Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingCirque dʹhiver ... Tous les soirs,Ă 8 heures 1 print (poster) : woodcut, color. | French circus poster shows an aerialist floating with arms outstretched above a city skyline with a balloon in the background.- Date: 1880-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingDetails dʹune soupape pour un ballon de 5 a 8,000 m. cubes 1 drawing on brown paper : ink, watercolor and graphite. | Scaled design drawing of balloon valve shows 9 captioned views of components and complete assembly. Includes identification key.- Contributor: Chavoutier, Charles
- Date: 1868-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingProjet dʹenceinte economique pour gonflement dʹaerostat disposĂ©e dans un parc ou jardin public 1 drawing : ink and watercolor. | Scaled design drawing of a circular enclosed area for inflating balloons featuring underground pipe lines. Includes site plan and section.- Contributor: Chavoutier, James
- Date: 1868
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Photo, Print, DrawingProjet d'appareil, pour Ă©valuer approximativement la force des helices, roues ailes applicables Ă la direction des a Ă©rostat 1 drawing : ink, graphite, and watercolor. | Design drawing shows a system for steering an airship using man power to operate propellers. Includes plan and sections.- Contributor: Vaussin-Chardanne
- Date: 1853-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingPlateforme aérienne, cerf-volant libre dirigeable, système Vaussin-Chardanne. Feuille no. 2 1 drawing : ink, graphite and watercolor. | Design drawing shows a system for powering an airship with manually operated propellers. Includes longitudinal views of dirigible platform assembly and identification key.- Contributor: Vaussin-Chardanne
- Date: 1853-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingPlateforme aérienne cerf-volant libre dirigeable, système Vaussin-Chardanne. Feiulle no. 1 1 drawing : ink, graphite and watercolor. | Scaled design drawing shows a system for navigating an airship using propellers. Includes plans of dirigible platform body and complete platform assembly, and identification key.- Contributor: Vaussin-Chardanne
- Date: 1853-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingAèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). moyens simples et peu couteuse pour faire descendre et remonter Ă volantĂ© un ballon dans lʹair sans pertĂ© le gaz et le leste / 1 drawing : ink, watercolor. | Patent design drawing for a system to regulate the altitude of a balloon while preserving gas and ballast. Features a cross section, scaled detail drawings of component parts and an identification key.- Contributor: Vaussin-Chardanne
- Date: 1853-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingListe de ballons sortis de Paris pendant le siège 1870-1871 1 print (broadside) : lithograph. | Broadside shows balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-71. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris with categories for balloon name, size, owner, balloonist, and number of pasengers and pigeons on board. Four illustrations show "Gonflement d'un ballon" (inflation of a balloon); "Descente au Montzid (Norwège)"; "Morte de Prince et LaCaze," (crash at sea); and "[A]grandissement…- Date: 1874-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingProjet dʹenceinte pour gonflement dʹaerostat 1 drawing : ink and watercolor. | Design drawing of a circular enclosed area for inflating balloons featuring underground pipe lines. Includes site plan and section.- Contributor: Chavoutier, James
- Date: 1868
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Photo, Print, DrawingProjet dʹenceinte pour gonflement dʹaerostat 1 drawing : ink and watercolor. | Design drawing of a circular enclosed area for inflating balloons featuring underground pipe lines. Includes site plan and section, with balloon tethered in position- Contributor: Chavoutier, James
- Date: 1868
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Photo, Print, DrawingAèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). Moyens simples et peu couteuse pour faire descendre et remonter Ă volantĂ© un ballon dans lʹair sans pertĂ© de gaz et de lest, sans craintĂ© l'accidents / 1 drawing : ink, watercolor. | Patent design drawing for a safe system to regulate the altitude of a balloon while preserving gas and ballast. Includes 9 detail views, cross section, elevation, and identification key.- Contributor: Vaussin-Chardanne
- Date: 1853-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingLe ballons sortis pendant le Siege de Paris, 1870-1871 1 print (broadside) : lithograph, partially hand-colored. | Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, keyed to a map of their descents. Several vignettes show balloons, including "le Richard Wallace" at battle sites. Illustrations at bottom depict "Morte de Prince et LaCaze" (crash of "Le Jaquart" at sea); "Agrandissement des dépèches microscopiques exécutées…- Date: 1870-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingLes ballons du Siège de Paris, septembre 1870 - fĂ©vrier 1871 1 print (broadside) : lithograph. | Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, with categories for name of balloon and balloonist, date and time of departure and arrival. Surrounding illustrations depict: "Transport d'un ballon captif de lʹArmĂ©e de la Loire" (a balloon descent in the coutryside); "A dessus de la mer! Voyage de…- Contributor: Tissandier, Albert
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingEden-concert, enl'vez l'ballon revue de m.m. Hermil & Numès, 17 boulevard Sébastopol, musique nouvelle de Tar-Caen / 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. | French circus poster shows two performers in the basket of an airship navigated by a rudder and a propeller. The basket bears the date 1884.- Date: 1884-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingDescente d'Absalon par Miss Stena 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. | Circus poster shows a group of aerialists performing. Two women are held aloft by a balloon attached to their hair. The portrait on the center balloon is possibly Miss Stena.- Date: 1880-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingChateau aérien. Ballon captif à cloisons étanches, système Tobiansky. Exposition universelle 1894. 1 photomechanical print (poster) : photolithograph, color. | Belgian poster shows an air station suspended by a captive balloon at the 1894 world's fair in Antwerp, Belgium. Advertises Alfred Tobiansky d'Altoff's patented device for moving passengers from a platform on the ground to the air station.- Date: 1894-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingPanorama de Paris. Vu de la nacelle du grand ballon captif Ă vapeur de la cour des Tuileries 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 81.8 x 63 cm (sheet) | French poster shows the basket of Henri Giffard's captive balloon and a bird's-eye view of Paris to advertise balloon ascensions at the 1878 world's fair.- Date: 1878-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingFolies-Bergère travail merveilleux sur le fil de fer par Fontaine 1 print (poster): lithograph, color. | French poster shows aerialist Fontaine, labeled one of "le héros du Niagara" in three views: a small bust portrait, roller skating on a high wire, and walking on stilts on a high wire suspended by a balloon.- Date: 1870-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMr. Blanchard, citoyen de Calais, pensionaire de S.M.T.C. et correspondent des plusieurs accademies [sic] 1 print : stipple engraving. | Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist, Jean-Pierre Blanchard.- Contributor: KĂ¼ffner, Abraham Wolfgang
- Date: 1780-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMr. Blanchard, citoyen de Calais et de plusieurs autres villes, par adoption pensionaire de S.M.T.C. et de plusieurs accademies [sic] 1 print : engraving. | Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist, Jean-Pierre Blanchard.- Contributor: Bock, C.W. (Christoph-Wilhem)
- Date: 1780-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMr. Blanchard, lʹarĂ©onaute 1 print : stipple engraving, red ink. | Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Includes image of Blanchard's balloon demonstrating his experiments with balloon navigation.- Contributor: Bolomey, Benjamin Samuel
- Date: 1780-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMadame Blanchard (Madeleine Sophie Armand) aéronaute née vers 1778 [death symbol] à Paris 6 juillet 1819 / 1 print : etching with stipple engraving. | Half-length portrait of French balloonist, Marie-Madeleine-Sophie Armand Blanchard.- Contributor: Porreau, Jules
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingM. Bureau de Pusy. Né a Port sur Saône en 17[...], député du Baille d'Amont en fche cté à l'assemblée nationale de 1789, nommé président le 2 fevrier 1790 1 print : engraving. | Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy.- Date: 1790-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingJean Louis Carra, né à Pont de Veyle le 11 mars 1742, député du Dépt. de Saône et Loire, à la Convention nationale de 1792 1 print : engraving. | Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of Jean-Louis Carra.- Date: 1792-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingCharles, (Jacques Alexandre César.) né Beaugency-sur-Loire, le 11 novembre 1746, élu en 1793 1 print : lithograph. | Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist Jacques Alexandre César Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783.- Date: 1820-01-01