A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of 'The Flying Man'; a figure wearing a large pair of wings with an umbrella above his head, stepping from a cliff

Date:: 1882 - 1892

Reference:: CVS01/01/004

Type:: Photograph (Lantern Slide)

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Description

The image appeared in 'Wonderful Balloon Ascents' by Fulgence Marion, published in 1870. This slide was used in Cecil Victor Shadbolt's lecture 'Balloons and Ballooning, Upward and Onwards'

Content

This is part of the Series: CVS01/01 Series of lantern slides; within the Collection: CVS01 Cecil Victor Shadbolt Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Creator of Archive: Shadbolt, Cecil Victor