Pictorial ephemera related to early balloon flight in Europe

Pictorial ephemera related to early balloon flight in Europe
Title: Pictorial ephemera related to early balloon flight in Europe
Date Created/Published: 1788-1870, bulk 1860-1880.
Summary: Pictorial ephemera from the 18th and 19th centuries, reflecting events in balloon flight. Items include collecting cards documenting the early history of ballooning; tickets to balloon ascensions; a song about balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard; notation for a country dance inspired by the landing of an unmanned balloon, The Globe, at Gonesse, France, 1783; advertisements for ballooning magazines; a menu for a dinner in honor of Gaston Tissandier; a French gameboard 'Une expédition aérienne' illustrated with balloons; watermarked stationary from Canson & Montgolfier papermakers, dated 1883.
Notes:
Digitized images of these items display with associated descriptions in the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Includes works by French and British publishers and printmakers.
Formats include color lithographs and chromolithographs, wood engravings, etchings, some letterpress works.
Items in French and English.
Transfer; Aeronautics Division; ca. 1954.
Forms part of the Tissandier collection.
Subjects:
Aeronautics--Europe--1780-1910.
Balloons (Aircraft)--European--1780-1910.
Balloon ascensions--Europe--1780-1910.
Engravings--1780-1910.
Ephemera--1780-1910.
Etchings--1780-1910.
Leaflets--1780-1910.
Lithographs--Color--1780-1910.
Bookmark /2003653063/
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