{"id":1,"date":"2012-09-27T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T17:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-09-27T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T17:39:10","slug":"ballon-poste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/ballon-poste\/","title":{"rendered":"Via Hot Air Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a part-time employee at the Library, having briefly studied the Paris Commune (1871) some 10 years previously, in 2005 I was intrigued to find myself digitizing an original edition of Le Ballon Poste: Journal du Siege de Paris<\/em><\/a> (1870\u20131871) for the Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century<\/a> project. At the time, the newspaper was captured on the department’s Phase One PowerPhase FX+ scan-back system, with white paper placed underneath each page view, to enhance the legibility of print on the semi-transparent, very thin India paper.<\/p>\n

Shown here is a close-up of the address panel, which gives a better sense of the fragility and lightness of each issue, delivered via hot air balloon.
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\n(The French National Library now also hosts digital facsimiles of the newspaper issues<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The French balloons are featured in this print held in Brown University Library’s Anne S. K. Brown Military collection<\/a>, picturing a German soldier becoming distracted by a balloon overhead. The Brown University Library’s digital collections, culled from special collections, currently include over 100 items relating to the Franco-Prussian War<\/a>, the conflict immediately preceding the Commune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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