all in hand-made 4to canvas covered album with black stenciled title on cover Akron 1912. The 1-page typed introduction reads in part The cover of this book is made from a part of the bag, or outside skin of the balloon of the air-ship "AKRON", which I secured from the water where it landed after the collapse, as shown in one of the pictures herein featured.... The album has 22 pages of newspaper clippings about this disaster, which killed the owner/pilot Melvin Vaniman and four passengers just off the coast of Atlantic City, N.J. on July 2, 1912. The lighter than air ship had an explosion in the gasoline tank that fueled the propeller driven engines, while the ship was ca 800-1000 feet in the air, causing the vessel to fall and crash into the sea, killing all aboard. A piece of the canvas skin mounted inside the cover of this album shows evidence of fire from the explosion. The album also includes a ink drawing made by the creator of this album S.T. Moore entitled along lower margin Wreck of the Vaniman Air Ship, Atlantic City, N.J. July 2d 1912, 6:50 A.M. as seen by S.T. Moore, Harrisburg, Pa.. The drawing shows the flaming airship falling from the sky toward the ocean and is 5.75" x 9" and tipped into the album with paste along top margin only. Album also includes five 3.5" x 5.5" period silver prints of this airship, including one taken of the floating wreckage the day of the disaster. Malvin Vaniman (1866-1912) was a pioneer aero-photographer. His panoramic photographs were nearly always taken from high above the ground and if a nearby building or ship's mast was not at hand, he erected his own 30-meter pole to achieve a bird's-eye view. His antics atop a pole in Katoomba Park in 1903 earned him the nickname 'the acrobatic photographer'. When his trusty pole didn't give him the height necessary to photograph the entire city of Sydney in a single sweep, he imported a balloon from America and spent months tethered 180 meters above North Sydney, experimenting with the new perspective. Vaniman even built his own camera, able to record panoramic views on film up to two meters in length and 50 cm wide in a single shot, to utilize the higher viewpoint. Melvin was a companion of Walter Wellman (America airships) and died in 1912 when his transoceanic, Akron airship exploded while making a test flight (http://www.earlyaviators.com/evannima.htm). Condition: VG.
all in hand-made 4to canvas covered album with black stenciled title on cover Akron 1912. The 1-page typed introduction reads in part The cover of this book is made from a part of the bag, or outside skin of the balloon of the air-ship "AKRON", which I secured from the water where it landed after the collapse, as shown in one of the pictures herein featured.... The album has 22 pages of newspaper clippings about this disaster, which killed the owner/pilot Melvin Vaniman and four passengers just off the coast of Atlantic City, N.J. on July 2, 1912. The lighter than air ship had an explosion in the gasoline tank that fueled the propeller driven engines, while the ship was ca 800-1000 feet in the air, causing the vessel to fall and crash into the sea, killing all aboard. A piece of the canvas skin mounted inside the cover of this album shows evidence of fire from the explosion. The album also includes a ink drawing made by the creator of this album S.T. Moore entitled along lower margin Wreck of the Vaniman Air Ship, Atlantic City, N.J. July 2d 1912, 6:50 A.M. as seen by S.T. Moore, Harrisburg, Pa.. The drawing shows the flaming airship falling from the sky toward the ocean and is 5.75" x 9" and tipped into the album with paste along top margin only. Album also includes five 3.5" x 5.5" period silver prints of this airship, including one taken of the floating wreckage the day of the disaster. Malvin Vaniman (1866-1912) was a pioneer aero-photographer. His panoramic photographs were nearly always taken from high above the ground and if a nearby building or ship's mast was not at hand, he erected his own 30-meter pole to achieve a bird's-eye view. His antics atop a pole in Katoomba Park in 1903 earned him the nickname 'the acrobatic photographer'. When his trusty pole didn't give him the height necessary to photograph the entire city of Sydney in a single sweep, he imported a balloon from America and spent months tethered 180 meters above North Sydney, experimenting with the new perspective. Vaniman even built his own camera, able to record panoramic views on film up to two meters in length and 50 cm wide in a single shot, to utilize the higher viewpoint. Melvin was a companion of Walter Wellman (America airships) and died in 1912 when his transoceanic, Akron airship exploded while making a test flight (http://www.earlyaviators.com/evannima.htm). Condition: VG.
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