Blimp, Zeppelin No. 3, on ground, spectators – Historic Reproduction
(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: Blimp, Zeppelin No. 3, on ground, spectators, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Blimp, Zeppelin No. 3, on ground, spectators
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A crowd of spectators stands around an airship resting on the ground, the kind of scene that drew large audiences to airship flights in the years before World War I. The caption calls it "Blimp, Zeppelin No. 3," but the title comes from unverified Bain News Service data, and the word "blimp" is loose here, since Zeppelins were rigid airships with internal frames. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's German airships were then the most publicized in the world, so the photograph captures both the machine and the public fascination it provoked.
| Created / published | 4/4/13. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 5,816 × 4,192 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5429 |
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