Signal Corps Dirigible Cruising over Ft. Myer – Antique Print
![Signal Corps Dirigible Cruising over Ft. Myer, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ba/ba84b855b339-L.webp)
(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 Signal Corps Dirigible Cruising over Ft. Myer. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Signal Corps Dirigible Cruising over Ft. Myer
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Fort Myer, on the Virginia side of the Potomac across from Washington, was where the Army's Signal Corps tested its early aircraft, and this airship was photographed in that setting. The Signal Corps ran the Army's aeronautical work from the post in the first years of the twentieth century, experimenting with balloons, dirigibles and the Wright airplane. The caption card gives no date, so the picture is best read as one record of that brief, experimental period, when the Army was still deciding how lighter-than-air craft might serve reconnaissance and communication.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,135 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110030 |
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