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San Marino, CA 91108
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The contents list for this series provides basic descriptions of the more than 400 loose and matted prints and ephemera contained in the collection and captures each item's call number, item title, and, when known, date, artists, printer credit lines, and acquisition information. This list provides a preliminary inventory, and artist and printer names have not been standardized. Within the item notes, item type is identified broadly and the majority of images are listed simply as prints (though specific items incorporate intaglio, planographic, and relief printing techniques and include wood engravings, woodcuts, etchings, engravings, mezzotints, aquatints, and lithographs) or broadsides (though specific items include small advertisements, handbills, programs, and leaflets). The items described in the contents list below are contained within the following call numbers: pri470 (Boxes 1-5), pri472 (Boxes 1-5), pri475 (Boxes 1-3), RB 3135, RB 3277, RB 4169, RB 4183, RB 4184, RB 4231, RB 10015 (Boxes 1-2), RB 72759-72762, RB 182143, RB 206395-206403, RB 240367, RB 646538, and RB 646539.
pri470, pri472, pri475, 10015, 139413, etc.
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This finding aid briefly describes the more than 600 prints and ephemera contained within the Huntington Library's Aeronautica collection. These materials date from 1762 to 1940 and document the early history of balloon flight primarily in France and England, as well as the use of aeronautical imagery in satirical, documentary, and decorative images. Items are housed either as loose and matted items in folders and boxes or pasted in one bound scrapbook. The images and texts within this collection include illustrations, diagrams, and descriptions of balloons and parachutes, balloon ascents, descents, and accidents; portraits of aeronauts; and political cartoons and fanciful or documentary pictures that incorporate depictions of balloons, airships, and flying machines. The collection features prints chronicling the progression of early aeronautical history from the first manned balloon ascent launched by French brothers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in 1783, to the well-publicized ascents of famed English balloonist Charles Green in the mid 1800s. While most materials concern the development of balloon flight, the collection also includes anomalous images of balloons such as in British satirical prints and in two 18th century Indian watercolors depicting scenes with demigods in flying machines (pri472 Box 1, Item No. 1, and pri475 Box 1, Item No. 1). The earliest dated image in the collection is a Scottish satirical print from 1762 depicting three men on a broom "Flying Machine" (RB 10015, Item No. 2:2), and the most recently issued item is a booklet of photostat facsimiles of trade cards held in the Bella C. Landauer Aeronautical Collection, copyrighted 1940 (RB 240367). Among the individual aeronauts, aviators, engineers, inventors, and scientists most frequently referenced and depicted in the collection are British aeronauts George Biggin, Robert Cocking (1776-1837), Charles Green (1785-1870), and James Sadler (1753-1828); Italian-English aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi (or Vincent Lunardi) (1759-1806); and French aeronauts François Arban (1815-1849), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809), Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles (1746-1823), Andre Jacques Garnerin (1769-1823), Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier (1756-1785), Joseph Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810), Anne-Jeane Robert (1758-1820), and Marie-Noel Robert (1760-1820). Item types consist primarily of prints, illustrations, and broadsides, but also include ephemera such as handbills, advertisements, original drawings and watercolors, invitations and tickets, handwritten notes, newspaper and magazine clippings, handwritten notes, scraps of fabric from balloons and parachutes, and sheet music. Languages represented include French, English, German, Dutch, and Latin. The materials were first described by the Huntington Library in paper-based box lists and catalog records beginning the 1930s and this finding aid builds off of the descriptions found therein. Two items listed in earlier box lists and included in this finding aid (pri 470 Box 4, Item No. 44a and pri472 Box 3 Item, No. 28) were identified as missing.
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Rare Books
This leather-bound volume contains nearly 140 pages with pasted items related to balloon flights, ascents, disasters, parachutes, etc. Materials include newspaper and magazine clippings, illustrations, prints, penciled copies of illustrations, printed advertisements, handbills, balloon ascension tickets, handwritten notes, and scraps of fabric from balloons and parachutes. Among the aeronauts represented in this collection are Stuart Amos Arnold, Barret, Jean Pierre Blanchard, Robert Cocking, S.D. Dean, Andre Jacques Garnerin, Elysa Garnerin, George Graham, Margaret Graham, Charles Green, John Hampton, Harris, Robert Holland, Vincenzo Lunardi, Joseph Montgolfier, Letitia Anne Sage, Eugene Robinson, James Sadler, and Van Amburgh.
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This leather-bound volume contains nearly 140 pages with pasted items related to balloon flights, ascents, disasters, parachutes, etc. Materials include newspaper and magazine clippings, illustrations, prints, penciled copies of illustrations, printed advertisements, handbills, balloon ascension tickets, handwritten notes, and scraps of fabric from balloons and parachutes. Among the aeronauts represented in this collection are Stuart Amos Arnold, Barret, Jean Pierre Blanchard, Robert Cocking, S.D. Dean, Andre Jacques Garnerin, Elysa Garnerin, George Graham, Margaret Graham, Charles Green, John Hampton, Harris, Robert Holland, Vincenzo Lunardi, Joseph Montgolfier, Letitia Anne Sage, Eugene Robinson, James Sadler, and Van Amburgh.
RB 139413
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[German print depicting Blanchard's 28th flight on November 12, 1787] Artist(s): G. Vogel. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1381.
pri472
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Manuscripts
Collection composed of research notes, articles and offprints, clinical notebooks, personal and work-related correspondence, Funk Foundation materials, and a few slides/photos. Includes drafts of Funks autobiography, and drafts of Benjamin Harrows published biography of Funk. Some of the earliest material in the collection dates from the beginning of his professional career in Paris (1904-1906), but the bulk focuses on his life and career in the United States from 1939-1967. Manuscript materials are in English, French, German and Polish and the collection of published professional literature mostly in offprints and reproductions contains works in English, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish. Topics include: cancer, diabetes, vitamins, ulcers and hormones.
mssFunk Collection
pri470, pri472, pri475, 10015, 139413, etc.