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  • Men travelling in hot-air balloons by night. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Women are making the nets, baskets and balloons for hot-air balloons, they are being inspected by men in top hats. Wood engraving by WBM after W.I.P.S. (?).
  • Chinese people playing with hot air balloons. Brush drawing by Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Hot-air balloons with some extra equipment, and a winged horse with a rider. Engraving by Lodge.
  • A man flying above a church with wings and balloons attached to him. Coloured wood engraving, 1877.
  • A man flying above a church with wings and balloons attached to him. Coloured wood engraving, 1877.
  • Crowds of people gathered in a square, with hot-air balloons on the ground. Coloured wood engraving after Corbould, 1884.
  • Crowds gather at the parade ground of the Honourable Artillery Company in London to watch two hot-air balloons. Gouache.
  • International Airship Exhibition, Frankfurt, 1909: a Zeppelin airship, an aeroplane and two balloons airborne over the exhibition site. Process print.
  • A line of hot-air balloons loaded with boxes advertise "A. Stevens" as they travel over a line of sailing ships. Wood engraving.
  • Three balloons travel over a polar landscape: proposed method of reaching the North Pole by J.P. Cheyne. Coloured wood engraving by C. Roberts, 1877.
  • A flying boat devised by Franciscus Lana, with sails and balloons attached to it, and with three men as passengers. Engraving after J.C. Sturm, 1789.
  • Two balloons in the air over boats in the water to which lines are attached from an anchoring system on the sea bed. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Men and dogs in an arctic landscape with three hot-air balloons: proposed method of reaching the North Pole by J.P. Cheyne. Coloured wood engraving by C. Roberts.
  • A red balloon with a red label attached floats above a group of further balloons with the message in French: "Sponsor a balloon. Send a message"; an advertisement for a fundraising balloon event at Paris Champs de Mars on Saturday 28 October1995 to help combat AIDS by VLS (Vaincre le SIDA). Colour lithograph.
  • A man in shorts and safety helmet holds several balloons bearing the slogan 'Sydney Safe Sex Zone'; a message for the gay male community from the AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A crowd of people including men wearing t-shirts bearing the logo '10 Years On Keep It Up!', with balloons and statistics for AIDS in New Zealand in 1993; advertisement celebrating the 10th year of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • The yellow silhouettes of a man and woman holding on to a group of condoms blown up as balloons, one bearing the advert for 'Trust Bào Dàm an Toàn'; above a green world bearing the words 'HIV-AIDS'; a safe sex advertisement to prevent AIDS by V. Thuyêt. Colour lithograph ca. 1996.
  • A child's drawing of a smiling figure wearing a hat and appearing to hold numerous balloons beneath a personified sun and grass littered with red flowers; an illustration by Vasna [?] representing an advertisement for an information helpline for children with HIV by Poenki vzw - Positief en Kind [[HIV] Positive and Child]. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A man holding a bunch of condoms as balloons as another man with a heart above his head does a double take at a glamorous woman passing by above; with diagrams on how AIDS is not contracted along the bottom; an advertisement for safe sex by the OFfice of Federal Health and Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Birez [?].
  • A man in red pvc standing vertically with his arms by his sides representing an ejaculating penis with two balloons as scrotums at his feet; surrounded in a purple silhouette in the shape of a condom against a blue background; with the message in Swedish, condoms are everywhere; a safe sex advertisement by the RFSL/RFSU and Malmöhus County Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A man in red pvc standing vertically with his arms by his sides representing an ejaculating penis with two balloons as scrotums at his feet; surrounded in a blue silhouette in the shape of a condom against a lime green background; with the message in Swedish, condoms are the way in; a safe sex advertisement by the RFSL/RFSU and Malmöhus County Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A man in red pvc standing vertically with his arms by his sides representing an ejaculating penis with two balloons as scrotums at his feet; surrounded in a blue silhouette in the shape of a condom against a yellow background; with a warning in Swedish to always use a condom; a safe sex advertisement by the RFSL/RFSU and Malmöhus County Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Signed ticket for Blanchard Balloon Ascent 1784.
  • Contemporary engraving of Blanchard's Balloon Ascent 1784.
  • Men filling a balloon with hydrogen. Coloured etching.
  • Paris seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph, 1846, by J. Arnout.
  • A balloon race from London to Hampshire, 1880. Coloured wood engraving, 1880.
  • Orléans seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.