TY  - GEN
AU  - Tissandier,Gaston
AU  - Tissandier,Albert
AU  - Tissandier,Paul
AU  - Dupuis-Delcourt
TI  - Tissandier collection on the history of aeronautics,
KW  - Andrée, Salomon August,
KW  - Arban, Francesco.
KW  - Blanchard, Jean-Pierre,
KW  - Chanute, Octave,
KW  - Charles, Jacques Alexandre César,
KW  - Conté, Nicolas-Jacques,
KW  - Faujas-de-St.-Fond,
KW  - Franklin, Benjamin,
KW  - Garnerin, André Jacques,
KW  - Giffard, Henri,
KW  - Green, Charles,
KW  - Holland, Robert,
KW  - Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent,
KW  - Lhoste, François,
KW  - Lunardi, Vincent,
KW  - Margat, Jean,
KW  - Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne,
KW  - Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel,
KW  - Pilâtre de Rozier, Jean-François,
KW  - Robertson, E. G.
KW  - Severo, Augusto,
KW  - Wright, Orville,
KW  - Wright, Wilbur,
KW  - Yon, Gabriel,
KW  - Zambeccari, Francesco,
KW  - Société Aéronautique et Météorologique de France
KW  - Aeronautics
KW  - Societies, etc
KW  - Air pilots
KW  - Airships
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - Balloonists
KW  - Balloons
KW  - Piloting
KW  - Flight
KW  - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Second Republic, 1848-1852
KW  - Second Empire, 1852-1870
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - Siege, 1870-1871
KW  - Aeronauts
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research; Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material
N2  - Correspondence, writings, printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, graphic material, memorabilia, and other papers collected by Gaston Tissandier and his brother Albert with additions by Gaston's son, Paul.  Also includes the collection of Dupuis-Delcourt, brought together prior to 1860, and later purchased by Gaston Tissandier.  Primarily files on pioneering aeronauts (air pilots) and airship builders from the first century of flight which pertain chiefly to balloon flights of the 18th and 19th centuries.  Subjects also include early heavier-than-air flight, the Société Aéronautique et Météorologique de France, the political climate in France during the Second Republic and the Second Empire, the Franco-Prussian War, and the siege of Paris.  Includes art work of Albert Tissandier, chiefly illustrations of Gaston's aeronautical projects.  Correspondents include Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier; Includes files on Salomon August Andrée, Francesco Arban, Jean Pierre Blanchard, Octave Chanute, Jacques Alexandre César Charles, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Barthélemy Faujas-de-St.-Fond, André Jacques Garnerin, Henri Giffard, Charles Green, Robert Holland, François Lhoste, Vincent Lunardi, Jean Margat, Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, E. G. Robertson, Augusto Severo, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Gabriel Yon, and Francesco Zambeccari
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006025
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006025.3
ER  -