Airplanes Collection (#4)

King Albert I and pilot in front of biplane in Flanders during the First World War, Belgium
UIG5415708 King Albert I and pilot in front of biplane in Flanders during the First World War, Belgium; UIG

Illustration showing Drzewiecti's cycle powered flying machine, Leipzig. 1895
5311482 Illustration showing Drzewiecti's cycle powered flying machine, Leipzig. 1895; (add.info.: Date: 1895); Universal History Archive/UIG

War of 1914 - 1918: French cavalry, aviation and an allegory of the homeland
JAB5037076 War of 1914 - 1918: French cavalry, aviation and an allegory of the homeland. Postcard from the beginning of the 20th century; (add.info.: War of 1914 - 1918: French cavalry)

First World War: France, Patriotic greeting postcard showing a drawing of France on a Bleriot plane accompanying a
LUX4736614 First World War: France, Patriotic greeting postcard showing a drawing of France on a Bleriot plane accompanying a cavalry load, 1915

First World War: France, Patriotic postcard of a studio photo showing Father Noel bringing warrior toys to two children
LUX4736927 First World War: France, Patriotic postcard of a studio photo showing Father Noel bringing warrior toys to two children thinking of their father fighting at the front

First World War: France, Drawing showing the distribution of mail at the front, 1915
LUX4737242 First World War: France, Drawing showing the distribution of mail at the front, 1915; (add.info.: World War I - War 14-18 (1914-1918) - World War I (WWI or WW1): France

Wilbur Wright
NWI4948997 Wilbur Wright.; (add.info.: Wilbur Wright.); Photo © North Wind Pictures

Albatross glider
5616612 Albatross glider; (add.info.: Jean Marie Le Bris (1817 - 1872) French aviator, who accomplished a glider flight in December 1856 in his Albatross glider'

Mechanical bird or ornithopter
5616603 Mechanical bird or ornithopter; (add.info.: Mechanical bird or ornithopter, driven by twisted rubber bands, by Alphonse Penaud (1850 - 1880)

Hiram Maxim's steam-powered plane
5616595 Hiram Maxim's steam-powered plane; (add.info.: Illustration depicting Hiram Maxim's steam-powered plane. Hiram Maxim (1840-1916) a British inventor. Dated 19th Century

First flight: two pilots in an American army reconnaissance aircraft. 1910
NWI4952698 First flight: two pilots in an American army reconnaissance aircraft. 1910. Colour lithograph reproducing an illustration by William Harnden Foster (1886-1941).; (add.info.: First flight)

First World War: Christmas Patriotic Map showing a child in a Bleriot plane thinking admiring over a dragon regiment
LUX4744256 First World War: Christmas Patriotic Map showing a child in a Bleriot plane thinking admiring over a dragon regiment

First World War: Patriotic Map showing an Alsatian and a Lorraine near the Lion of Belfort Watching French Aircraft
LUX4744690 First World War: Patriotic Map showing an Alsatian and a Lorraine near the Lion of Belfort Watching French Aircraft Approaching

France: Spad 13 single-engine biplane with officers on an airfield, 1917 - Spad biplane aircraft
LUX4769061 France: Spad 13 single-engine biplane with officers on an airfield, 1917 - Spad biplane aircraft; (add.info.: France: Spad 13 single-engine biplane with officers on an airfield)

Italy: AR-1 biplane uses for air views, on wings, cockades with Roman wolf, 1918 - AR-1 biplane: 1331
LUX4774168 Italy: AR-1 biplane uses for air views, on wings, cockades with Roman wolf, 1918 - AR-1 biplane: 1331; (add.info.: Italy: AR-1 biplane uses for air views, on wings)

First World War: France, Patriotic Map showing a soldier in an airplane flies with the French flag an Alsatian waiting
LUX4741049 First World War: France, Patriotic Map showing a soldier in an airplane flies with the French flag an Alsatian waiting for him with impatience

Cover of the book ABC of toys''. Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, Printers-Publishers, Tours, 1931 (engraving)
DUV4208300 Cover of the book ABC of toys''. Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, Printers-Publishers, Tours, 1931 (engraving) by Neziere

Letters A and B: ostrich, plane, ene, agent, automobile, bilboquet, balloon, ball, bicycle, beef, sheep, boat
DUV4208297 Letters A and B: ostrich, plane, ene, agent, automobile, bilboquet, balloon, ball, bicycle, beef, sheep, boat, 1931 (engraving) by Neziere

France, La Reunion, La Reunion: Fancy postcard showing a man flying a biplane, 1910
LUX4726334 France, La Reunion, La Reunion: Fancy postcard showing a man flying a biplane, 1910; (add.info.: France, La Reunion, La Reunion: Fancy postcard showing a man flying a biplane)

France: whimsical representation of a Bleriot with a child pilot, 1909
LUX4726510 France: whimsical representation of a Bleriot with a child pilot, 1909; (add.info.: France: whimsical representation of a Bleriot with a child pilot, 1909); Photo © Lux-in-Fine

France: whimsical representation of a Bleriot with a child pilot, 1909
LUX4726502 France: whimsical representation of a Bleriot with a child pilot, 1909; (add.info.: France: whimsical representation of a Bleriot with a child pilot, 1909); Photo © Lux-in-Fine

Couple poses in the replica of a Bleriot aircraft, 1910
LUX4727722 Couple poses in the replica of a Bleriot aircraft, 1910; (add.info.: Couple poses in the replica of a Bleriot aircraft, 1910); Photo © Lux-in-Fine

AMELIA EARHART, c1928 (photo)
GIA4716106 AMELIA EARHART, c1928 (photo); Private Collection; (add.info.: AMELIA EARHART (1897-1937). American aviator. Photographed c1928.); © Giancarlo Costa

Castle of Roses (province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain)
3499709 Castle of Roses (province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain); (add.info.: Castle of Roses (province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain). Plane of the castle and the citadel

La Crosse, Wis 1873
2903030 La Crosse, Wis 1873; (add.info.: La Crosse, Wis. 1873.); Buyenlarge Archive/UIG

Boston in 1889
2900969 Boston in 1889; (add.info.: Boston in 1889. - Birds Eye View.); Buyenlarge Archive/UIG

Brownsville, Bridgeport
2903131 Brownsville, Bridgeport; (add.info.: Brownsville, Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, 1883.); Buyenlarge Archive/UIG

City of Baltimore
2902998 City of Baltimore; (add.info.: City of Baltimore, Lithograph, 1880.); Buyenlarge Archive/UIG

First flight of Henri Farman (1908), c.1910 (chromo)
1790241 First flight of Henri Farman (1908), c.1910 (chromo); (add.info.: first flight of Henri Farman (1874-1958), pioneer of the aviation, from Bouy to Reims october 30, 1908

A bird's-eye-view of the city of Koblenz, 1860 (engraving)
1579506 A bird's-eye-view of the city of Koblenz, 1860 (engraving); (add.info.: Engraving depicting a bird's-eye-view of the city of Koblenz, Germany)

Dictionary: Anamorphosis, in Perspective and Painting (engraving)
8636638 Dictionary: Anamorphosis, in Perspective and Painting (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Anamorphosis, in Perspective and Painting)

Pioneers of Italian aviation: Greetings from Milan. This postcard attested that the imagination was beginning to be
5313743 Pioneers of Italian aviation: Greetings from Milan. This postcard attested that the imagination was beginning to be struck by the large number of aerial machines simultaneously in flight.;

Pioneers of Italian aviation: In Naples. in Ferrara. the airplanes fly so low that in the postcards of the time
5313736 Pioneers of Italian aviation: In Naples. in Ferrara. the airplanes fly so low that in the postcards of the time the background is always made up of the panorama of the cities.; SeM Studio/UIG

First World War: France, humorous postcard playing on the ambiguity of the word " falcon" showing a winning
LUX4736785 First World War: France, humorous postcard playing on the ambiguity of the word " falcon" showing a winning plane and a beaten eagle, 1914

Robert Hooke's proposal for an aerial telegraph (engraving)
5616548 Robert Hooke's proposal for an aerial telegraph (engraving); (add.info.: Illustration depicting Robert Hooke's proposal for an aerial telegraph)

An electrically driven ornithoper
5616667 An electrically driven ornithoper; (add.info.: Reuben Jasper Spalding's (1889) method of quick, direct transport; an electrically driven ornithoper. From Der Stein der Weisen, (ca 1895)

Futuristic drawing showing a hotel landing platform to board an air taxi
5616664 Futuristic drawing showing a hotel landing platform to board an air taxi; (add.info.: Futuristic drawing showing a hotel landing platform to board an air taxi)

Aerial Steamer of 1875
5616610 Aerial Steamer of 1875; (add.info.: Aerial Steamer of 1875, by Thomas William Moy (1823-1910) was an English engineer and patent agent. 01/01/1875); Universal History Archive/UIG

Tatin's mechanical bird
5616609 Tatin's mechanical bird:; (add.info.: Victor Tatin (1843 - 1913) was a French engineer who created an early airplane

Idea for air travel in America attributed to Thomas Edison, 1880 (engraving)
5616607 Idea for air travel in America attributed to Thomas Edison, 1880 (engraving); Universal History Archive/UIG

Idea for an air station, attributed to Thomas Edison, 1880 (engraving)
5616606 Idea for an air station, attributed to Thomas Edison, 1880 (engraving); Universal History Archive/UIG

Tatin's mechanical bird
5616605 Tatin's mechanical bird; (add.info.: Victor Tatin (1843 - 1913) was a French engineer who created an early airplane, the Aeroplane in 1879

Mechanical bird or ornithopter
5616604 Mechanical bird or ornithopter; (add.info.: Mechanical bird or ornithopter, driven by twisted rubber bands, by Alphonse Penaud (1850 - 1880)

Alphonse Penaud's airplane
5616601 Alphonse Penaud's airplane; (add.info.: Alphonse Penaud's airplane, driven by twisted rubber bands. Alphonse Penaud (1850-1880) a French aviation designer and engineer

Alphonse Penaud's model airplane driven by twisted rubber bands
5311854 Alphonse Penaud's model airplane driven by twisted rubber bands; (add.info.: Engraving depicting Alphonse Penaud's model airplane driven by twisted rubber bands)

Postcard, in Colors, circa 1915: Glory to our eternal France - War of 14 -18, Aviation, Patriotism
ICA4949286 Postcard, in Colors, circa 1915: Glory to our eternal France - War of 14 -18, Aviation, Patriotism, Oliteration - Marianne, Napoleon I; (add.info.: Postcard, in Colors)

Postcard, in Colours, 1914:1914 For the Law For Civilization - War of 14 -18, Aviation, Civilization
ICA4949267 Postcard, in Colours, 1914:1914 For the Law For Civilization - War of 14 -18, Aviation, Civilization, Patriotism - Marianne, Napoleon I; (add.info.: Postcard, in Colours)

France, Centre, Loir-et-Cher (41), Pontlevoy: the great maneuvers of the West, in the Tourangelle countryside
LUX4797677 France, Centre, Loir-et-Cher (41), Pontlevoy: the great maneuvers of the West, in the Tourangelle countryside, the crowd contemplates the Bleriot of Jacques de Sylvestre in breakdown

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