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Summary

										1^re série	2^e série
Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning and parachuting history
	1	2	3	4	5	Full sheet		6	7	8	9	10
	Les frères Montgolfier (1784) N°. 1 1^re expérience aérostatique a Annonay (1783) N°. 2 Charles lance à Paris le premier aérostat (1783) N°. 3 Premier voyage aérien Pilâtre de Rozier et d'Arlandes (1783) N°. 4 Premier voyage aérien par Charles et Robert (1783) N°. 5 The Montgolfier brothers (1784) N°. 1 1st aerostatics flight demonstration at Annonay (1783) N°. 2 Charles launches the first balloon in Paris (1783) N°. 3 First aerial trip Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes (1783) N°. 4 First flight by Charles and Robert (1783) N°. 5						N°. 6 1^er essai de direction de ballons, Guyton de Morveau (1784) N°. 7 Traversée en ballon du Pas-de-Calais par Blanchard et Jefferies (1785) N°. 8 Mort de Pilâtre de Rozier et de Romain (1785) N°. 9 Transport de l'Entreprenant de Maubeuge à Charleroi (1794) N°. 10 L'Entreprenant, ballon monté par Coutelle, bataille de Fleurus (1794) N°. 6 1st navigation test of balloons, Guyton de Morveau (1784) N°. 7 Balloon crossing of Strait of Dover by Blanchard and Jeffries (1785) N°. 8 Death of Pilâtre de Rozier and Pierre Romain (1785) N°. 9 Moving L'Entreprenant balloon from Maubeuge to Charleroi (1794) N°. 10 L'Entreprenant balloon manned by Coutelle, Battle of Fleurus (1794)
	Medium: 10 prints (ephemera) (1 sheet) : chromolithograph. Created/published: Paris : Romanet & cie., imp. edit., [between 1890 and 1900] Notes: sheet of 10 uncut cards, individually captioned and numbered; issued as "Collection 476," "1^re série."; French captions on each card; Tissandier collection. Exhibited: "The Dream of Flight" : American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003-04.
Call number: LOT 13416, no. 31 [P&P]; reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02562 (digital file from original print); card number: 2002717348. No known restrictions on publication.
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Recognition

This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 20 November 2009. It was captioned as follows:

English: Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning and parachuting history

Other languages:

Čeština: Historické kartičky s obrázky důležitých událostí z dějin balonového létání

Dansk: Samling af postkort med billeder af begivenheder i ballonflyvningens og faldskærmsudspringets historie

Deutsch: Sammelkarten mit Motiven aus der Geschichte der Ballonfahrt und des Fallschirmspringens; Frankreich, spätes 19. Jahrhundert.

English: Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning and parachuting history

Español: Cartas coleccionables con imágenes de sucesos de la historia del globo aerostático y el paracaidismo.

Esperanto: Kolektokartoj kun bildoj de eventoj en la historio de balonflugado.

Français : Cartes de collection représentant des événements de l'histoire des aérostats et du parachutisme.

Italiano: Carte da collezione con disegni di eventi legati alla storia delle mongolfiere e del paracadutismo

Magyar: Kártyagyűjtemény a léggömbök hőskorában.

Nederlands: verzamelkaarten met afbeeldingen van gebeurtenissen uit de geschiedenis van het ballonvaren en parachutespringen

Polski: Karty kolekcjonerskie przedstawiające ważne wydarzenia z historii baloniarstwa i spadochroniarstwa

Português: Coleção de cartões sobre a história do balonismo.

Македонски: Колекционерски картички со слики од настани од историјата на балоните и падобранството

বাংলা : বেলুন ও প্যারাশুটের ইতিহাসের বিভিন্ন ঘটনাচিত্র সম্বলিত কার্ডের সংকলন।

中文：气球和跳伞的历史图片集

中文（繁體）：以熱氣球和跳傘歷史為題的收藏卡

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current	09:29, 28 January 2013	4,911 × 2,930 (13.5 MB)	Trialsanderrors	Reverted to version as of 04:50, 21 February 2009, unnecessary
	10:40, 25 January 2013	4,911 × 2,930 (14.52 MB)	Slick-o-bot	Bot: convert to a non-interlaced jpeg (see bug #17645)
	04:50, 21 February 2009	4,911 × 2,930 (13.5 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Reverted to version as of 23:30, 1 April 2007
	00:51, 2 April 2007	2,456 × 1,465 (3.14 MB)	Trialsanderrors	Downsampled 50%, correct version
	23:33, 1 April 2007	2,456 × 1,474 (3.15 MB)	Trialsanderrors	Downsampled 50%
	23:30, 1 April 2007	4,911 × 2,930 (13.5 MB)	Trialsanderrors	{{LOC-iamge\|id=ppmsca.02562}}{{PD-Old}}