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Mr. Blanchard accompagné de Mr. Gefferies est parti ... entre Calais et Boulogne
Summary
Print shows Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jefferies arriving in Calais after crossing the English Channel in a hot air balloon.
Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings.
Dollfus 40; Gibbs-Smith B3; L&W 288; Miller 183; Romance of Ballooning 48; Sotheby 53c
Exhibited: "The Dream of Flight" : American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003-04.
Retro-Futurism and Vintage [Science] Fiction Images Collection Retrofuturism is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. If futurism is sometimes called a "science" bent on anticipating what will come, retrofuturism is the remembering of that anticipation.
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Date
1850 - 1950
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.
