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Title: Andree's flight into the unknown : November Century
Creator: Moores, A. J., artist
Century Company, publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1897
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of an advertisement for the Century Magazine November 1897 issue; Solomon August Andree and several other men check ropes for his hot air balloon expedition to take a hydrogen balloon straight over the North Pole; ship in background at left.
Date supplied by cataloger based on article publication date; Andree's flight into the unknown was published in the November 1897 issue of the Century. "A.J. Moores"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom left of image. "Beginning a new volume An Interview with the Sultan by Ex-Minister Terrell..."--text, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 49.53 x 36.83 cm (19 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ART_004660
502939
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5108
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Periodicals
Hot air balloons--Pictorial works
Men--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Book & magazine posters. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Artist Posters
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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