Photographers:
Connections:

Balloons, airships and dirigibles


 
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Contents

Examples
1Balloon flights
2Airships
Photographers
3Nadar: Balloon flights
4S.A. King: Balloon flights
5James Wallace Black: Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It (13 October 1860)
6Cecil Victor Shadbolt: Ballooning and aerial photography in Great Britain and France
7The wedding of Margaret Buckley and Edward T. Davis (27 September 1888)
8Nils Strindberg: S.A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (1897)
9Eduard Spelterini: Aerial views
10Umberto Nobile expedition to the North Pole with the airship Italia (1928)
Archaeology
11Palestine: Megiddo: Aerial archaeological surveying with a balloon (1930s)
Events
12The wedding of Margaret Buckley and Edward T. Davis (27 September 1888)
Disasters
13Hindenburg disaster (6 May 1937)
Studio foregrounds and backgrounds
14Studio backgrounds and foregrounds: Balloons

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