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| Title: | Chanute, Octave. Balloons in the Recent War |
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| Dates: | circa 1899 |
| Manuscript Number: | Crerar Ms 166 |
| Size: | 14 p. (20 cm.) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Handwritten essay, on the use of hot-air balloons in the Spanish-American war (1898-1899). |
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When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Chanute, Octave, Balloons in the Recent War, Crerar Ms 166, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Holograph essay, on the use of hot-air balloons in the Spanish-American war (1898-1899). (note: ICJ identifies the title event as "the Civil War of 1861-1865," based upon reference in text to the "civil war." Additional references to Spanish involvement and also to events after 1895, link it to the later war.) Bound in gray buckram.
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Crerar Ms 166 |