Painted airship gondola with two passengers in flight – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Painted airship gondola with two passengers in flight in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Painted airship gondola with two passengers in flight
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Two passengers ride in an open painted gondola beneath an airship, a detail that sets this view apart from the balloon baskets more often seen on this board. Lighter-than-air craft of this kind carried people across the sky in the early twentieth century, when dirigibles were tested for passenger travel, sightseeing and military scouting. Gondolas were built to hold a few riders and the crew who flew the ship, so the figures here show how small and exposed a traveler was beneath the envelope. Notice the painted finish on the car, which was common on craft that wanted to stand out from the sky.
| Original scan | 3,010 × 4,238 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 13554 futuristic air travel |
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