Lot 149

Zeppelin and Airship Aviation Stereoview Photograph Group

Estimate: $50 - $400

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Group of 10 curved mount stereoviews documenting early twentieth-century airship and Zeppelin aviation. The views include interior hangar scenes showing the enormous framework and construction stages of rigid airships, including images of the structural framework of the U.S.S. Akron (ZRS-4) during assembly inside its hangar.

Several stereographs depict German Zeppelin airships, including views of Zeppelins in flight and scenes showing damaged or wrecked airships following accidents. One stereograph shows spectators gathered inside a massive airship hangar beneath the towering structure of a completed dirigible.

Published by the Keystone View Company, these stereographs were part of educational series illustrating modern engineering and aviation developments. The photographs capture both the scale of early airship construction and the public fascination surrounding Zeppelin flight during the early decades of the twentieth century.

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