A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an engraving of the Persian King Kai Kawus, seated on a throne being pulled through the air by four eagles
- Date:
- 1882 - 1892
- Reference:
- CVS01/01/002
- Type:
- Photograph (Lantern Slide)
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This slide was used in Cecil Victor Shadbolt's lecture 'Balloons and Ballooning, Upward and Onward'
This is part of the Series: CVS01/01 Series of lantern slides; within the Collection: CVS01 Cecil Victor Shadbolt Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Creator of Archive: Shadbolt, Cecil Victor
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