Longchamps Collection

The first flight of Santos-Dumont airship No5 from Longc?
The first flight of Santos-Dumont airship No5 from Longchamps

Longchamps Year 7
An illustration of a green coated gentleman on horseback speaking with a young woman in a red coat riding astride him at Longchamps. Date: circa 1901

Ticket for Longchamps Hippodrome, 6 June 1867
Ticket for revue at Longchamps Hippodrome, 6 June 1867, for Baron de Bourgoing. Date: 1867

The shelter on the Longchamps Race Course, 1868. Woman in tunic over a white crinoline, and woman in pink crinoline dress with train. The Hippodrome de Longchamp racetrack opened in 1857

Gentleman smoking in the Cafe de la Rotonde, 1868
The palmy days of the Cafe de la Rotonde in the Palais Royal, Paris, 1868. Man with moustache and muttonchops, top hat and check trousers, smoking in a cafe. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

A sentimental walk in the Abbey of Longchamps, 1836. Woman in dress with wide-bell skirt and narrow sleeves, beret. Man in top hat, coat and pants. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Two gentlemen at the Opera Ball, 1835
Fops in coat with tails, waistcoat, tight pants and white stockings. People in fancy dress and masks behind them. At the Opera Ball 1835. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Woman strolling in the Gardens of the Tuileries, 1819
Woman strolling in the Gardens of the Tuileries, near the rue de Rivoli, 1819. She wears a bonnet, lace collar and satin walking dress

Fashionable woman in front of the Bains Vigier, 1797
Fashionable woman or Merveilleuse in front of the Bains Vigier or Vigiers thermal baths on the banks of the River Seine, Year V, 1797. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Mannequins at Races - 2
Two mannequins, dressed in a leading couturiers latest creations, arrive at Longchamps racecourse on Grand Prix day, attracting considerable attention 1910

Polaire at Longchamps
Emilie Polaire (1877 - 1939), French actress and music hall entertainer reputed to have the smallest waist in the world, but pictured at Longchamps racecourse

The Dolly Sisters in Paris, 1926 at the Longchamps races Date: 1926

Palace Longchamps, Marseilles, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Pulain Manpowered 1921
At Longchamps, Paris, cyclist Pulain attempts to win the Prix Peugeot for a successful man-powered flight

LEGAY AVIETTE 1920
Competing for the Prix Peugeot at Longchamps, Paris, is the man-powered aviette of Legay, piloted by Jacques Noel who must pedal furiously to turn those twin propellers

Longchamps Style for Men
Strapped trousers (one pair in a twill fabric), top hats, spurs, gibus, canes, cravats, boots with elongated toes, pleated shirt fronts, shawl waistcoat with roll collar

Longchamps Grand Prix
Fanfares and dancing girls at the Grand Prix at Longchamps, Paris

Pari-Mutuel Betting
Racing speculators hoping to accumulate bet at a Pari- Mutuel at Longchamps, France

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