Zeppelin airship in flight – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Zeppelin airship in flight comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Zeppelin airship in flight
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The record lists this glass negative as showing a Zeppelin airship in flight, dated July 3, 1908, though the title and date come from caption data the Bain News Service recorded and have not been independently verified. The rigid airships built under Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin were then drawing wide attention, and their long, cigar-shaped hulls were a novelty to newspaper readers. The Bain News Service, a wire photo agency in New York, supplied pictures like this one to papers that wanted images of current events, so the plate is a useful record of how the public first saw these machines.
| Created / published | July 3, 1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3373 |
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