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TITLE: [Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1795 to 1846]
CALL NUMBER: LOT 13416, no. 30 [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02561 (digital file from original print)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
CONTENTS: No. 1. Le Commandant Coutelle au siège de Mayence (1795) -- No. 2. Les utopies de la navigation aérienne au siècle dernier -- No. 3. Sébastien Lenormand fait la 1re expérience du parachute, Montpellier (1783) -- No. 4. Descente de Jacques Garnerin en parachute (1797) -- No. 5. Gay-Lussac et Biot a 4,000 mètres de Hauteur (1804) -- No. 6. Le Ballon du couronnement de Napoléon -- No. 7. Mort de Mme. Blanchard (1819) -- No. 8. Zambeccari et ses deux compagnons dans L'Adriatique (1804) -- No. 9. Mort de Harris (1824) -- No. 10. Arban est recueilli par des pècheurs Italiens (1846).
MEDIUM: 10 prints (ephemera) (1 sheet) : chromolithograph.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: Paris : Romanet & cie., imp. edit., [between 1890 and 1900]
NOTES:
Title devised by Library staff.
Sheet of 10 uncut cards, individually captioned and numbered; issued as "Collection 476," "2ème série."
French captions on each card.
Tissandier collection.
Exhibited: "The Dream of Flight" : American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003-04.
SUBJECTS:
Balloons (Aircraft)--1790-1850.
Balloon ascensions--1790-1850.
Ballooning accidents--1790-1850.
Balloonists--1790-1850.
Parachuting--1790-1850.
FORMAT:
Collecting cards 1890-1900.
Chromolithographs Color 1890-1900.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original print) ppmsca 02561 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.02561
CONTROL #: 2002717347
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