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The Balloon

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URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/193353
Date
1849-1859
Description
Pages from two children's magazines with stories about balloons. Includes the last four pages of the story "The Balloon" with a dialogue between a father and son about the history and science of aeronautics, and four pages with a story titled "The Balloon" with similar dialogue. Handwritten at the top of page 213 is "Glasgow Infant-School Magazine- 1854."
 
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Subject
Children's literature, Balloons -- History, Ballooning, Science -- Study and teaching, Glasgow Infant School Magazine
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No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/
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