Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of a globe-shaped flying balloon. The illustration depicts the first successful public hot air balloon demonstration on June 4, 1783 by French brothers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (1745-1799). This postcard is part of a set originally collected in a scrapbook entitled Album Gravures et Cartes-Postales: Vieux Paris Types Petits Métiers et Cris De La Rue (1909).
Molynk, A. “First Montgolfier Brothers Balloon.” Watercolor (paint), 1783–1909. Box 287. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/rv042v13m.
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