Italian poster shows two men in a captive balloon labeled "Italia"; the uniformed man sits on the hoop, and the other stands in the basket waving a cloth. TITLE: Ascensione del cave. Emile Julhes, capitano areonauta. Poster dates to between 1880 and 1890. Learn More
A humorous print from an Italian illustrated periodical shows frogs dressed in street clothes climbing out of a packing crate carrying New Year's greetings on strips of paper, while a well-dressed woman watches. In the background, more frogs ride in a tram, in a balloon, and on a train marked "1881," and others sit on top of Mt. Vesuvius and the pyramids in Egypt. Learn More