Manuscripts
Aeronaut autograph collection
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English admirals autograph collection
Manuscripts
Volume of bound autographs and correspondence by British admirals including Earl Richard Howe. Some letters have typescripts.
mssHM 60665
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Adrian H. Joline autograph collection
Manuscripts
Adrian H. Joline's three volume collection of items signed by U.S. Secretaries of War (from Henry Knox to Henry L. Stimson), Secretaries of State (from Thomas Jefferson to Elihu Root), and Speakers of the House of Representatives (from Frederick Muhlenberg to Joseph G. Cannon). Volumes contain 248 inlaid signed letters, documents, or individual signatures. Also present are portraits of cabinet members, representatives, and some spouses, and other illustrations--mostly engravings and also a few photographs, some of which are signed. Volumes were compiled in 1912. U.S. presidents in this collection include John Quincy Adams, James Buchanan, Ulysses S. Grant, James Madison, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk, William H. Taft, and Martin Van Buren; presidential items have been individually cataloged.
mssHM 4577-4803
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Correspondence Relating to the Poets' Tribute to Thomas Hardy
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence bound in one large volume relating to the tribute paid to Thomas Hardy on his 79th birthday by his fellow poets. There are many letters both by and addressed to Sidney Sassoon and also Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell. Sassoon organized the tribute and Cockerell helped to put together the volume of autograph poems contributed by various writers
mssHM 39033-39087
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Aerostat manuscript and drawing collection
Manuscripts
Bound volume containing manuscripts and drawings related to aeuronautics. Text on spine is in French and reads, "Méthode pour Diriger des Aérostats." Manuscripts possibly also in Dutch.
mssHM 14181
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[Collection of clippings, etc., relating to aviation : a scrapbook
Rare Books
This leather-bound volume contains nearly 140 pages with pasted items related to balloon flights, ascents, disasters, parachutes, etc. Materials include newspaper and magazine clippings, illustrations, prints, penciled copies of illustrations, printed advertisements, handbills, balloon ascension tickets, handwritten notes, and scraps of fabric from balloons and parachutes. Among the aeronauts represented in this collection are Stuart Amos Arnold, Barret, Jean Pierre Blanchard, Robert Cocking, S.D. Dean, Andre Jacques Garnerin, Elysa Garnerin, George Graham, Margaret Graham, Charles Green, John Hampton, Harris, Robert Holland, Vincenzo Lunardi, Joseph Montgolfier, Letitia Anne Sage, Eugene Robinson, James Sadler, and Van Amburgh.
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[Collection of clippings, etc., relating to aviation: a scrapbook.]
Visual Materials
This leather-bound volume contains nearly 140 pages with pasted items related to balloon flights, ascents, disasters, parachutes, etc. Materials include newspaper and magazine clippings, illustrations, prints, penciled copies of illustrations, printed advertisements, handbills, balloon ascension tickets, handwritten notes, and scraps of fabric from balloons and parachutes. Among the aeronauts represented in this collection are Stuart Amos Arnold, Barret, Jean Pierre Blanchard, Robert Cocking, S.D. Dean, Andre Jacques Garnerin, Elysa Garnerin, George Graham, Margaret Graham, Charles Green, John Hampton, Harris, Robert Holland, Vincenzo Lunardi, Joseph Montgolfier, Letitia Anne Sage, Eugene Robinson, James Sadler, and Van Amburgh.
RB 139413