Massachusetts.—The Society for the Relief of Abused Children—Policemen Bringing Street Waifs to the "Home" in Boston, Illustration for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1881)
Albumen photographic copy of an illustration depicting the balloon Queen of the Air landing in water as sailboats close in. On July 4, 1861, Samuel Archer King's Queen of the Air balloon, piloted by Seth Simmons, Jr. and accompanied by E. B. Haskell, a...
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Collection Citation:
Evelyn Way Kendall Early Aviation and Balloon Collection, Acc. 2015.0053, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.