This image appears in Hans Rozenkranz’s Graf Zeppelin: Die Geschichte eines abenteuerlichen Lebens (Verlag Ullstein, Berlin: 1931).

Yesterday I posted a photograph of Count Zeppelin with Union officers during the American Civil War.

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Zeppelin wrote of his visit to the Fairfax Courthouse to visit the German division in XI Corps under the command of Carl Schurz.

The officers in the photograph are identified as: (left to right) Major Ludlow, Captain Ulric Dahlgren (standing), Lieutenant Colonel Dickinson, Zeppelin, and Lieutenant Rosencranz. The accompanying text notes that “the gentleman in foreign uniform is Count Zeppalin (sic), of the Prussian army, then on a visit to this country.”

Tomorrow I will post another photograph of Count von Zeppelin in the United States. Keep an eye on the blog.  🙂 

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A blog reader, whose hobby is reenacting Prussian artillery of the Napoleonic period, and who wishes to remain anonymous, very kindly took the time to let me know that the figure usually identified as Count Zeppelin (second from right) is actually a Union Army officer.

The photograph can be found in the collection of the Library of Congress (LC-B811-435A [P&P] LOT 4174). According to the caption it was taken during the Peninsula Campaign of May-August, 1862 (before Zeppelin arrived in America in 1863) and depicts officers of the Horse Artillery commanded by Lt. Col. William Hays: Lt. Robert Clarke, Capt. John C. Tidball, Lt. William N. Dennison, and Capt. Alexander C.M. Pennington.

The same reader also pointed me to a photograph that does depict Count von Zeppelin during the Civil War. I will post it tomorrow. Keep an eye on the blog. 🙂

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My deep appreciation to the reader who provided this information. Corrections and comments are always welcome! Please feel free to contact me.

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Visit Travel for Aircraft to see the rest.

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Stacey M. Carter. Tail view of Airship Akron at Moffett Field 1932, Hangar One Under Construction, 2014

Giants in the Sky | The Rise and Fall of Airships will be a multimedia, interactive exposition including contemporary artwork, vintage photographs, artifacts, memorabilia, and video.

The museum is located in Silicon Valley near San Jose and Moffett Field, home to the American naval airship U.S.S. Macon.

Among the educational programs will be a talk by my good friend and colleague Dr. Cheryl Ganz, the recently-retired Chief Curator of Philately of the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum, who is one of the world’s leading experts on airship history. The date has not been announced.

The New Museum Los Gatos is, literally, a new museum; it opens to the public for the first time on Saturday, June 6, 2015.

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Goodyear Blimp Resolute. (photo by Dr. Alfred Hill, Kent O’Grady collection)

My deep thanks to Kent O’Grady for allowing me to share this wonderful photo from his personal collection.

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Over the years Ken has also created historically accurate paintings of LZ-129 Hindenburg for books including Hindenburg – An Illustrated History and Inside the Hindenburg – A Giant Cutaway Book.  Ken is now offering several of his original paintings for sale.

Painting For Sale:

From Hindenburg – An Illustrated History

The Hindenburg Disaster. Commissioned for the book Hindenburg: An Illustrated History (Pages 186-187). Acrylic on board, 30? x 23″ / Unframed

Graf Zeppelin arrives over San Francisco from Tokyo in August, 1929. Commissioned for the book Hindenburg: An Illustrated History (Pages 116-117). Acrylic on board, 34″ x 20″/ Framed

From Inside the Hindenburg:

ID #1: Acrylic on Board, 24″ x 19″ / Unframed

ID #2: Acrylic on Board, 24″ x 19″ / Unframed

ID #3: Acrylic on Board, 24″ x 19″ / Unframed

ID #4: Acrylic on Board, 12″ x 12″ / Unframed

ID #5:  Acrylic on Board, 20″ x 16″ / Unframed

ID #6:  Acrylic on Board, 25″ x 16″ / Unframed

ID #7:  Acrylic on Board, 22″ x 18″ / Unframed

ID #8: Acrylic on Board, 22″ x 17″ / Unframed

Prices are available on request.  For information about price or availability, please send me an email and I will pass it along to Ken:  Dan@Airships.net

Note:  As regular readers know, Airships.net is completely non-profit and non-commercial. I am posting this information solely as a personal favor to Ken, whose work I greatly respect; I will not receive a commission or any other compensation for this blog post and all discussions will be directly between the buyer and Ken. 

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The Hindenburg disaster, colored by Dana Keller  (click to enlarge)

Several friends and blog readers told me about this colorized image of the Hindenburg disaster and I wanted to share it with anyone who may have missed it.

While it was this image that brought Dana Keller’s work to my attention, all of his work is impressive.  It allows us to see historical figures as real people and thanks to Dana we can imagine having a face-to-face chat with Babe Ruth, Marie Curie, H. G. Wells, or even Lewis Powell in a way that is hard to do with a black-and-white image.

(And Madame Curie was quite a babe, no?  Too soon?)

Seriously, I encourage you to spend some time looking at Dana’s work at History in Color on Facebook, and similar images by Dana and other talented artists can also be seen here and here.

(A final note about this Hindenburg image that should go without saying:  Naturally this should not be used as a historical document illustrating the actual color of the Hindenburg flames for the purpose of analyzing the cause or progress of the fire.  But as a way to imagine what it might have felt like to witness the disaster, Dana’s image is spectacular.)

And on a quick personal note, I apologize that the blog has been so quiet lately; I will try to keep it more lively in the next few months.  🙂

Babe Ruth

Marie Curie

H. G. Wells

Lewis Powell

Babe Ruth, Marie Curie, H. G. Wells, and Lewis Powell colored by Dana Keller.

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Update:  The ship in this image was originally identified as U.S.S. Macon but knowledgeable colleagues have persuaded me it is more likely U.S.S. Akron.  I am always grateful for corrections!

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I thought readers might be interested in the following photos of Norge from the upcoming auction.

Film of the Norge expedition from YouTube:

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