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Viewing 76 Child Records for Series: Series of lantern slides

A hand-coloured decorative title slide for Cecil Victor Shadbolt's lecture 'Balloons and Ballooning, Upward and Onward'

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/001
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of the Persian King Kai Kawus, seated on a throne being pulled through the air by four eagles

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/002
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of a man in a top hat and waistcoat holding a large pair of wings and flying above two alarmed figures, one of whom is holding a pitchfork

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/003
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

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)

A hand-coloured decorative slide depicting an illustration from Francis Godwin’s ‘The Man in the Moone’, first published (posthumously) in 1638, in which a Spanish nobleman, Domingo Gonsales, is hoisted aloft by geese

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/005
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an illustration from Cyrano de Bergerac’s ‘Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon’, dating from 1657. The 'glasses of dew' around his waist allowed Cyrano to float upwards

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/006
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of a man flying using Besnier's Flying Machine of 1678

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/007
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of Laurent de Guzman's Flying Balloon from 1709

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/008
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of 'Lana's Aeronautic Machine' , a small flying boat held aloft by four small gas balloons, designed by Francesco Lana de Terzi in 1670

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/009
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured slide showing an engraving of peasants attacking the world's first hydrogen balloon after its flight on 27th August 1783, when it landed in Gonesse, France

Date:
1882 - 1892
Location:
GONESSE
Reference:
CVS01/01/010
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

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)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of the 'Minerva' balloon, designed by Etienne-Gaspard Robert in 1804

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/012
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of an early frameless parachute, designed by Andre-Jacques Garnerin in 1797

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/013
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of French photographer Nadar’s balloon ‘Le Géant’, following a crash landing. Nadar was the first person to take a successful photograph from a balloon in 1858

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/014
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of a balloon ascending above a large crowd. There is a large, turreted building in the background

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/015
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of four early designs for flying machines, including one parachute-type machine and others with paddles, in flight above a coastal scene

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/016
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of a flying machine designed by Gabrielle de la Londelle, which appeared in his book ‘Aviation, ou Navigation Aeriènne’ in 1863

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/017
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of a number of early designs for a flying machines, in flight above the coast

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/018
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A crowd posed in front of a partially-inflated balloon. Cecil Shadbolt is pictured standing third from the right, wearing a bowler hat

Date:
1882 - 1892
Location:
Greater London Authority
Reference:
CVS01/01/019
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

An aerial view looking east across Catford, showing the construction of St Dunstan's College

Date:
1885 - 1887
Location:
St Dunstan's College, Catford, Lewisham, Greater London Authority, SE6
Reference:
CVS01/01/020
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)