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Goodyear Blimp Real Photo Postcards, 1910-1913 (5 + 1) [186278]

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Goodyear Blimp Real Photo Postcards, 1910-1913 (5 + 1) [186278]
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Goodyear Blimp Real Photo Postcards, 1910-1913 (5 + 1) Important historical group of early balloon real photo post cards and one printed card.
This group marks four separate ballooning events at the beginning of the commercial balloon era, circa 1908-10. 1. Event 1. vertical rpc of airborne balloon with large American flag flying above the basket that has two men. No other identification. c1908-10 2. Event 2. three blue sepia toned rpc's of a single balloon event in a small yard next to a large warehouse in an unknown town The three cards are a sequence - the balloon on the ground, probably loading the basket; the balloon on the ground with loaded basket; and the balloon just after launch. undated, unknown locale. c1908-10 3. Event 3. printed postcard, balloon races at Indianapolis Speedway postmarked May 28, 1910. shows 4 unmarked balloons. 4. event 4. RPC of Goodyear balloon. c 1913. Goodyear became convinced that air travel would be by balloon or zeppelin style air transport, rather than airplanes. They started a data gathering program about 1909. Their first balloon had the Goodyear logo on it, seen here. Succeeding balloons were numbered in Roman Numerals. (1933 had Goodyear IX) The German zeppelin design soon overtook the more simplistic and less navigational balloons. [] [] [] [] []