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Detroit Cleveland airship – Historic Reproduction

Detroit Cleveland airship, n/a — historic photograph
Detroit Cleveland airship, n/a. Historic photograph from the Detroit collection.

(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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A window into the past: Detroit Cleveland airship, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Detroit Cleveland airship

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This glass negative records an airship connected with Detroit and Cleveland, though the title comes from unverified notes the Bain News Service wrote on the negative or its caption card, and no date is given. The Bain agency supplied news photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century and documented many aerial novelties of that era, when airships still drew large crowds. Lighter-than-air craft of the 1900s and 1910s were often presented to the public as spectacles, and a picture like this shows how such flights were framed for readers. Because the record is thin, the exact flight, its date and its organizers remain uncertain.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms 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 two loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,816 × 4,267 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-10366

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