Rare Goodyear-Zeppelin USS Akron Airship, WWII Barra Balloon Photos & Film Lot For Sale
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Rare Goodyear-Zeppelin USS Akron Airship, WWII Barra Balloon Photos & Film Lot:
$150.00
Rare Goodyear-Zeppelin Akron Collection — USS Akron Airship, Airdock, WWII Barrage Balloon Photos & Film.
Original nineteen thirties and forties Goodyear-Zeppelin archive from Akron, Ohio — the heart of American airship history.
Includes:
- Press photo of a rigid airship with swiveling propellers, stamped A. C. Oneil — likely the USS Akron, ZRS-four, built in the Goodyear Airdock in nineteen thirty-one. The Akron crashed in a storm in April nineteen thirty-three with seventy-three aboard, making this one of the most dramatic airships ever built.
- Two aerial photographs of the Goodyear Airdock mooring field, with numbered circles painted on the ground for parking airships — a rare view of the world's largest unsupported building in operation.
- Photo of men in suits posing on the control car of a blimp, likely a Goodyear commercial ship or Navy K-class.
- Original Goodyear News Service photo of women workers in the barrage balloon building, U.S. War Department approved for publication — the Rosies who built the balloons that protected factories and convoys in World War Two.
- Original film footage of a barrage balloon over the airdock mooring field.
- Handwritten "Proposed Airship" design drawing.
Rare Goodyear-Zeppelin USS Akron Airship, WWII Barra Balloon Photos & Film Lot
$150.00
1931 World's Largest Airship USS AKRON OHIO Illustrated Goodyear Zeppelin Rare
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1932 Original Photograph of Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation Plant
$48.00
