Zeppelin Air Ship, blimp inside – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Zeppelin Air Ship, blimp inside. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Zeppelin Air Ship, blimp inside
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The record names a Zeppelin airship with a blimp shown inside, but its title comes from unverified Bain News Service data and no date is recorded, so the identification should be read as a starting point. George Grantham Bain's agency supplied newspapers with news photographs in New York from about 1900 into the 1920s, and this glass negative belongs to that archive of quickly captioned pictures. Rigid Zeppelins and smaller non-rigid blimps were both photographed widely in those decades, and the caption's pairing of the two terms may point to an interior or hangar scene, though the record does not confirm which.
| 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 one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,817 × 4,304 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3199 |
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