Box 5
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Plate 107 - "Vue de la Garenne du Roy à Vimereux, a cinq quart de lieue de Boulogne sur Mer", the fatal accident to Pilatre de Rozier and Romain as they attempt to cross the Channel from France to Britain in an experimental balloon., June 15, 1785.
Item — Box: 5, Item: 12
Identifier: Subseries 1.4:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
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...
Dates:
June 15, 1785.
Found in:
01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library
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James Carruthers Memorial Aviation Collection of the Institute of Aeronautical History
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Watercolors, Prints and Drawings.
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Plates removed from François-Louis Bruel, <title render="italic">Histoire aéronautique</title> (Paris, 1909).