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Postcard of the Naval Air Station at Moffett Field showing the U.S.S. Macon airship at its mooring. The Macon was based at Moffett Field from October 1933 until it crashed at sea on February 11, 1935. Behind the Macon is the white landing circle. In the front of the Macon is the giant hangar where the airship was housed between flights. To the rear of the postcard is the southern end of San Francisco Bay.
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image/jpeg2000 Scaled to 3000 pixels width. Grayscale strip cropped from image. Scanning outsourced to Northern Micrographics as part of the Local History Digital Resources Project, 2005-2006. Technical metadata is limited
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