Flights of Fancy

One of my favorite ephemera blogs is Agence Eureka, which posts many many interesting and wonderful bits of paper fun: matchbook covers, storybooks, playing cards, and fabulous paper dolls and cut-and-assemble toys such as this awesome dirigible from the French broadsheets of Epinal. Unfortunately these treasures were not dated, so I can only assume based on the clothing of the women, this was printed around the turn of the century (maybe not strictly pre-1900, but too cool to pass up anyway).

To see this awesome piece (and several others) in more detail check out this page of Agence Eureka (you'll have to scroll down a wee bit).