Library of Congress Open Archive Initiative Repository 1
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This is an extensive repository containing material relating to the American experience, a large portion of it digitised from the Library of Congress' collections. It includes, but is not limited to, images, monographs, sheet music, sound and visual recordings, pamphlets and posters. It is subdivided into over 100 thematic collections based on original documentation format, subject, author or donor. The site also benefits from an extensive range of background documentation and information on the creation, maintenance and development of this repository. Individual sections of the collection are periodically highlighted, and materials advising on the use of this repository's contents in a classroom situation are also provided. Each major subsection has a discrete site design and interface, although they are all part of the overarching whole.
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Franciscus-Josephus I. Pax, labor, progressus
Print for the Vienna world's fair shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, in uniform, surrounded by objects relating to creativity and the arts, technology, and industry including a train going over a bridge and a balloon in the background.
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A grand balloon ascent, Batty's, Thursday, July 1st, 1852 /
Poster shows three men and a woman holding flags while sitting in the basket of an ascending balloon labeled "Royal Hippodrom[e]" to advertise a public ascent at Batty's Grand National Hippodrome in London, England.
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Vauxhall. Mr. Green, Wednesday, July 31st
Poster shows balloonist Charles Green on horseback suspended from an ascending balloon to advertise balloon ascensions in Vauxhall Gardens, London.
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Liste de ballons sortis de Paris pendant le siège 1870-1871
Broadside shows balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-71. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris with categories for balloon name, size, owner, balloonist, and number of pasengers and pigeons on board. Four illustrations show "Gonflement d'un ballon" (inflation of a balloon); "Descente au Montzid (Norwège)"; "Morte de Prince et LaCaze," (crash at sea); and "[A]grandissement des dépèches microscopiques a Tours & a Bordeaux par Dagron & ses collègues" (lecture by photographer Dagron).
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Fearful balloon adventure-- saved by a Grimsby fishing smack A woman murdered by her son and daughter.
Front page of British illustrated newspaper shows two stories. Above, a man and woman (possibly balloonist Jules Duruof and his wife) cling to a balloon basket in a stormy sea, with rescue boat approaching. Below, five vignettes, each separately captioned, depict a mother's strangulation by her adult children.
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Auguri e felicitazioni
A humorous print from an Italian illustrated periodical shows frogs dressed in street clothes climbing out of a packing crate carrying New Year's greetings on strips of paper, while a well-dressed woman watches. In the background, more frogs ride in a tram, in a balloon, and on a train marked "1881," and others sit on top of Mt. Vesuvius and the pyramids in Egypt.
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Folies-Bergère travail merveilleux sur le fil de fer par Fontaine
French poster shows aerialist Fontaine, labeled one of "le héros du Niagara" in three views: a small bust portait, roller skating on a high wire, and walking on stilts on a high wire suspended by a balloon.
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