Postcard promoting the New England Balloon & Airship Company of Weehawken, NJ and the aerial derring do of Arthur W Marsh and Arthur J Lapham. Postmarked 1911
This highly illustrated article appeared in the Scientific American issue of September 5, 1891 during the first season of the Eldorado Amusement Park, and describes in great detail, the complicated techniques to get the balloons aloft and the sometimes perilous outcomes.