A Once Proud Airship
A Once Proud Airship
A Once Proud Airship
A Once Proud Airship

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A Once Proud Airship,

1937

ACME Newspictures, American, active 1930s–1940s
2010-53

Information

Title
A Once Proud Airship
Dates

1937

Maker
ACME Newspictures
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 18 × 22.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 in.) image: 17.2 × 21.6 cm (6 3/4 × 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David B. Long in honor of Professor Peter C. Bunnell
Object Number
2010-53
Place Depicted

North America, United States, New Jersey, Lakehurst, Naval Air Station Lakehurst

Inscription
Numbered in ink by unknown hand, upper left corner: [crossed out] 46//59
Marks/Labels/Seals
United Press Newspictures credit stamp in black ink, verso center ACME credit stamp in light blue ink, verso center Typed caption affixed to verso, lower center: 382855 / A ONCE PROUD AIRSHIP / JUST THE BENT AND TWISTED STEEL SKELETON OF THE / AIRSHIP HINDEBURG REMAINS AFTER A HYDROGEN FIRE / ORIGINATING NEAR THE STERN OF THE SHIP DESTROYED / IT AS IT WAS LANDING AT LAKEHURST, N. J., MAY 6. / ED: WATCH WIRES PLEASE / CREDIT (COPYRIGHT 1937 ACME NEWSPICTURES, INC.) / 5//6//37
Culture
American
Type
photographs, gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
figures (representations), disasters, men, photojournalism, zeppelins

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