Zeppelin III at Luneville – 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.)
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This historic photograph of Zeppelin III at Luneville brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Zeppelin III at Luneville
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Labeled Zeppelin III at Luneville, this glass negative shows a rigid airship, though the Bain News Service caption that supplies the title is unverified, so the location deserves some caution. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's rigid airships, built on metal frames around gas cells, were the most prominent large dirigibles in the years before World War I, and the German army took several into service for reconnaissance and training. The Bain collection, assembled by the New York news photographer George Grantham Bain, holds many such images from the 1910s, when airships drew wide press interest as both novelties and possible military tools.
| 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 three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,704 × 4,160 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-13474 |
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