Text broadsides for historic balloon ascensions in Europe

Text broadsides for historic balloon ascensions in Europe
Title: [Text broadsides for historic balloon ascensions in Europe]
Date Created/Published: 1800-1881.
Summary: 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 Eugenio Poitevin.
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
Title devised by Library staff.
Forms part of the Tissandier collection.
Includes works by various European publishers and printmakers.
Text in French, English, Italian.
Transfer; Aeronautics Division; ca. 1954.
Forms part of the Tissandier collection.
Subjects:
Aeronautics--Europe--1880-1890.
Balloon ascensions--Europe--1800-1890.
Balloons (Aircraft)--European--1800-1890.
Parachutes--1800-1890.
Broadsides--1800-1890.
Bookmark /2003653065/
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