This subseries consists of plates removed from the copy of François-Louis Bruel, Histoire aéronautique par les monuments peints, sculptés, dessinés et gravés, des origines à 1830 (Paris, 1909), cataloged as Special Collections Aviation TL515.B832. The plates are arranged by number. Many are mounted on heavy card stock, and may have been used as exhibits in the aeronautical exhibition at the Claremont Colleges circa 1982. With four exceptions the plates reproduce documents from the years 1783 and 1785 relating in particular to the ascent of the Montgolfier balloon at Versailles, September 19, 1783; various ascents by Jean-Pierre Blanchard, including his crossing of the Channel with Dr. John Jeffries; the first balloon ascent at Strassbourg, March 1784; the fatal ascent by the abbé Miolan in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, in July 1784; the fatal accident to François Pilatre de Rozier and Romain as they attempted to cross the Channel from France to Britain in June 1785; and to Vincent Lombardi. Plate 140 (box 5, folder 18) reproduces a painting by Francesco Guardi of Count Francesco Zambeccari's ascent over the Giudecca canal, Venice, for which the drawing (possibly a forgery) in Subsubseries 1.2.2, box 1, folder 9, is a preparatory study. Events after 1798 documented are an equestion ascent by Pierre Testu-Brissy at Meudon, October 16, 1798; the coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, December 3, 1804; the ascent by James Sadler and Capt. Paget from the gardens of the mermaid Tavern, Hackney, August 12, 1811; and an 1830 engraving of "Ballon de Fête religieuse" at Frascati.