Zeppelin Passenger airplane – Vintage Print
(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
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Zeppelin Passenger airplane. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Zeppelin Passenger airplane
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Captioned as a passenger airplane, this glass negative more likely shows a Zeppelin, the rigid airship developed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's German company, though the title comes from unverified caption data. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that distributed news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, would have supplied images like this to editors eager to show new technology. Passenger Zeppelins flew commercial routes in Germany before World War I, drawing crowds wherever they landed. The undated plate gives no firm date, so the exact occasion remains unknown.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,848 × 4,253 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-9617 |
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