| Author | Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
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| Title | The first air voyage in America; the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a fac simile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America, by Jean Pierre Blanchard.
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| Published | Philadelphia, The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1943.
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| Description | 60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm.
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| General Note | "The first air voyage in America" (p. [7]-60) was written by Carroll Frey for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, from whose present property the voyage was made.
"The original Journal copied is the one in the Ridgway Library of the Library Company of Philadelphia, except for the copy of the frontispiece engraving in the collection of the American Philosophical Society."--p. 59.
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| Subjects | Balloon ascensions.
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| Other Authors | Frey, Carroll, 1894-
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809. Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America.
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| LC Card Number | 43-2494 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: TL 630 B6 P43
mq142475: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 79515] |
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