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46 photos and 1 illustration tagged balloons, from 18 members of Flickr Commons.

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• blackandwhite
• landscape
• photography
• worldwar1
• advertisements
• 1890s
• portraits
• politics
• americanflags
• promotionalmaterials
• cornelluniversitylibrary
• culidentifier:lunafield=idnumber
• parachutes
• celebrations
• sketches
• marketing
• fireworks
• torches
• unity
• flags
• capes
• shirts
• lanterns
• merchandise

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• Australian War Memorial collection 14 photos & illustrations
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 10 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 6 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• Florida Memory 1 photo / illustration
• The Library of Virginia 1 photo / illustration

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Santa arrives in a chariot driven by a "sheik", n.d. / by Sam Hood

from State Library of New South Wales

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Antique Dog Photos said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Old Photos with Horses, and we'd love to have this added to the group! It is great.

• Terrific Lake said:

  great shot

• Trylle A-Å said:

  Suddenly reindeer and flying seems so.. unglamorous.

• Kerri-Jo Stewart said:

  what a great historical photo it really tells a cool story!

• cranberryblue said:

  Perhaps a bit like the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas ?

A row of spherical barrage balloons used for suspending aerial nets

from Australian War Memorial collection

• Peter G said:

  These are early Italian balloons flown from rafts with single cables to protect Venice. www.bbrclub.org

German observation balloon (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  This photo was published in the NYT pictorial section of Feb 14, 1915, page 7 memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/np_item.pl?collection=sgproto&... or memory.loc.gov/service/sgp/sgpnyt/1915/191502/19150214/00... Caption attributes photo to Gebruder Haeckel