Ascension du 26 septembre 1876. Albert Tissandier, betw. 1876 and 1880.
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Arrangement and Access
The Tissandier Collection is organized into groups (called LOTs) according to format or genre and subject. A catalog record summarizes the scope of each LOT. All drawings and prints as well as selected photographs have been digitized and cataloged individually. Variant views and clippings from books and newspapers (generally non-pictorial) are not comprehensively represented online.
A brief listing for each LOT appears below, with an indication of what has been digitized. Items that have not been digitized may be viewed by requesting the LOT in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room.
All items digitized
| LOT 13399 | Large prints and drawings documenting early balloon design and flight | [
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| LOT 13400 | Portrait prints of balloonists from the 18th and 19th century | [
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| LOT 13401 | Drawings of early balloon flight and aircraft design | [
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| LOT 13402 | Cartoons and humorous pictures about early balloon flight | [
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| LOT 13403 | Prints documenting the development of balloon flight | [
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| LOT 13404 | Prints of early balloon, parachute and aircraft designs | [
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| LOT 13405 | European prints of historic events and early balloon flight | [
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Selected items digitized
| LOT 6000 | Grand ballon captif a vapeur de Mr. Henry Giffard, 1878 (photo album) | [
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| LOT 6001 | Views of the Paris Exposition, 1889 (photos) | [
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| LOT 7569 | Le ballon captif, Panoramas de Paris (print) | [
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| LOT 7581 | Ballon dirigeable genre orthoptere de M. Le Compagnon ... (photos) | [
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| LOT 7582 | Aerial views of Rouen, France, and vicinity taken from a free balloon... 1880 (photos) | [
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| LOT 7583 | Aerial views of Paris, France, taken from a captive balloon ...1886 (photos) | [
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| LOT 7586 | Photographs of balloon ascensions and memorabilia | [
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| LOT 8174 | Portfolio of watercolors documenting an early Russian voyage to Japan | [
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| LOT 13416 | Pictorial Ephemera Related to Early Balloon Flight | [
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| LOT 13442 | Illustrated Broadside Announcements for Historic Balloon Ascensions | [
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| LOT 13517 | Text Broadsides for Historic Balloon Ascensions | [
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| LOT 13518 | Ephemera Related to Early Balloon and Airplane Flight | [
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