A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of two men shooting at Jean-Pierre Blanchard's 'Vaisseau Volant' as it passes over France in 1784

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/011
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)
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Description

In 1785, Blanchard and American physician John Jeffries became the first balloonists to cross the English Channel. This slide was used in Cecil Victor Shadbolt's lecture 'Balloons and Ballooning, Upward and Onwards'

Content

This is part of the Series: CVS01/01 Series of lantern slides; within the Collection: CVS01 Cecil Victor Shadbolt Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Creator of Archive: Shadbolt, Cecil Victor