Airships at Lakehurst Naval Air Station photographs, 1929-1938
Airships at Lakehurst Naval Air Station photographs, 1929-1938
Airships at Lakehurst Naval Air Station photographs, 1929-1938

Airships at Lakehurst Naval Air Station photographs, 1929-1938


Permanent ID:
5775
Call number:
V7:1603-1605
Dates:
circa 1938
August 4 1929
August 4 1929
Image Description:
(1) Photograph depicts men and women, including Naval officers, approaching the U.S. Navy L-1.  L-Class blimps were training airships operated by the United States Navy during World War II.  U.S. Navy L-1 was delivered in April 1938 and operated from the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, N.J.

(2) Aerial photograph of the German blimp Graf Zeppelin as it flies over a Lakehurst hangar before making a journey to New York City from New Jersey.  Graf Zeppelin was a passenger-carrying airship, which operated commercially from 1928-1937.  The airship made 590 flights covering more than a million miles before it was retired at a Frankfurt airport and deflated. 

(3) Photograph depicts the German blimp Graf Zeppelin hovering over hangar in Lakehurst, N.J.
Inscription:
(2) LLL994
THE GRAF ZEPPELIN COMES TO AMERICA FOR THE SECOND TIME. LAKEFURST NAVAL AIR STATION, LAKEHURST, N.J.---The Graf Zeppelin flew from Freiderichaven Germany to here, a distance of over five thousand miles and completed her second xxxxxx westward trans-Atlantic flight in record time.  Before landing at the hangar she circled the field and then headed for New York City where she circled the city giving the Broadwayites a thrill- as it came over the city just as night fell.  PHOTO SHOWS_ the monster dirigible circling over the hangaxrat Lakehurst, before heading for New York.
YOUR CREDIT LINE MUST READ (ACME)

(3) WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE:
PHOTO FROM: WIDE WORLD PHOTOS.-
XXXXXX-
363631- A TRANSATLANTIC AERIAL VISITOR FROM GERMANY.-
LAKEHURST, N.J.---The huge “Graf Zeppelin,” hovering over the Lake-hurst hangar after the completion of its second successful flight over the ocean from Germany to America.-
8/4/29.-
(Bottom)
Address:
Route 547, Lakehurst
Format:
Photographs
Collection:
Philadelphia Record photograph morgue
Library of Congress Subjects:
Graf Zeppelin (Airship) [info:lc/authorities/names/n79096922]
Military airships [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh2009000253]