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Charles A. A. Dellschau Dreams of Flying: The Amazing Story
of an Airship Club That Might Never Have Existed

by Rebecca Rosen

Secrets of the Sonora Aero Club A tale of UFOs,

art collectors and the shadows of history

by Cyhthia Greenwood

Steampunk Before Steampunk Existed: Charles Dellschau's Fantastic Airships

By Rebecca Onion

A critic’s guide to the satellite fairs: it has a pulse

Christian Viveros-Fauné

".... by far the fair’s biggest surprise arrives courtesy of the
private Brooklyn dealer Stephen Romano, whose stand not only
contains a large, two-sided Henry Darger drawing—it also hosts
six double-sided coloured pencil works by Charles A. A. Dellschau..."

by Allison Meier

".... Stephen Romano has concentrated on researching and
presenting the work of Charles A.A. Dellschau, a butcher
who drew imaginary airships as the self-appointed
head draftsman of the imaginary “Sonora Aero Club.”
I thought they were fascinating, ..."

Goodreads Voice: Charles A.A. Dellschau

Brightly colored balloons festoon the pages of Charles A.A. Dellschau's
ornate manuscripts —a hefty collection of thousands of drawings and press
clippings that herald the advent of flight and echo the ingenious imagination
of Leonardo da Vinci. The work of this iconoclastic Texan, a butcher by
trade who started his creative project in his retirement in 1899 and
continued until his death in 1923, is presented in the new book, 
Charles A.A. Dellschau.

From Homespun to Hallucinogenic in Two Fairs

by Ken Johnson, published January 24 2013

Fantastic and lonely Farfetched closes out NCSU's

current Gregg Museum building 

Seeking Sonora

The art of Charles Dellschau has been receiving some attention lately,
thanks to the recent publication of a book about his work. 

CHARLES DELLSCHAU

The Weird and Wonderful World of Charles A. A. Dellschau

Science Art: Plate 2527 Guarda (a mechanism for protecting airships), by Charles A.A. Dellschau, 1912.