Akron, world's largest dirigible, pays first visit to Capital city / photo by Underwood and Underwood. – Historic Photograph 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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Akron, world's largest dirigible, pays first visit to Capital city / photo by Underwood and Underwood.
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Few airships of the era approached the size of the Navy's new Akron, which the record calls the world's largest dirigible. Here it passes over the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., during its first visit to the capital in November 1931. Built by Goodyear-Zeppelin in Akron, Ohio, the rigid airship was filled with helium, a safer choice than the hydrogen used in earlier German zeppelins. The aerial view shows how the huge hull dwarfed the city's landmarks, a point of pride for the Navy at the time. Akron was lost in a storm off the New Jersey coast in 1933.
| Created / published | 1931 Nov. 2. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Aerial photographs 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | No. 77006 RU. |
| Subjects | United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1930-1940. Airships--Washington (D.C.)--1930-1940. Washington (D.C.)--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,634 × 2,872 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-187741 |
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