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1re série 2e série

Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning and parachuting history


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N°. 7 – Traversée en ballon du Pas-de-Calais par Blanchard et Jefferies (1785)
Crossing of the Strait of Dover by Blanchard and Jefferies · Überquerung der Strasse von Dover durch Blanchard und Jefferies

Medium: 10 prints (ephemera) (1 sheet) : chromolithograph.
Created/published: Paris : Romanet & cie., imp. edit., [between 1890 and 1900]
Notes: sheet of 10 uncut cards, individually captioned and numbered; issued as "Collection 476," "1re série."; French captions on each card; Tissandier collection.
Exhibited: "The Dream of Flight" : American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003-04.

Call number: LOT 13416, no. 31 [P&P]; reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02562 (digital file from original print); card number: 2002717348. No known restrictions on publication.

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