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CollectionFrench political cartoon filing series (Library of Congress) Catalog Record Only 364 prints : chiefly color ; sheets 54 x 78 cm. or smaller. | Primarily caricatures and satirical images depicting events of the French Revolution and of French history from pre-revolution through the Franco-Prussian War, including the Restoration, July Revolution, and the Second Empire; with scenes mocking the royal family, other political figures and rulers, and religion. Portrayed are Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Napoleon I,...
- Date: 1700
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CollectionTissandier collection of aeronautical prints and drawings
Visual materials from the Tissandier collection Catalog Record Only ca. 975 items ; various sizes. | 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.- Contributor: Tissandier, Gaston,. Collection on the History of Aeronautics - Tissandier, Albert - Tissandier, Gaston
- Date: 1773
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Photo, Print, DrawingCi-gît sa chambre 1 print. | Cartoon shows a large man wearing a fez who is crying while leaning against a tombstone.
- Contributor: Cem, Cemil
- Date: 1912-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingHistoire de la Sainte Russie 1 print. | Page with 3 illustrations showing darkness, sketchy lines representing the beginning of Russian history, and polar bears illustrating that nothing of interest was occurring at that time; also includes quotes by Horace, Rabelais, and Confucius.
- Contributor: Doré, Gustave
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingHistoire de la Sainte Russie 1 print. | Page with 5 illustrations showing Péroun and priests.
- Contributor: Doré, Gustave
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Title page of "Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873" with title in Ottoman Turkish and French surrounded by vegetal designs] 1 print.
- Contributor: Launay, Marie De - Osman Hamdi Bey
- Date: 1873-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingSpratt's Patent Ltd. Les meilleures nourritures pour chiens, gibiers et volailles 1 print. | Reproduction of poster for animal food, showing a woman with a rooster on her shoulder, and holding up a dog biscuit for three dogs.
- Contributor: Roubille, Auguste
- Date: 1913-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingAuguste et Livie Camee d'Apollonius de Sicyone. 1 print : engraving and etching ; 222 x 134 mm. | Print shows a woman and man engaged in sexual intercourse.
- Date: 1785-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingCaligula au milieu de deux jeunes gens, pendant que ses amis sont a table avec des matrones Medaille. 1 print : engraving and etching ; 222 x 134 mm. | Print shows men and women engaged in sexual intercourse.
- Date: 1785-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingSujet inconnu Gravé sur une Cornaline. 1 print : engraving and etching ; 222 x 134 mm. | Print shows a woman and man engaged in sexual intercourse.
- Date: 1785-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingBarriere des Champs Elisées 1 print. | Reproduction of original color aquatint, showing people drinking and dancing as they approach the Champs-Elysées for Premier May celebration.
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingSerment fédératif du 14 Juillet 1790 1 print. | Reproduction of original color aquatint, showing Major General de la Fayette addressing a large crowd.
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingArestation du roi et de sa famille à Varenne le 22 Juin 1791 1 print. | Reproduction of original two sheet woodcut, showing the carriage of Louis XVI surrounded by armed men.
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingLe peuple franc̜ais reconnaît l'être suprème et l'immortalité de l'âme 1 print. | Reproduction of original etching, featuring text, with a family and objects associated with country life below a radiant sun.
- Date: 1921-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMiscellaneous French satirical prints Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available 99 items. | Prints are French social and political satire and caricatures, primarily from mid-19th century periodicals, including L'Eclipse, Journal Amusant, Le Charivari, Le Grelot, and L'Assiete au Berre. Although many of the prints have been removed from periodicals, some of the periodicals are intact.
- Contributor: Bendiner, Alfred - Stop - Grandville, J. J. - Gill, André - Hadol, Paul - Lepetit, Alfred - Daumier, Honoré
- Date: 1800-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingEarly balloon design and flight in Europe 31 items : b&w and color ; 92 x 117 cm. (36.5 x 46 in.) or smaller. | British, French, and Italian prints and drawings show balloon and airship designs; patents; three site plans for balloon inflation stations; balloons in flight. Also, poster and broadside advertisements for balloon ascensions and other events, including balloon departures during the Siege of Paris, 1870-71.
- Date: 1784
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Photo, Print, DrawingIllustrated broadside announcements for historic balloon ascensions in Europe 36 prints ; 59 x 60 cm. or smaller. | French and British illustrated broadsides announcing balloon ascensions by Henri Giffard, Eugène Godard, Charles Green, Richard Gypson, John Hampton, and Eugène Robertson; notices for parachute jumps by Elisa Garnerin. Also, conferences and exhibitions about new airship designs by Camille Dupuy, Ernest Petin, Henri Giffard, and others; advertisements for balloon and toy merchants. Broadsides show...
- Date: 1815
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Photo, Print, DrawingGrand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries 1 print (broadside) : hand-colored. | Broadside announcing the ascension of Henri Giffard's giant captive balloon from the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris, probably during the Paris Exposition of 1878. Includes picture of the giant balloon stationed in the center of the courtyard next to a smaller balloon.
- Date: 1878-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingGrand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries, Paris, 1878 1 print (broadside) on blue paper. | Broadside announcing the ascension of Henri Giffard's giant captive balloon from the courtyard of the Tuileries during the Paris Exposition of 1878. Includes picture of the giant balloon stationed at the center of the courtyard next to a smaller balloon.
- Date: 1878-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingLe grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries (1879), M. Henry Giffard, ingénieur-constructeur 1 print (broadside). | Broadside announcing the ascension of Henri Giffard's captive balloon in the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris. Includes picture of the giant balloon with passengers in the basket.
- Date: 1879-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingVille de Bruxelles, Parc Léopold ... dimanche 11 octobre 1885, de 2 à 4 hres. de l'après-midi. Grande fête aérostatique populaire ... 1 print (broadside) on orange paper. | Broadside announcing balloon ascensions conducted by Eugene Godard in his balloon "Royal-St. Marceau" from the Parc Léopold, Brussels, Belgium, 1885. Includes picture of a balloon with six passengers.
- Date: 1885-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingVient de paraitre, les grandes ascensions maritimes par Wilfrid de Fonvielle, en vente ici 1 print (advertisement). | Advertisement for a book on balloon ascensions written by Wilfrid de Fonvielle and published in 1882 by Auguste Ghio, Paris. Includes picture of a man pulling on a rope attached to a balloon with a passenger in the basket.
- Date: 1882-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingNavigation aérienne, système de M. Henri Giffard 1 print (broadside). | Broadside announcing Henri Giffard's first steam powered airship design in 1852. Includes a technical drawing of his design.
- Date: 1852-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingAmuser et instruire - Nouveaux jouets aériens et autres X. Vert, mécanicien, 4 quai de Jemmapes, Paris. 1 print (advertisement). | Advertisement for toy airships and other mechanical flying toys in the shape of fish, bats, or insects. Also advertises an Easter egg with angel (fig. 10), a steam boat (fig. 11), and a hydrogen gas generator (fig. 12).
- Date: 1850-01-01