About this image...

Image Title: Pennington & Cos. Aerial Steam Ship Or Composite Ballon, 1850

Creator: Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 1805-1886, printer

Date: 1850

Summary: Print shows an aerial steamship labeled "New Era" that has a chimney at top and a house-like building on the bottom. Includes a portrait of John H. Pennington with facsimile signature and a description of "Steam Aerial Navigation."

Notes: This version of the print has a hand-lettered "o" in the word "composite" and an altered spelling of cylinder where the original spelling as cillender appears as "cylender".

Subjects: Aeronautics--United States--1850
Aircraft--American--1850
Pennington, John H

Original Media: Lithograph

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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