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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, Drawing[Text broadsides for historic balloon ascensions in Europe] 22 broadsides. | French and British text-only broadsides announcing balloon ascensions (primarily from locations in Paris and London) by Hugh Bell, Charles Green, Richard Gypson, Jean Margat, Charles Mathews, and others; a lecture by Gaston Tissandier; exhibitions of parachute and balloon prototypes. Also, a list of ascensions completed by Jean-Pierre Blanchard from 1784 to 1805; one Italian handbill for an ascent by French balloonist...
- Date: 1800