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Title: [Captain Baldwin's airship] (2 views)
Creator: Fanjoy, Charles A
Date Created and/or Issued: [1905]
Publication Information: Ocean Park, Calif. : C.A. Fanjoy, Artistic Photography
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: View 1 (2009-1108). Shows airship on beach, crowd of spectators including group of women, two young girls in foreground -- view 2 (2009-1109). Shows same scene, automobile in foreground.
Airship was on exhibit for five weeks during winter of 1905. Captain Thomas Scott Baldwin's gas balloon was cigar-shaped dirigible made of Japanese silk, was 54 feet long and 17 feet in diameter. Built in Oakland in 1904, made ascents at World's Fair, St. Louis, in Nov. 1904. Named California Arrow, made historic ascents at Chures Park in Los Angeles when flown by Roy Knabenshue in late Nov. 1904.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 2 photographic prints ; 5 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. and 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001416412CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Baldwin, Thomas Scott,, 1854-1923--Photographs
Beaches--California--Santa Monica
Airships--California--Santa Monica
Automobiles--California--Santa Monica
Women--Clothing & dress--California--Santa Monica
Girls--Clothing & dress--California--Santa Monica
Ocean Beach (Santa Monica, Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Santa Monica
Ocean Beach (Santa Monica, Calif.)

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