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Item No. 57. The first air voyage in America : Woodcut by Charles R. Gardner …

Description: [print; woodcut image of the 1793 balloon flight of Jean Pierre Blanchard from the Walnut Street Prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; previously identified as PSS 433] Artist(s): Charles R. Gardner. Printer /Publisher text: "Woodcut copyright, 1931, The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company"
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Date: 1931.
Call number: pri472

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[print; portrait of French aeronaut and parachute inventor Jean Pierre Francois Blanchard (1753-1809)] Artist(s): R. Livesay; J. Newton. Printer /Publisher text: "March 24, 1785 Pubd. For the Proprietor, by S. Hooper, No. 212, High-Holborn, London." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1321.
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