Early Ballooning Prints
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Unknown
- Dates:
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1769-1918
bulk 1869-1875
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 slim legal box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0137
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Early Ballooning Prints collection contains .25 cubic feet of material related to early ballooning history.
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- Dates:
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1783
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet (One folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0823
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
A printed leaflet, dated 1783, calling for a public subscription to raise money for a group of scientists, headed by a Monsieur Housz, engineer, to build and launch a passenger-carrying balloon.
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Wise, John, 1808-1879
- Dates:
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1850-1870
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0.35 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2001.0002
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The John and Charles Wise Ballooning Collection contains material related to American ballooning pioneer John Wise (1808-1870) and his son Charles.
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- Dates:
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1857
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 quarter-plate ambrotype)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0617
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This quarter-plate ambrotype made by an unknown photographer shows the balloon ascension by John Steiner at Erie, Pennsylvania, on June 18, 1857.
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Krainik, Cliff
- Dates:
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1859-1934
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3.19 Cubic feet (2 shoeboxes; 3 flatboxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1990.0009
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This 19th and 20th century ballooning memorabilia collection contains the following items, which have been meticulously inventoried: 112 stereoscopic photographs; 107 photographs; 84 postcards, trade cards, valentines, and similar items; 80 prints; and 23 miscellaneous items.
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Naudet, Georges, 1900-1983.
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[ca 1600s-1930s]
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1.09 Cubic feet ((1 records center box) (1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0479
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes early ballooning material as well as photographs of early 20th century French pilots. The ballooning material includes material from Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Joseph Montgolfier and Eugene and Louis Godard. The early photographs include the following aviators: Louis Blériot, and Jules Védrines. The following types of material ...
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Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906
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1891-1914
bulk 1891-1900
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24.28 Cubic feet (64 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0494
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes information about Samuel P. Langley and his colleagues, as well as documentation of Langley's work. The collection includes biographies of Langley and his assistant Charles Manly, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscripts regarding Langley's aircraft, photographs and drawings, work requisitions for the Aerodromes, a sketchbook, specifications and measurements for Langley's experiments, the Langley Memoirs on Mechanical Flight and the Langley "Waste Books."
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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circa 1800-1980
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32 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S01
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 1: Transportation contains circa 3,900 pieces of sheet music documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards transportation technology in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
- Dates:
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1847-1975
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251 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S04
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 4: Songwriters: A "songwriter" for this series is defined as a composer, a lyricist, or both. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.
- Dates:
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Ongoing
- Size:
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33 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1183.Y
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Technical Reference Files comprise an artificial collection that currently contains 1,900 cubic feet of aviation and space related materials, organized in 22 subject series. File materials include photographs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, reports, and brochures, on individuals, organizations, events, and objects.
