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The first air voyage in America; the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a facsimile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America, by Jean Pierre Blanchard

Catalog Data

Author:
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company  Search this
Frey, Carroll b. 1894  Search this
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre 1753-1809 Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America  Search this
Physical description:
60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1943
Notes:
"The first air voyage in America" (p. [7]-60) was written by Carroll Frey for the Penn mutual life insurance company, from whose present property the voyage was made.
"The original Journal copied is the one in the Ridgway library of the Library company of Philadelphia, except for the copy of the frontispiece engraving in the collection of the American philosophical society."- p. 50.
Topic:
Balloon ascensions  Search this
Call number:
TL620.B6 P43X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_66590