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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 fac simile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America

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Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date of Publication
1943.
Call Number
533.6 B639
Responsibility
by Jean Pierre Blanchard.
Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Date of Publication
1943.
Physical Description
60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm.
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. 59.
Subjects
Balloon ascensions.
Additional Author
Frey, Carroll,
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
533.6 B639
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