describing his expedition, published at a time when his fate was still unknown Date: July 1897

Game / Balloon Football
The ladies have balloons on the end of their strings - the gentlemen try to jump on them. He who succeeds in bursting a balloon has won... its all frightfully jolly... Date: 1911

Paris Kite Flying

Oxford River Punting
A May morning in Oxford: the river Cherwell is crowded with punts, balloons are being released and spectators throng the bridge and path Date: 1960s

Fantasy Balloon Project
A fantasy balloon project, pulled along by two birds. Date: 1801

Airships, Dirigible Balloon Race, Beechy Winner. Two dirigibles aloft, one grounded at a balloon race

1930s music sheet
A bright and eye-catching music sheet cover featuring an elegant couple dancing together against a backdrop of colourful balloons

James Gordon Bennett at an international balloon race, Forest park, St Louis. He came in fourth place

Double page spread in a diary for 5-10 September
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 5-10 September. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Little Miss Frolic by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration showing a little girl from the back wearing a green smock dress with matching bloomers and a white sun bonnet

Dancing Couple by Susan Beatrice Pearse
Two children at a fancy dress party dance together, he in a striped suit reminiscent of the French Revolution and she in fairy style tutu

Christmas cracker box design
A jolly design for a box of Christmas crackers featuring three children; two are taking wicked enjoyment in pulling a cracker and frightening an innocent looking little blonde girl

Legless bridge table / W H Robinson
Post War Britain - Social reform. A legless bridge table, kept in place instead by four balloons, hovers, allowing a more intimate game to be played

Wireless telegraph transmitter with balloon-mounted aerial
A balloon carrying a telegraph antenna for a very early wirelss ( sans fils ) transmitter, France

Childrens Party American Indian and Dutch girl
Two children make their way along a garden path to a fancy dress party in costume. The boy is dressed as a Native American Indian complete with feathered head dress

The Blitz on London with Churchill and Royal Family
A circular painting depicting different aspects of the Blitz on London, including King George VI and Queen Elizabeth inspecting bomb damage, home guard serving tea

La France Airship
The first flight of the airship La France built by Charles Renard and Arthur C. Krebs on 9th August 1884. Seen here returning to its hangar after its 5 mile and 23 minute flight in France

Harbonnieres 1918
Australian troops returning from the front after several hard days of fighting at Harbonnieres, Somme, on the Western Front in France during World War I in August 1918

Observation Balloon 1915
Photograph taken from an observation balloon, Thelus near Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I on 26th September 1915

How to Brighten Hotel Life: The Gala Breakfast
This amusing illustration shows a bizarre breakfast scene in a hotel. One of a series specially drawn for The Sketch by Joyce Dennys

A Pair of Barrage Balloons
A Pair of RAF Barrage Balloons at Cardington, Bedfordshire

Festive Card / Bystander
A Christmas card opens, releasing a whole host of festive imagery: dancers, Santa, music, balloons, and plenty of cheer!

Rowe childrens fashion 1926
Advertisement for Rowe of Bond Street, childrens outfitters, showing various illustrations of children in party mood wearing 1920s fashions

How Father Christmas came to earth
Colour illustration by Harold Earnshaw (d.1937) showing Father Christmas floating in the sky, hoisted up by colourful balloons

New Years Eve Party at the Royal Albert Hall, 1925
Illustration showing balloons cascading down onto the revellers at the New Years Eve Party held at the Royal Albert Hall, 1925-6

Birthday Party
Four children at a birthday party, wearing party hats and standing underneath multi-coloured balloons holding wrapped parcels. Ink drawing with watercolour washes by Malcolm Greensmith

Cassells Party Menu
Menu for the staff dinner of the publisher Cassells held on 15 March 1923

The preparation of a kite-balloon before take-off
Allied soldiers photographed putting the finishing touches to the envelope of a kite-balloon shortly before take-off. Such balloons remained tethered to the ground

A British observation-officer testing his communications equ
A British observation-officer testing the communications equipment which allowed him to speak to the ground when aloft in his kite-balloon

A British observation-officers parachute being tested
Photograph of a British observation-officers parachute being tested prior to his take-off in a kite-balloon. Such balloons remained tethered to the ground

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