R-34 – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures R-34 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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R-34
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Titled simply "R-34," this glass negative most likely shows the British rigid airship R34, which in July 1919 became the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic from east to west, ending at Mineola on Long Island after a flight from Scotland. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified agency data, so the link is a reasonable reading rather than a confirmed one. The Bain News Service was a working press agency in New York at the time, and the airship's arrival drew wide newspaper attention as one of the postwar era's major aviation stories.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,885 × 3,259 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-30320 |
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