Blimp, Zeppelin No. 3, in flight – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Blimp, Zeppelin No. 3, in flight in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Blimp, Zeppelin No. 3, in flight
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Captioned as Zeppelin No. 3, this 1907 glass negative shows an airship of the German design pioneered by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, whose rigid, gas-filled hulls set the pattern for long-distance air travel before the First World War. The title calls it a blimp, but a blimp is a non-rigid airship without an internal frame, so the label is loose, and the Bain News Service's caption data is itself unverified. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of New York news photographs from the early twentieth century, and it shows how novel lighter-than-air flight still seemed to American readers.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 4,228 × 5,829 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5433 |
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