Panorama deParisEarly balloon design,flight in Europe

Early balloon design and flight in Europe
Title: Early balloon design and flight in Europe
Date Created/Published: 1784-1894, bulk 1850-1880.
Summary: 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.
Notes:
Digitized images of these items with associated descriptions display in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Includes works by various European artists and printmakers.
Formats include chromolithographs, drawings, engravings, etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts.
Items include French, Italian, and English captions.
Transfer; Aeronautics Division; ca. 1954.
Forms part of the Tissandier collection.
Subjects:
Paris (France)--History--Siege, 1870-1871.
Aeronautics--Europe--1780-1900.
Balloons (Aircraft)--European--1780-1900.
Airships--European--1780-1900.
Balloon ascensions--Europe--1780-1900.
Broadsides--1780-1900.
Chromolithographs--Color--1780-1900.
Design drawings--1780-1900.
Posters--1780-1900.
Prints--1780-1900.
Site plans--1780-1900.
Bookmark /2003653055/
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