Poster, Advertising, Air Shows and Races, ZOOLOGISCHEN GARTEN
Zooligischen Garten, 21 June, 1896. Circus-like, color poster depicts woman (Kathchen Paulus) parachuting over a rural landscape in a sailor-suit outfit. Top left-hand side of poster, inset portrait of K. Paulus. She was an aeronaut famous for helping to invent a technique for folding a parachute so that it could be worn on one's back. In the top right-hand corner of the poster, a balloon floats above scene as does another parachute. Lithograph.
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Digitized by Garber Move Team
Date Created
08/23/2021
Source
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Keywords
Art; Aviation; Commercial
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