A balloon piloted by Charles Green crash-lands on Pirbright Common, Surrey, in 1852. Coloured wood engraving.

Mr. W.H. Power's report to the Local Government Board on diphtheria in Pirbright, and on the influence of the school there in the behaviour of the disease / [W.H. Power].

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Mr. W.H. Power's report to the Local Government Board on diphtheria in Pirbright, and on the influence of the school there in the behaviour of the disease / [W.H. Power].

A balloon piloted by Charles Green crash-lands on Pirbright Common, Surrey, in 1852. Coloured wood engraving.