Image / Navy airship USS Akron in flight, 1931-1933

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Title: Navy airship USS Akron in flight, 1931-1933
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1931-1933]
1931/1933
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The Akron was launched in 1931 and was destroyed in a thunderstorm off the coast of New Jersey in 1933.
The Navy's dirigible Akron in flight.
Text from negative sleeve: U.S. Navy Blimps Akron
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4233
ark:/21198/zz002cq0b7
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Airships--American--California--Los Angeles
Akron (Airship)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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