A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of 'The Flying Man'; a figure wearing a large pair of wings with an umbrella above his head, stepping from a cliff
- Date:
- 1882 - 1892
- Reference:
- CVS01/01/004
- Type:
- Photograph (Lantern Slide)
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The image appeared in 'Wonderful Balloon Ascents' by Fulgence Marion, published in 1870. This slide was used in Cecil Victor Shadbolt's lecture 'Balloons and Ballooning, Upward and Onwards'
This is part of the Series: CVS01/01 Series of lantern slides; within the Collection: CVS01 Cecil Victor Shadbolt Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Creator of Archive: Shadbolt, Cecil Victor
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