The Cambridge Antiquarian Society Glaisher Collection of aeronautical engravings and pictures

The collection is principally one created by James Glaisher and slightly augmented by his son, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher. It consists of a series of scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings on eighteenth and nineteenth century balloon ascents, loose newspaper cuttings on ballooning, nineteenth century journals and periodicals featuring articles on ballooning and aeronautical flights, scientific papers principally concerned with James Glaisher's experiments for the British Association for the Advancement of Science, nineteenth century posters featuring balloons, and hand-drawn illustrations of balloons.

The collection has been arranged into the following eight series:1. Scrapbooks2. Loose Cuttings (small)3. Loose Cuttings (large)4. Journals and Periodicals5. Scientific Papers6. Posters7. Illustrations8. Ephemera

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

On permanent deposit from the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, November 2006

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

It is understood that the collection (which originally included a number of lithographic prints) was deposited with the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher in 1928. The collection (minus the lithographic prints) was subsequently transferred from the Museum to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.