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Graf Zeppelin (Airship)

 Organization

Historical Note

Airship. Also referred to as: Zeppelin (Airship); LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin"; Cepelin (Airship); Graf Zeppelin (Air-ship). It was a German-built and -operated, passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled, rigid airship which operated commercially from 1928 to 1937.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

William E. Boeing Sr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-10-06-B
Abstract

William E. Boeing, Sr. (1881-1956) was an aviation pioneer and founded The Boeing Company in 1916. The collection holds textual materials, such as correspondence, philately, business-related materials, clippings, and ephemera, as well as photographs and illustrations related to his personal and business life, circa 1783-2008. Major areas of interest include family photographs and extensive personal and business-related correspondence.

Dates: circa 1783-2008; Majority of material found within 1900s-1930s

Margaret Keyser Early Aviation Photograph Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1991-07-26
Contents of the Collection The Margaret Keyser Early Aviation Photograph Collection includes approximately 70 black-and-white photographs of assorted aircraft, 1918-1940 (bulk dates 1920s-1930s). Sizes range from 3x5" to 16x20" and many images include brief captions that provide contextual information, such as aircraft model, location, or date. A sample of identified aircraft includes the Boeing P-12E, Curtiss O-1 Falcon, Douglas B-23, Keystone Bomber, and Thomas-Morse O-19. There are also several shots of...
Dates: 1918-1940; Majority of material found within 1920s-1930s

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Aeronautics -- Competitions 1
Air mail pioneers 1
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Aircraft industry -- United States -- History 1
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Alaska 1
Alaska Natives 1
Balloons 1
Biplanes 1
Boats and boating 1
Boeing B & W (Boeing & Westervelt) (Model 1) 1
Boeing Model 204A 1
Boeing Model 5 - C-650-700 1
Boeing PW-9 Family 1
Boeing Plant 1 "Red Barn" 1
British Columbia 1
Canada 1
Caquot observation balloon 1
Curtiss A-3 Falcon 1
Curtiss NBS-1 (Martin MB-2) 1
Curtiss O-1 Falcon Family 1
Curtiss P-1A Hawk 1
Curtiss P-1B Hawk 1
Curtiss XNBS-4 1
Douglas B-23 Dragon 1
Douglas O-2 Family 1
Douglas O-25 1
Douglas O-38 Family 1
Engineering Division NBL-1 Barling Bomber 1
Engines 1
Fokker F-10 Super TriMotor (TriMotor Deluxe, F-X, F-Ten) 1
Fokker Universal (Atlantic Model 4) 1
Ford 4-AT - 14-AT Tri-Motor Family 1
Ford C-3 Tri-Motor 1
Ford C-4A Tri-Motor 1
Hangars 1
Heath Shipyard (Seattle, Wash.) 1
Hot air balloons 1
Hunting 1
Keystone Bomber Family 1
Loening (Corp) Air Yacht (Cabin Amphibian, Duck, CW, C2, etc.) 1
Mexican Border War 1
Mexico 1
Monterey (Calif.) 1
New Zealand 1
Northwest, Pacific 1
Parachutes 1
Puget Sound (Wash.) 1
Race horses 1
Seaplanes 1
Seattle (Wash.) 1
Soldiers 1
Thomas-Morse O-19 Family 1
Vancouver (B.C.) 1
Washington (State) 1
Washington, Lake (Wash.) 1
Wind tunnels 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
aerial photographs 1
airmail covers 1
airmail stamps 1
boarding passes 1
cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
clippings (information artifacts) 1
correspondence 1
de Havilland (Airco) D.H.4 1
engravings (prints) 1
etchings (prints) 1
first flight covers 1
photocopies 1
poetry 1
postcards 1
printed ephemera 1
prints (visual works) 1
programs (documents) 1
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