Fans to take along to your next sporting event. Better to make your own breeze with something prettier than one of their programs, the kind you get at the gate.

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Automobile race fan for Romano’s. Wooden sticks and guards with the paper leaf printed with a racing car. ca. 1920. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3918-automobile-race-fan-for-romano-s-circa-1910.html
Beach pleasures and sailing fan. Wooden sticks and guards, the printed paper leaf with a drawn view of the Eden-Casino in Trouville, France facing the beach, where onlookers enjoy the pleasures of the sea and sailboats. On the reverse is another advertisement for the Eden Casino, which hosts Folies-Bergère shows. Late 19th c. Inscribed Eventail Lemariey and Lithograher, F. Appel. Paris. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3913-beach-pleasures-and-sailing-late-19th-century-fan.html
Cycling in and around Paris hand-fan. Wooden sticks and guards, the paper leaf printed with a map of the Bois de Boulogne framed by views of Bagatelle and the Louvre On the reverse are two other maps showing the Paris area and a plan of the city. The guards are inscribed Bois de Boulogne Paris et des environs and Léon Pouillot Ft Eventail cycliste. ca. 1898. Léon Pouillot, maker. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3894-faire-du-velo-a-paris-et-ses-environs-eventail-cycliste-vers.html
Mercedes and the French Grand Prix motor race motif hand-fan. Wooden sticks and guards with the paper leaf printed with an automobile race design and inscribed  Mercédès 1908 Francolin. Gilet & Cie. Eventaillistes. Paris. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3919-mercedes-car-race-fan-from-1908.html
Sailing in Normandy hand-fan. Wooden sticks and guards with the skin painted with a coastline, perhaps Norman, at the end of the summer with a sailboat sailing in front of the pier. ca. 1880. Signed by the painter Georges Gassies. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fans-by-painter-artist/3923-sailing-in-normandy-fan-by-georges-gassies-circa-1880.html
Tennis and bicycling theme fan with tortoiseshell sticks and guards, the skin leaf painted in the motif of a castle park where a game of doubles tennis is being played, while a couple rides their bicycles. Signed and dated G. Gaston) de Lauverjat 25 mai 1897. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fan-leafs/3904-tennis-and-bicycle-fan-by-gaston-de-lauverjat-1897.html
Advertising fan for the Durand restaurant. Wooden sticks and guards, the leaf printed in the motif of an elegant Belle Epoque lady and her dog attending a speedboat race. Signed by George De Feure and published by Société Nouvelle d’Art et Décoration 104, boulevard de Clichy, Paris. ca. 1910. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3891-wate-sport-motorboats-fan-circa-1910.html

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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