Off to the air show. An afternoon at the Exhibitions aeronautique. Photographs of early 20th air ships of various types by Léon Gimpel.

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Exhibition aeronautique dans le Grand Palais à Paris. January 2, 1909 image. Paris, France. Léon Gimpel, photographer. Image source http://www.yellowkorner.com/en/p/grand-palais/767.html In the public domain because the photographer died over 70 years ago. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LeonGimpelGrandPalais.jpg though I found it here https://www.instagram.com/ad_magazine/p/DCGbKJ7sMsf/?hl=en
Léon Gimpel
Le Dirigeable Ville de Bruxelles en cours de gonflement à Issy-les-Moulineaux, 22 mai 1910. Léon Gimpel, photographer.
Collection SFP © SFP / DR. Fair use license. https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/whats-on/exhibitions/leon-gimpel-1873-1948-audacious-work-photographer
A color photo from 1909 showing the Zodiac III taking off. Attributed to Gimpel on a number of sites including by the auction house Catawiki. https://av8rblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/16/french-zodiac-type/

A link to many air show pictures from aviation shows held in Paris at around the same time.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/varese2002/albums/72157691276267544/with/15998263500

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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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