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Illustrated advertising envelope and letter promoting “Professor” Edward Rush’s balloon...

Illustrated advertising envelope and letter promoting “Professor” Edward Rush’s balloon “aeronauts and parachute artists.”

Clay Center, Kansas: 1898. Envelope or Cover. The envelope features an illustration of a man hanging by his feet from a parachute attached to an ascending hot air balloon. It is addressed to “Secy of Fair. McPherson, Kansas.” The letterhead contains illustrations of “The Balloon Ascending, Leaving the Balloon, Parachute..... More

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Satirical “Salt River” type handbill advertising a probably fictional “Freedom of...

Satirical “Salt River” type handbill advertising a probably fictional “Freedom of Speech,” anti-Lincoln, pro-McClellan campaign rally featuring a balloon ascension and speech by the exiled Ohio politician Clement Vallandigham

Unidentified: Unidentified, [1864]. Unbound. Unidentified place, publisher, and year, but probably somewhere in Ohio shortly after the Presidential election of 1864. The small broadside measures 6.5” x 9” and features a large image of a balloon ascension. The thin, fragile paper has been expertly backed with silk tissue. It is..... More

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