See also film blog for poncy celebration of nuns without clothes.

30th July 2012

Photo reblogged from OBI Scrapbook Blog with 193 notes

oldbookillustrations: We saw Mr. Poitevin hoist up in the air, successively, two or three horses, a carriage, a gondola filled with fifteen people, and I don’t know what else… From Histoire des moyens de communication (History of the means of communication), by Edmond Audouit, Paris, 1851. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

We saw Mr. Poitevin hoist up in the air, successively, two or three horses, a carriage, a gondola filled with fifteen people, and I don’t know what else…

From Histoire des moyens de communication (History of the means of communication), by Edmond Audouit, Paris, 1851.

(Source: archive.org)

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