page_title: Poster artist
hierarchical_section_title: Poster artist
caption_attribution_description: Le Ballon, bulletin trimestriel de toutes les ascensions; 6me année Janvier, Février, Mars 1883. Un numéro: 75 centimes. Pour tous les états compris dans l'Union Générale des Postes. Rédaction et bureaux A. Brissonnet, Propriétaire Gérant, 127, Bd. Sébastopol, Paris. Advertising for the French aeronautical journal "Le Ballon" shows a balloon carrying two passengers flying in the clouds Chromolithograph by E. Pichot, imprimeur, Paris, 1883. From the Tissandier Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. More Tissandier Collection items | More advertising [PD] This picture is in the public domain.
context_page_description: Affichiste is the French word for a poster artist or poster designer, a graphic designer of posters.
context_section_description: Affichiste is the French word for a poster artist or poster designer, a graphic designer of posters.
caption: One of the first French posters for display on walls in large towns, c. 1883
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