1889Paris
Paris from a balloon — Exposition Universelle
Alphonse Liébert, photographer. From a balloon above the Trocadéro.
True aerial photograph
1889·Paris
Paris from a balloon — Exposition Universelle
Alphonse Liébert, photographer. From a balloon above the Trocadéro.
True aerial photograph
What this plate shows
A balloon photograph of the 1889 Exposition: the Eiffel Tower, Champ de Mars, Seine, Pont d’Iéna. Twenty-one years after Nadar’s Étoile plate. True aerial, not a lithograph of the fair. Outside the 1870 ± 10 window — keep it in the aerial drawer, not in that compare.
- Image type
- True aerial photograph
- Source
- Library of Congress, Tissandier Collection, cph.3b40741.
- License
- Public domain (Liébert died 1913; published 1889).