Margaret Bourke-White Zepplein
This work retains original presentation frame constructed from the same material used for the girder of the United States Airship Akron built by Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation. Signed to lower right. Overall size 20-1/4" x 26". Excellent conditionOn August 8, 1931, Margaret Bourke-White took this historic photograph of the first U.S. Zeppelin, the U.S.S. Akron (powered by helium instead of hydrogen), as it was launched from its hangar at the Goodyear Airdock in Akron, Ohio. To commemorate the event, the Goodyear Company had a limited number of Bourke-White's photos encased in specialty Art Deco frames made from the same duralumin metal used in the construction of the ship, and presented them to the company's executives, engineers and naval officers involved in the execution of the airship. Another set of limited prints were set aside for the Goodyear tire dealers as sales awards for achieving outstanding quotas.In House shipping available, lower 48 states. Properly boxed and insured. $75