The Graf Zeppelins rendezvous with the eternal desert and the more than 4000 year old pyraminds of Gizeh Egypt – Historic Photo 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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This rare historic photograph captures The Graf Zeppelins rendezvous with the eternal desert and the more than 4000 year old pyraminds of Gizeh Egypt in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Graf Zeppelins rendezvous with the eternal desert and the more than 4000 year old pyraminds of Gizeh Egypt
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The detail that sets this card apart is the airship itself: the German Graf Zeppelin hovering over the Giza necropolis, with the pyramids below it. Keystone View Company, a major American maker of stereoscopic cards, issued the view in 1931, when the Graf Zeppelin was touring the world on long-distance flights and drawing crowds wherever it landed or passed overhead. Pairing a rigid airship with monuments some four and a half thousand years old was a deliberate contrast of modern travel and ancient wonder, the kind of juxtaposition stereoviews were built to sell to armchair travelers.
| Created / published | 1931 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | J9960 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Company. No. 8627. · Carson Marian S. collector. |
| Subjects | Graf Zeppelin (Airship)--German--Egypt--Jīzah--1930-1940. Airships--Egypt--Jīzah--1930-1940. Pyramids--Egypt--Jīzah--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,255 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-268068 |
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