Vauxhall, London, Nassau Balloon

Illustrated broadside announcements for historic balloon ascensions in Europe
Title: Illustrated broadside announcements for historic balloon ascensions in Europe
Date Created/Published: 1815-1885, bulk 1840-1878.
Summary: 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 pictures of airships, balloons, parachutes, and other aircraft designs.
Notes:
Digitized images of selected broadsides 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 various French and British publishers and printmakers.
Text in French or English; one in Portuguese.
Transfer; Aeronautics Division; ca. 1954.
Forms part of the Tissandier collection.
Subjects:
Aeronautics--Europe--1810-1890.
Balloons (Aircraft)--European--1810-1890.
Balloon ascensions--Europe--1810-1890.
Airships--European--1810-1890.
Parachutes--1810-1890.
Advertisements--1810-1890.
Broadsides--1810-1890.
Prints--1810-1890.
Bookmark /2003653064/
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