Retro-Futurism & Science Fiction

Public domain scan of a portrait print, bust portrait drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Design drawing shows front and side elevations and plan of balloon with devices designed to facilitate navigation and maneuverability while in the air. Tissandier collection.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an early aircraft, balloon, airship, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Design drawing for an airship navigational system project by Stoupy Bijou consisting of five balloons fastened to a sixty foot mast, a rudder, two 12 foot long oars, and two polygonal vanes to control the rise More

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Print shows a flying machine returning from the moon. Plate IV from Altre scoverte fatte nella luna dal Sigr. Herschel / Leopoldo Galluzzo ; J.N Nicollet ; Gaetano Dura ; Richard Adams Locke. Napoli : L. Gatti More

Pictorial lettersheet shows British inventor William Samuel Henson's proposed steam powered flying machine in an imaginary flight over the Thames River, London, 1843. Attempts to fly a model of the aerial steam More

Drawing shows the descent of a balloon with a parachutist below and balloonist in basket controlling descent. Tissandier collection.

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "The Story Hunter or Tales of the weird and wild, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British L More

Print shows man standing in the basket of an ascending balloon which features an elaborate system of sails and a reversed parachute underneath the basket. "Page 178." Illustration from an unidentified book or p More

Illustration shows a man navigating a balloon with an attached oar and rudder while seated in the basket. "Page 164." Illus. from an unidentified book or periodical. Tissandier collection.

This image has been taken from scan 000125 from "The Purchase of the North Pole: a sequel to “From the Earth to the Moon” ... Illustrated". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tag More

This image has been taken from scan 000211 from "Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour. [The story of a visit to the planet Mars.] Edited [or rather written] by C. Dixon, etc". The title and subject terms of this image More

Cartoon shows a hot air balloon labeled "Suffrage Universel" with wings floating above the Pyrenees and headed toward a sign labeled "Espagne". Illus. from: Actualités, no. 248. Tissandier collection.

This image has been taken from scan 000193 from "Babylon Electrified. The history of an expedition undertaken to restore ancient Babylon by the power of electricity, and how it resulted ... Translated ... by Fr More

Broadside depicts two airship designs conceived by Ernst (Ernest) Pétin, incorporating four spherical balloons propelled by manually operated helical screws attached to a large flat surface, the lower part prov More

Print shows Taillepied de La Garenne's proposed system of aerial navigation consisting of a balloon with a double parachute on a single axis capable of transporting six persons; parachutes open on an axis exten More

Print shows Taillepied de La Garenne's proposed system of aerial navigation consisting of a balloon with a double parachute on a single axis capable of transporting six persons; parachutes in open position exte More

Scaled design drawing shows a system for navigating an airship using propellers. Includes plans of dirigible platform body and complete platform assembly, and identification key. Tissandier collection.

Scaled design drawings for a patent show Aug. Lanteigne's system of aerial navigation, which used a continuous belt of sails to achieve propulsion. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.) Tissandier collection.

Illus. from: "Memoire sur la vol artificiel," by George Cayley, in Société aérostatique et météorologique de France, bull. no. 4, 1853, pl. 1. Title devised by library staff. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1 More

Design drawing shows a system for powering an airship with manually operated propellers. Includes longitudinal views of dirigible platform assembly and identification key. Tissandier collection.

Scaled design drawing for a patent submitted by J.B. Métivier shows two cross-sections for a fish shaped airship utilizing balloons, sails, bellows, and propellers to transport passengers. (Source: A.G. Renstro More

Broadside announcing a conference on flight designs by Camille Vert. Includes pictures of a lighter-than-air 'flying fish' airship and a heavier-than-air 'winged man' ornithopter. Tissandier collection.

Broadside announcing the exhibit at the Palais de l'industrie, séances expérimentales in Paris of a fish-shaped, steam-powered airship designed by Camille Vert. Features design drawing of the airship, equipped More

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French cartoon shows a man riding on a bicycle-like flying machine while looking through a telescope attached to the front. Two balloons, "Veloc[ipedes]" and "Domanie," are attached at front and rear as are pro More

Design drawings for a man-powered flying machine with manually controlled wings entitled, "Vélocipède aérien," proposed by Jean Jacques Bourcart, Paris, August, 1866. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.) More

Print shows several people in a hot-air balloon with bombs bursting around them, masses of dead people on the ground, in a scene depicting an imagined the end of the world. Title and other descriptive informati More

Bella C. Landauer collection. Appears to be one sheet from a larger poster. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1964:R1.

Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Print shows a futuristic view of air travel over Paris as people leave the Opera. Many types of aircraft are depicted including buses and limousenes, police patrol the skies, and women are seen driving their ow More

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Illustration shows an interior view of a hall in a museum with four men sitting quietly beneath a shelf of "Books of Religious Reference"; there is a small crowd gathered before them. Further along the hall is More

Drawing shows an airship "Cures d'air" supporting the "Pension Bellevue" for individuals requiring medical care and floating above a mountainous region. One of the artist's conceptions for his book on life in t More

Clipping from an unknown book or magazine advertises the French aeronautical journal "Le ballon" and illustrates various means of flight including an ornithopter, early balloons and an airship. Text on verso a More

French circus poster shows two performers in the basket of an airship navigated by a rudder and a propeller. The basket bears the date 1884. Tissandier collection.

Broadside announcing an aeronautics exhibition organized under the direction of balloonist Eugene Godard and held in Paris in 1885. Includes picture of the balloon "L'Avenir" equipped with two separate passenge More

Title devised by cataloger. Published, possibly as title page, in "The Automaton Dummy : Bovine Usher" by Wallace Peck, Life, 8:25 (July 8, 1886). (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustra More

This image has been taken from scan 000392 from "The Angel of the Revolution: a tale of the coming Terror. ... With illustrations by F. T. Janes". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated f More

This image has been taken from scan 000383 from "The Angel of the Revolution: a tale of the coming Terror. ... With illustrations by F. T. Janes". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated f More

This image has been taken from scan 000259 from "The Angel of the Revolution: a tale of the coming Terror. ... With illustrations by F. T. Janes". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated f More

This image has been taken from scan 000371 from "The Angel of the Revolution: a tale of the coming Terror. ... With illustrations by F. T. Janes". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated f More

Public domain scan of scient fiction illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This image has been taken from scan 000236 from "The Angel of the Revolution: a tale of the coming Terror. ... With illustrations by F. T. Janes". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated f More

This image has been taken from scan 000271 from "The Angel of the Revolution: a tale of the coming Terror. ... With illustrations by F. T. Janes". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated f More

This image has been taken from scan 000140 from "The Angel of the Revolution: a tale of the coming Terror. ... With illustrations by F. T. Janes". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated f More

This image has been taken from scan 000214 from "The Angel of the Revolution: a tale of the coming Terror. ... With illustrations by F. T. Janes". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated f More

This image has been taken from scan 000199 from "The Angel of the Revolution: a tale of the coming Terror. ... With illustrations by F. T. Janes". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated f More

Print shows a future 4th of July celebration where women have gained suffrage and equality; it shows young and old women ringing a bell labeled "Equal Rights", as women emerge from underground and participate i More

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "Olga Romanoff: or, the Syren of the Skies. A sequel to “The Angel of the Revolution.”". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, More

This image has been taken from scan 000081 from "The Outlaws of the Air, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

This image has been taken from scan 000049 from "Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour. [The story of a visit to the planet Mars.] Edited [or rather written] by C. Dixon, etc". The title and subject terms of this image More

This image has been taken from scan 000132 from "Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour. [The story of a visit to the planet Mars.] Edited [or rather written] by C. Dixon, etc". The title and subject terms of this image More

This image has been taken from scan 000045 from "The Outlaws of the Air, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

This image has been taken from scan 000267 from "The Outlaws of the Air, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

This image has been taken from scan 000333 from "The Outlaws of the Air, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

This image has been taken from scan 000178 from "Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour. [The story of a visit to the planet Mars.] Edited [or rather written] by C. Dixon, etc". The title and subject terms of this image More

This image has been taken from scan 000221 from "The Outlaws of the Air, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

This image has been taken from scan 000126 from "The Outlaws of the Air, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour. [The story of a visit to the planet Mars.] Edited [or rather written] by C. Dixon, etc". The title and subject terms of this image More

This image has been taken from scan 000069 from "The Outlaws of the Air, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

This image has been taken from scan 000141 from "The Outlaws of the Air, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

Print shows Uncle Sam comforting a crying female figure labeled "Cuba", as two men with broken swords labeled "Insurgent" and "Spaniard" take a break from fighting. Caption: When insurgent and Spaniard have wo More

This image has been taken from scan 000080 from "Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour. [The story of a visit to the planet Mars.] Edited [or rather written] by C. Dixon, etc". The title and subject terms of this image More

This image has been taken from scan 000310 from "The Outlaws of the Air, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

Print shows a well-dressed couple sitting on a sofa before a fire in the fireplace, with the spirits of three young children dancing around a Christmas tree; there are art-nouveau style furnishings (lamp and fl More

Drawing shows a woman at the wheel of a futuristic aircraft. A man sits beside her. The drawing appeared on the cover of "All Story" magazine. Accession box no. 55 (C size)

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Illustration shows various forms of transportation owned by the government and operated by an abundance of government employees, suggesting that some level of corruption is also an aspect of federal, state, or More

Cartoon showing church with a large building built around it. Wood engraving by Albert Levering. Illus. in: Puck, 1907 March 6. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4249. This record contains unverified, old data from capti More

Illustration shows an imaginary battle where aircraft, battleships, and submarines are engaged in shooting at each other. Caption: Whereas formerly we fought our naval battles on top of the water only, we now More

Illustration shows John Bull, standing with one foot on England and the other on Ireland, holding strings attached to many warships which encircle the United Kingdom, while overhead fly menacing armed aircraft. More

Illustration shows German soldiers and officers invading England by means of hot-air balloons and other types of airships; also shows German emperor William II dictating "Fall of Albion an epic poem by the Kais More

Illustration shows a large winged-serpent wearing a friendly mask, frightening the passengers aboard an airship. Caption: Which of our aerial navigators will report him first? Illus. in: Puck, v. 65, no. 1689 More

Illustration shows a woman mooring an airship to the chimney on the roof of her home by the light of a full moon; on board the airship are "American Goods Bought in England" that are being smuggled into the U.S More

Illustration shows the new year, "1911", arriving by airplane, while on the ground Father Time looks aghast at the airplane overhead and the wreck of his automobile labeled "1910".

Illustration shows a two panel cartoon showing on the left, pedestrians and people in and on top of buildings looking with amazement at an airplane flying over a city; and on the right, citizens no longer take More

Illustration shows an old man labeled "Republican Reactionary" and an old woman labeled "Democratic Reactionary" standing together, looking up at a dirigible labeled "Progressive Policies". Caption: "Well, the More

Illustration shows an outlandishly dressed tour guide at a museum explaining an exhibit showing a ticker tape machine to an equally outlandishly dressed couple touring the museum. Caption: Museum Attendant (in More

Poster showing a soldier shaking his fist at a zeppelin following bombing.

Poster showing a dirigible in the night sky over London, illuminated by a searchlight.

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Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

United Airlines Boeing 247 airplane, ca. 1935..Photographer: .Unknown..Subjects (LCSH):.Airplanes--Drawings.Boeing 247 (Transport plane).United Airlines.Globes.Advertisements..Digital Collection: .Transportatio More

The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United States in 1939-1940. The 1939-1940 World's Fair was themed "The World of Tomorrow" and featured pavilions and exhibit More

Photograph shows a man dressed in a Martian costume. NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Förbjuden värld 1959. Public domain image of 20th century Sweden, Industrial history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Robot "Vanya". Public domain image of 20th century Sweden, Industrial history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description