Two Original Airship Published Images - Blimp, Navy Airship, Passenger Airship

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Two Original Airship Published Images - Blimp, Navy Airship, Passenger Airship.
Condition is "Used".
Two Original Airship Published Images - Blimp, Navy Airship, Passenger Airship, Goodyear
Two pages from publications concerning airships
NOTE: If the winning bidder resides outside of the USA, the shipping will be adjusted accordingly. They will be shipped flat (the Goodyear ad folded in half) in a sturdy, reinforced cardboard maile
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1. Cover Only
- from sheet music for "Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship.”
Size
: 10 ½ 13 ¾
Composer/Artist
- Words by Ren Shields. Music by George Evans.
Publisher
Chas. K. Harris, New York
Publication
Date 1911
Lithographer
- Teller, Sons & Dorner. New-York
Ren Shields (lyricist)
George Evans (composer)
Condition
:
The edges are frayed and chipped with small tears, scuffs and fading that would be associated with a document 110 years old. There is a piece missing from the dog-eared lower right corner.
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2. Original 1945 print advertisement for the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation.
Double page spread.
Size 20 ½” X 14”
Publication Year:
1945 - Publication unknown.
Sample ad copy:
Some day you can go to Europe in a giant 950 foot airship just like this. You'll soar quietly, smoothly—at comfortable altitudes. Your crossing will take about 40 hours—glorious hours—of entertainment, delightful cuisine, luxurious relaxation. And the modest cost will add another happy surprise!
Condition:
Good. Holes in the center fold where the binding staples were removed. The center fold has been reinforced with archival adhesive, acid & lignin-free repair tissue on the back. The aging of these prints actually enhances their historic provenance. They are sold as-is.
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HISTORY
Proud of their current war service, Goodyear boasted in their advertisements: “By now you’ve seen the mighty records of these Navy patrol Airships- and how they helped drive enemy submarines away from out ships and shores.
For those skeptics to whom the fiery Hindenburg disaster of 1937 was still a fresh memory, Goodyear assured the public of the absolute safety of their transports. In the public’s mind the combination of flammable gasses, faulty design and difficult maneuverability meant they could be flying deathtraps.
In the early years all airships, rigid and non rigid, depended upon hydrogen for buoyancy and lift. This gas was highly flammable.
But American airships soon started to use a new gas- Helium. It was non-flammable - the perfect answer for airship progress. So in 1925 Goodyear produced the famous Pilgrim- helium filled-whose success led to the building of the remarkable Goodyear “Blimp” Fleet. These airships roamed the skyways of America for 16 years- travelled nearly a million miles – set world records for safety in flight.
Then came WWII. The US Navy Commandeered the Goodyear Fleet and ordered round-the -clock production of more and larger airships.
Coming Soon “Again and soon,” the ad pledged, “America can bring civilian travelers these luxurious giants of the sky-bigger ones, safer ones, than ever before. For America has the only safe lifting gas-non inflammable, non explosive helium. Today your Navy has thousand of trained pilots and crew men-equipped to take on the greatest airships ever conceived.
“Put airships in your travel picture- your overseas vacation plans. Not as competitors of speedy stratosphere planes, nor leisurely steamers-but as essential transport with a field all their own.”
“Airships,” Goodyear predicted “will hold a well-defined niche that’s all their own- luxurious, hotel-like comfort in long, sustained flight.”
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