Mooring mast of R - 33 – Antique 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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A window into the past: Mooring mast of R - 33, 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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Mooring mast of R - 33
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A tall steel mooring mast for R 33, a British rigid airship of the 1920s, is the subject here. R 33 was built at Cardington and modeled on the German Zeppelin L 33, which had been forced down in England in 1916 and studied by British engineers. A mooring mast was a tower where an airship's nose was tethered so the craft could swing freely with the wind, and R 33 spent much of its service tied to such masts. The record gives no date for this glass negative, and its title comes from unverified Bain News Service notes, so the exact year and location should be treated with caution.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 6,410 × 8,875 px · prints to 21 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34149 |
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