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Summary
Airship flown by Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau
Postcard featuring a hand-drawn illustrated depiction of a flying airship with assorted propulsion mechanisms and a French flag. The illustration depicts a type of airship flown by French chemist and politician Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737-1816) in 1784.
1784 (Date attributed to balloon flight)
1909 (Date attributed to postcard)
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).
Retro Photographs from Paris, France
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Date
1909
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