In the early 20th century, backdrop photography was characterized by the use of hand-painted backdrops in studio portraits. These backdrops featured scenes such as landscapes, elegant interiors, and urban settings, enhancing the overall aesthetic and providing context for the subjects.
Here below is a funny photo collection from
Wolfgang Wiggers that shows people posing with prop balloons and airplanes with fake backdrops in the early 20th century.
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| Airplane prop |
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| A holiday trip |
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| A journey above the clouds, 1912 |
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| Above the clouds, Baden, Austria, 1910 |
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| Above the Rhine |
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| An insecure construction |
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| Bremen I |
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| Dogfight |
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| Escape from Bitsch |
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| Escape from Jüterbog. Jüterbog in north-eastern Germany (Brandenburg) was a garrison town of the Prussian Army |
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| Escape from Munsterlager (Munster Training Area) on the Lüneburg Heath, Germany, 1926 |
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| Escape from Munsterlager, 1912 |
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| Fake airplane in Munsterlager |
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| Flying High In Sioux City, Iowa |
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| Getting out of Munster, 1914 |
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| Going home, WWI |
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| Just like the Red Baron |
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| Military training area, Döberitz, WWI |
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| Military Zep-Train |
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| On the Rhine, 1937 |
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| Over the military training area |
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| Overloaded. The landscape in the background is the Rhine Valley at Königswinter with the castle Drachenfels and Schloss Drachenburg high over the river in Germany |
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| Paper plane |
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| Pentecost in Oberhofen |
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| Proving ground, Doernitz |
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| Some WWI soldiers on their way home |
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| Sturmvogel, before 1912 |
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| The inscription on the plane "Repülj Fecském" (Flight of the Swallow) refers to an Operetta song, Hungary, 1936 |
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| The sign reads "Escape from Munster to America", Whitsun 1914 |
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| The two signs read "A sunday without money" and "Escape from the sand-desert Neuhammer", December 27, 1914 |
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| World's Fair 1913, London |
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| Zeppelin, 1912 |
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