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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Aérostat électrique a hélice conduit dans les airs - Tissandier, Albert, 1839-1906, designer.; Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, designer.
Design drawings show several views of an electric powered airship designed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier, which made an ascension October 8, 1883 from Auteil, France. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82).
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[Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1795 to 1846]
No. 1. Le Commandant Coutelle au siège de Mayence (1795) -- No. 2. Les utopies de la navigation aérienne au siècle dernier -- No. 3. Sébastien Lenormand fait la 1re expérience du parachute, Montpellier (1783) -- No. 4. Descente de Jacques Garnerin en parachute (1797) -- No. 5. Gay-Lussac et Biot a 4,000 mètres de Hauteur (1804) -- No. 6. Le Ballon du couronnement de Napoléon -- No. 7. Mort de Mme. Blanchard (1819) -- No. 8. Zambeccari et ses deux compagnons dans L'Adriatique (1804) -- No. 9. Mort de Harris (1824) -- No. 10. Arban est recueilli par des...
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[Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1783 to 1883]
No. 1. Les frères Montgolfier ... (1883) -- No. 2. 1re expérience aerostatique a Annonay (1783) -- No. 3. Charles lance ... à Paris le premier aérostat (1783) -- No. 4. Premier voyage aérien ... Pilâtre de Rozier et d'Arlandes (1783) -- No. 5. Premier voyage aérien ... par Charles et Robert (1783) -- No. 6. 1er essai de direction de ballons ...(1784 Guyton de Morveau) -- No. 7. Traversée en balon du Pas-de-Calais par Blanchard et Jefferies (1785) -- No. 8. Mort de Pilâtre de Rozier et de Romain (1785) -- No. 9. Les Aérostiers de la première République...
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Le ballon rédaction et bureaux A. Brissonnet ... Paris.
Clipping from an unknown book or magazine advertises the French aeronautical journal "Le ballon" and illustrates various means of flight including an ornithopter, early balloons and an airship.
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[Apotheosis of Montgolfier]
Allegorical print shows the elevation of the Montgolfier brothers, French balloonists, to divine status. A man (possibly Etienne Montgolfier) sits on top of a Montgolfier balloon while ascending into the clouds while holding a portrait of Joseph Montgolfier. Surrounding figures include an angel, the gods Neptune and Mars, and people preparing a sacrifice.
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[M. Eiffel, our artist's latest tour de force, June 29, 1889] - Sambourne, Linley, 1844-1910, artist.
Caricature of Gustav Eiffel in the form of the Eiffel Tower, which he built for the Exposition universelle in Paris in 1889. A balloon is in the background. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82).