Astra Torres, Airship -- Mays: Aldershot – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Astra Torres, Airship -- Mays: Aldershot
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The airship in this glass negative is an Astra-Torres, a non-rigid design named for the French manufacturer Société Astra and the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo, whose triangular-envelope layout set it apart from the cigar-shaped craft common at the time. The record ties the picture to Aldershot, the English garrison town in Hampshire long associated with British army training, and to the "Mays" in the title. The title comes from data the Bain News Service recorded on the negative or caption card, so the location and subject are not independently confirmed. The Bain collection holds press photographs from the early twentieth century, when airships were being tested for military and commercial use.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,685 × 4,160 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-19768 |
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