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Pulham Royal Naval Airship Station, Norfolk, circa 1910s - early 1920s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Pulham Royal Naval Airship Station, Norfolk, circa 1910s - early 1920s
Album of 166 gelatin silver prints, the majority approx. 3½ x 4½ in., mostly mounted four or six-per-page back-to-back on brown card (a few pages cut down), numbered in white ink on mounts, string-bound, maroon cloth loosely stitched over boards, oblong 4to.; with an album of thirty-six gelatin silver prints, 3½ x 5½ to 8½ x 6½ in., the majority of the larger prints with ink manuscript text on surface, variously mounted, string-bound paper wrappers, oblong 8vo. (2)

Lot Essay

The first album comprises studies of airships and blimps on land and in the air, including the C27, the NS5, the 23, and damaged wreckage after a crash; views of several engine gondolas including one used for aerial photography; details of machined parts; views of the BE2 "Kwahu"; aerial views of the airfield including the gasometers; views from the air of battleships; copies of drawings of ships for reconnaissance exercises and of working drawings of German airships; an interior of the print-finishing and negative storage room at Pulham; portraits of a diver and studies of his diving outfit. The second album contains eighteen views of airships, most of the R33, some showing damage to the nose sustained during a severe storm in April 1925; WWI aerial reconnaissance photographs (these with additional hand-written information) and three group portraits.

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