Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
"Mr. Blanchard accompagné de Mr. Gefferies est parti de Douvres a 1 heure précise ...", January 7, 1785.
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6, Item: 1
Identifier: Subsubseries 1.2.2:
Scope and Contents
From the subsubseries:
This subsubseries includes prints (both original and reproduction), handbills, and plates from publications, and is arranged chronologically by the date of the event or (in the case of portraits) of publication.Eighteenth-century events represented include the first hydrogen balloon ascent, Champ de Mars, Paris, August 27, 1783; the first three human balloon ascents (by François Pilatre de Rosier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, from la Muette, November 21, 1783; by...
Dates:
January 7, 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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Prints and Drawings.
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Single Items.
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Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries make the first Channel crossing by air, from England to France.