Oct 22, 2009 - Sale 2191

Sale 2191 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET (1904-1971)
"U.S.S. Airship Akron." Warm-toned silver print, 17 1/4x22 3/4 inches (43.8x58.4 cm.), with Bourke-White's signature, in ink, on recto; in the original duralumin frame, with the caption plaque. 1931

Additional Details

The original plaque reads, "Winner-Robert Hauck, Third Annual Goodyear Dealers Zeppelin Race, July-August 1931. This frame is made of duralumin used in girder construction of the United States airship 'Akron' built by the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation."