Zeppelin airship seen from water at 6:05 AM – 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 airship seen from water at 6:05 AM. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Zeppelin airship seen from water at 6:05 AM
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Taken from the water at 6:05 in the morning, this view shows a Zeppelin airship, one of the rigid craft built under Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, which by 1908 drew wide attention in Europe and abroad. The date, August 4, 1908, coincides with a long flight of the Zeppelin LZ 4 that summer, but the record does not name the exact location, so the setting should be treated with caution. The negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs made by the Bain News Service in New York, and its title is noted as unverified. Pictures like this show how the public first encountered airships through the newspapers.
| Created / published | Aug.4, 1908. |
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| 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 | 5,779 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3371 |
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