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Description
2008-0974 PHOTO: AVIATION: AIRSHIPS (DIRIGIBLE): AKRON View 1 (2008-0974). Shows buildings, trees, and airship in far distance -- view 2 (2008-0975). Full length view of airship, moored at air field -- view 3 (2008-0976). Front end of airship showing cabin beneath, spectators visible in distance -- view 4 (2008-0977). Back end of airship, spectators in distance. Photographs taken by Orville T. Blake (1620 40th Ave., Oakland, Calif.). His parents were Reo Blake Goble and Vern Goble, brothers were Marvin and George Blake. Parents and brothers show up in some of the photographs, where the family was vacationing. USS Akron, rigid airship built in Akron, Ohion. May and June of 1932 based on West Coast. May 13, 1932 landed at Sunnyvale following transcontinental flight from Lakehurst, New Jersey. Mr. & Mrs. Walter H. Blake, Jr.,
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
4 photographic prints ; 2 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001389122CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-2434
Subject
Akron (Airship) Airships--California--Sunnyvale Mooring masts Sunnyvale (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints
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