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15 photos and 18 illustrations tagged hotairballoon, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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• balloon
• publicdomain
• bldigital
• mechanicalcurator
• sherlocknet:tag=place
• lighterthanair
• pubplacelondon
• ballooning
• large
• vol03
• aviation
• sherlocknet:tag=grand
• date1896
• sysnum001567835
• 1910s
• aircraft
• pubplaceparis
• medium
• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• gasballoon
• sherlocknet:tag=nature
• sherlocknet:tag=tout
• sherlocknet:tag=france

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• British Library 14 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 5 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 2 photos & illustrations
• The Field Museum Library 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library NZ on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• North East Museums 1 photo / illustration
• Bibliothèque de Toulouse 1 photo / illustration
• Smithsonian Institution 1 photo / illustration
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 1 photo / illustration

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Stereoscopic photograph of a hot air balloon at the Domain, Auckland, 191-?

from National Library NZ on The Commons

• pollyshoes said:

  thats so cool!

• Nickmard Khoey Historical Archive said:

  Wicked. Its amazing seeing what AK looked like back in the day...

• Brenda Anderson said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Full of Hot Air, and we'd love to have this added to the group! I think it would be our oldest hot air photo! :)

Along the Plaisance

from The Field Museum Library

• Jennifer Holcombe said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ***This should be a Postcard!***, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Filling balloon on Wanamaker's (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 2 older comments, and then…
• jdshephe46 said:

  This is the John Wanamaker (now Macy's) store in Philadelphia. The statue of William Penn atop City Hall can be seen behind the balloon.

• Wystan said:

  No, this is the John Wanamaker store at Broadway and Tenth Avenue in New York City. The balloon was launched from the rooftop here on July 8, 1911. It intended to go to Philadelphia, but got lost in fog, and ended up in West Nyack. The New York Times ran a story on July 9, 1911: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9506E0D71431E233A... Another Bain/LOC photo of the Wanamaker balloon: And another: Balloonist Leo Stevens in the basket of the Wanamaker balloon:

• Anne (LOC P&P) said:

  Wystan: Thanks for pointing us to the story of the Wanamaker balloon. We'll add the location and date to the description next time we update the record.

• Richard Norton said:

  The picture was taken at Broadway and Tenth Street in Manhattan and in the background is the tallest building in New York City at the time, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, built in 1909. This gives us the direction that the photographer is pointing. He was looking Northeast up Broadway.

• allenamet said:

  I would like to find info on the correct birthdate for Leo Stevens. Many sources give 1876-1877 but that can't be right. Would also like to verify the dates of his two marriages, the first to Julia (ca 1897), and the second to Laura (ca 1925). Thx. Allen allenametATaol.com