Balloon Collection (page 4)

Trainee paratroops descending from a Barrage Balloon
Royal Air Force - Trainee paratroops descending from a Barrage Balloon, during training. The RAF's Balloon Operations Squadron, flying barrage balloons, was active training paratroops

Dunlop tyres advert
Advert for Dunlop low pressure tyres, called the Dunlop balloon. They are advertised as a luxury tyre. Date: 1925

Dirigible Los Angeles
Americans Dirigible ??los Angeles?, formerly Zeppelin R3, which went from Jersey to Bermuda and back. An airship or dirigible balloon is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can

Advertisement for Bovril, barrage balloon
Advertisement for Bovril, man in red and white striped pyjamas, red slippers, riding barrage balloon in a blue sky, holding cup of Bovril aloft. Captioned, Bovril prevents that sinking feeling'

Princess Blucher goes ballooning
Evelyn Furstin Blucher von Wahlstatt (1876-1960) was an Englishwoman who married an anglophile Prussian aristocrat. She went on to spend the Great War years in Germany

Advertisement for Dunlop low pressure tyres. Scenic colour illustration, with fairy, trees and flowers, and Dunlop Cord Balloon tyre in foreground

Royal Aero Club of Great Britain Balloon, Elsie, at Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, 1925 Date: 1925

Barrage balloons protecting RAF station, Cardington, Beds
Barrage balloons protecting RAF station, Cardington, Bedfordshire Date: 1938

Music cover, Masquerade, waltz song, words by Paul Francis Webster, music by John Jacob Loeb. Date: 1932

Piccard's Gondola
Gondola used by Professor Auguste Antoine Piccard (1884-1962) and Max Cosyns (1906-1998) for the second ascent into the Sratosphere on August 18, 1932

Smoke trail of observation balloon, WW1
Smoke trail of an enemy observation balloon, First World War. 1914-1918

French War Balloon Patrie 1907
The latest success in military ballooning, the yellow Patrie maneuvering at a height of about a thousand feet above the Opera Quarter in Paris. Date: 8th July 1907

Germany and France - Conquest of the Air 1907
German and France, rivalry between two air-ships. The German air-ship that stayed up the longest for three hours over Berlin, over the French rival La Patrie. Date: 1907

First Powered Airship - British Army Dirigible No 1
The new British lead military airship Dirigible No 1, christened Nulli Secundus, made its maiden ascent at Farnborough. The early design work was carried out by Colonel James Templer

Clment-Bayard No. 1 Airship 1908
Adolphe Clement-Bayard's latest French dirigible military airship, piloted by M. Henri Kapferer in response to a French Army decision to experiment with airship operations

Wellman's Attempt to Reach the North Pole 1907
Front cover of The Sphere showing the bow view of the airship. The start of the adventurous journey to reach the North Pole in the airship America. Date: 2 September 1907

Biggest experimental airship built at the time, designed by Dr. Barton and F. L. Rawson flying over Alexandra Palace, London. Date: 22nd July 1905

Children campaigning against cuts in free school milk
Children campaigning against planned cuts in free school milk and other services, October 1970. Date: 1970

La Ville de Paris - Airship 1907
Photograph of Henry Kapferer the pilot of the La Ville de Paris, throwing out ballast while floating above Paris. Date: 1907

ZENITH BALLOON ACCIDENT
Carrying away the dead bodies following the fatal crash of the balloon Zenith when the aeronauts on board fainted due to the ballon's high altitude Date: May 1, 1875

CARRIED ALOFT BY BALLOON
An Italian soldier gets entangled with a balloon's mooring rope, and is swept 300 metres into the air before falling to his death. Date: 1899

BALLOON ACCIDENT 1899
A balloonist dies in an accident at Beuzeville, France. Date: 1899

Michel in the air 1909
As financial reform the German authorites squeeze the common man dry and then utilise his skin for balloon- making, thus flying Germany's future in the air Date: 1909

Andree's balloon, in gold, decorates the cover of this book. Date: 1898

Dupuy de Lome's dirigible at Fort Vincennes, Paris. Date: 1872

Professor Dales balloon adventure at Gibraltar, 1889. An interesting balloon ascent was performed on 7th December 1889 by the aeronautic Professor Dale

Original Artwork - Christmas thank you card design
Original Artwork - Design for a Christmas thank you card - teddy bear holding a green balloon and sprig of mistletoe. Date: circa 1937

Daimler-engined powered gas balloon Date: circa 1900

Comic postcard, Protection for rollerskating Date: early 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A Mans Job
The Caption is A Mans job. Women filled so many jobs while the men were away. There is a series of photos showing King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at a balloon site

Bathers in swimming basin pool Antwerp Anvers Belgium
Vintage late 19th century photograph - bathers in a swimming basin pool Antwerp Anvers Belgium

Airship Bournemouth. Maiden flight at RAF Cardington
Airship Bournemouth. Maiden flight at RAF Balloon Centre, Cardington. Built for Festival of Britian, for the Airship Club under the direction of Lord Vantry - being the first built in Britain since

Glaisher and Coxwell balloon flight, 1862
Aeronaut Henry Coxwell and meteorologist James Glaisher prepare the balloon car ready for one of their scientific observation expeditions. Date: 17th July 1862

Cartoon, Drury Lane Theatre, London, with balloon
Cartoon, No more pictorial posters for Drury Lane; the newspapers and a balloon will do the necessary advertising! 1885

Cartoon, Mr Holland and the injunction balloon
Cartoon, Don t let that injunction balloon stop you, Mr Holland - a comment on the attempt by the Duke of Bedford (freeholder) to stop the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

Conquest of the Air, first hot air balloon by Montgolfier, with a modern airship in the foreground. circa 1923

German Fairground with Sideshows - Mainz, Germany. The stalls include the chance to see a Giant Lady, a South sea Islander, an electric shick machine and a balloon seller. Date: 1899

Medieval ball games
Man and woman playing handball, 14th century (top), two teams playing balloon ball, 14th century (middle), and men playing golf or bandy-ball, 14th century (bottom)

The balloon man, caricature of the balloonist Montgolfier
The balloon man, l homme aux ballons, caricature of the balloonist Montgolfier by Jean-Baptiste Letourmy of Orleans, 18th century

Balloon plant or smooth heart-seed, Cardiospermum halicacabum, close-leaved fern fork-moss, Dicranum osmundioides, and brown fork-moss, Dicranum fuscescens

Humboldt squid, Dosidicus gigas (Balloon cuttlefish, Sepia tunicata). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

The Italian Grimacier or pantomime artist
Italian street pantomime artist in grotesque wig, playing a bizarre one-string violin with balloon. This young Italian man with black eyes excels at terrible grimaces

Balloon plant, Cardiospermum halicacabum, and goosefoot, Chenopodium species. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Men of the Kingdom of Gingiro crossing the Gibe River (Zebee River) in Ethiopia using an inflated cowskin. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Balloon flower, Platycodon grandiflorus (Great-flowered bellflower, Campanula grandiflora). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1794

Balloon and parachute pioneers, 18th century
Etienne and Joseph Montgolfiers hot-air balloon 1, and brazier a, Professor Jacques Charless balloon and gondola 2, hydrogen-gas mechanism b, and Jean-Pierre Blanchard with his parachute 3

Captain William Duncan Dale ready for balloon ascent
Captain William Duncan Dale ready for his balloon ascent at Crystal Palace, Sydenham, SE London, July 1892. 1892

Captain William Duncan Dale, who died in a balloon crash at Crystal Palace, Sydenham, SE London, on 29 June 1892. late 19th century

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