Blimp-Wellman air ship, Spitzbergen – 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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Blimp-Wellman air ship, Spitzbergen comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Blimp-Wellman air ship, Spitzbergen
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Walter Wellman's airship expeditions made Spitzbergen, the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic, their launching point. Wellman used the islands for his early-1900s attempts to reach the North Pole by air, and in 1910 he returned there with the airship *America* for a planned transatlantic crossing. The record gives no date, so the exact moment is uncertain, but the picture fits the Bain News Service's press photographs of the period. The title's word "blimp" is a loose label, since the craft was not a simple blimp, and that distinction matters when comparing it with later airships.
| 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 | 5,791 × 4,241 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4587 |
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