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Cecil Shadbolt (left) and 'Captain' William Dale (right) posed in the basket of a gas balloon. Shadbolt's camera can be seen, attached to the side of the basket

Date:
1882 - 1892
Location:
Greater London Authority
Reference:
CVS01/01/023
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative title slide for Cecil Victor Shadbolt's lecture 'Balloons and Ballooning, Upward and Onward'

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/001
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A crowd posed in front of a partially-inflated balloon. Cecil Shadbolt is pictured standing third from the right, wearing a bowler hat

Date:
1882 - 1892
Location:
Greater London Authority
Reference:
CVS01/01/019
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured slide showing Shadbolt's balloon 'Reliance', and a second balloon preparing to take off from the grounds of Alexandra Palace, with large crowds watching the event

Date:
1882 - 1885
Location:
Alexandra Palace, Haringey, Greater London Authority, N22
Reference:
CVS01/01/039
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured slide showing Shadbolt's balloon 'Reliance' taking off from the grounds of Alexandra Palace, with large crowds watching the event. A second balloon is preparing for launch

Date:
1882 - 1885
Location:
Alexandra Palace, Haringey, Greater London Authority, N22
Reference:
CVS01/01/041
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A partially-inflated balloon, with several boys and a policeman watching it rise. Cecil Shadbolt is pictured standing in the far left of the photograph, wearing a bowler hat

Date:
1882 - 1892
Location:
Greater London Authority
Reference:
CVS01/01/022
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A photographic copy of notes made by Cecil Shadbolt which describe his first balloon ascent from Alexandra Palace to Ilford, during which he took several photographs, including the earliest extant aerial photograph taken in the British Isles

Date:
29 May 1882
Reference:
CVS01/01/071
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of the Persian King Kai Kawus, seated on a throne being pulled through the air by four eagles

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/002
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of a man in a top hat and waistcoat holding a large pair of wings and flying above two alarmed figures, one of whom is holding a pitchfork

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/003
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide depicting an illustration from Francis Godwin’s ‘The Man in the Moone’, first published (posthumously) in 1638, in which a Spanish nobleman, Domingo Gonsales, is hoisted aloft by geese

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/005
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an illustration from Cyrano de Bergerac’s ‘Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon’, dating from 1657. The 'glasses of dew' around his waist allowed Cyrano to float upwards

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/006
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of a man flying using Besnier's Flying Machine of 1678

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/007
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of Laurent de Guzman's Flying Balloon from 1709

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/008
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of 'Lana's Aeronautic Machine' , a small flying boat held aloft by four small gas balloons, designed by Francesco Lana de Terzi in 1670

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/009
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of the 'Minerva' balloon, designed by Etienne-Gaspard Robert in 1804

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/012
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of an early frameless parachute, designed by Andre-Jacques Garnerin in 1797

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/013
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of French photographer Nadar’s balloon ‘Le Géant’, following a crash landing. Nadar was the first person to take a successful photograph from a balloon in 1858

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/014
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of four early designs for flying machines, including one parachute-type machine and others with paddles, in flight above a coastal scene

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/016
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of a flying machine designed by Gabrielle de la Londelle, which appeared in his book ‘Aviation, ou Navigation Aeriènne’ in 1863

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/017
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)

A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of a number of early designs for a flying machines, in flight above the coast

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/018
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)