FRANCE - SWITZERLAND - BALLOONISTS - WAR OF 1870 - FIRST WOR - Lot 361

FRANCE - SWITZERLAND - BALLOONISTS - WAR OF 1870 - FIRST WORLD WAR Album presenting views, mainly of balloons and military maneuvers, 1871-1937. Photographs. Album containing approximately 330 vintage citrate prints, except for 4 later prints from the 1870 war, produced around 1900. Military in front of Longjumeaux town hall and balloons, Château de la Rochefort, Dijon cavalcade: parades, floats and costumes, balloons and locomotive at Chalons camp, Auxonne, Autun, Alesia, biplane flying over a cart with cannon; settlers and locals in Sudan, Bourges: procession to the cathedral, Paris-Bordeaux car race, Saint-Jean-de-Lasne, Is-sur-Tille; Nancy: place Carnot, Chêne des partisans in Martigny (Vosges), Verdun sur le Doubs; Dijon: maneuvers by foreign officers, town hall; Corcelles-les-arts; Switzerland: Neuchâtel, maneuvers by balloonists in Châlons-sur-Marne in 1902; 1870 war: crew with cannon, army, mounted soldiers, Reuss gorges; Vittel: casino, park, Martigny, Switzerland: sea of ice, moonlight on the mountains, Saint-Maurice: tunnel and abbey; boats on Lake Geneva and in Toulon harbor; woman in front of a bay in Brittany, Saint-Briac; soldiers in Antwerp and Ciry (Aisne) in 1914, views of the Morvan countryside, Bruges, Brest, Marcilly-sur-Tille, Dole, Mali: governor's palace in Bamako, central pyrotechnics school in Bourges: factories, engineers with their vials, young man with camera, Nancy: 1909 international exhibition, barracks of the 69th infantry regiment, regattas on the Escaut, sea of sand at Ermenonville, tractions, hunting rendezvous at Crouy-sur-Ourcy, Varengeville-sur-Mer; Creuse: cascade des Jarreaux and Rigole du Diable, Saint-Sernin, Tarn, Monaco exotic garden. Images: 6 x 3.6 cm to 16 x 22.2 cm; album: 25 x 33.5 cm