Count Zeppelin – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Count Zeppelin. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The record credits this glass negative to the Bain News Service under the title Count Zeppelin, but the collection notes that the label is unverified, so the sitter is best read as the caption suggests. The name points to Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the German count whose rigid airships made him one of the best-known figures in early aviation after his first craft flew over Lake Constance in 1900. Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, supplied news pictures of public figures and events to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its plates reflect the wide public fascination with airships of that era.
| 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 four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,191 × 5,760 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-17328 |
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