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Tissandier collection of aeronautical prints and drawings
- Title: Tissandier collection of aeronautical prints and drawings
- Other Title: Visual materials from the Tissandier collection
- Related Names:
Tissandier, Albert, 1839-1906 , collector
Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899 , collector
Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899. Collection on the history of aeronautics. - Date Created/Published: 1773-1910, bulk 1780-1890.
- Medium: ca. 975 items ; various sizes.
- Summary: Pictures documenting the early history of aeronautics, with emphasis on balloon flight. Subjects range from the first balloon ascent in 1783 through some late 19th century design concepts for heavier-than-air vehicles. Images depict balloons, airships, flying machines, portraits of famous balloonists, and ballooning events.
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on publication.
- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Arrangement: Organized by format and subject into groups with the call number prefix LOT. Each LOT is separately cataloged.
- Formats include: pictorial broadsides, drawings, ephemera, illustrations, photographs, posters, and prints along with some related textual documents in the form of text-only broadsides, clippings, and pamphlets.
- Collection materials are primarily from European sources. Almost 70 individual artists, publishers, and print makers are represented as well as many unidentified creators.
- Related materials (correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, etc.) from the collection can be found in the Manuscript Division. Books and other publications originating from the Tissandier's library are cataloged separately and housed in the Library's general collections and the Rare Book Division.
- Most of the materials are in French. The collection also includes items in English, with some Italian, German, Dutch, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish materials interspersed.
- Digitized images of most items in the collection along with associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
- Special collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980, no. 240
- The Library purchased the collection in 1930 from Maggs Brothers of London. The materials were originally assembled from various sources by brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier, French balloonists and aeronautical historians.
- Collection title devised by Library staff.
- Transfer; LC Aeronautics Division ; ca. 1954.
- A set of catalog records describing each item is available through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. See http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lcoa1.about
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Guide Records
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- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 975 items ; various sizes.
Rights assessment is your responsibility.
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- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 975 items ; various sizes.
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