Hot air balloon prints, 1931
Permanent ID:
810Date:
1931Image Description:
This digital record contains images that depict four prints of early hot air balloons held together in folder 3, box 61 of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania prints collection. Folder 3 is labeled as, "Transportation - Balloons - First Air Voyage, First Balloon - J.P. Blanchard, P.T. Barnum, John Wise."Print one depicts a balloon ascending from Walnut St. Prison
Inscription:
News from the Clouds. / P.T. Barnum's / Great Roman Hippodrome / Philadelphia, / Experimental Series by / Prof. Donaldson (Print 4)