Title: Henri Giffard papers
Description: Correspondence, notes, design drawings, broadsides, newspapers, printed illustrations, articles about Giffard, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating chiefly to Giffard's exhibition of a large captive balloon in the courtyard of the Tuileries in Paris in 1878.  Includes his design drawings for balloons and notes on hydrogen gas.
Subjects: Ballooning, Captive Balloons, Balloons, Hydrogen, Design and construction, Paraguayan fiction, History and criticism, Exiles' writings