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[Diagrammatic view of Wellman's airship] – Antique Photo Print

[Diagrammatic view of Wellman's airship], [ca. 1909] — historic photograph
[Diagrammatic view of Wellman's airship], [ca. 1909]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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.)

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This is a photograph of a drawing that lays out the design of Walter Wellman's airship, the craft he hoped would carry a crew over the North Pole. Wellman, a newspaper correspondent and polar explorer, built his airships in the early 1900s and tried to reach the pole from Spitsbergen. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the news photo archive whose pictures document much of the period's press coverage. The caption information is unverified, so the drawing's exact date and origin are uncertain.

Created / published[ca. 1909]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto of drawing. Photo by Bain. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item, with subsequent revisions. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 854 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117532

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