Title	Goodyear zeppelin in airdock
Subject	Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation Airships Hangars
Time Period	1930s 1940s
Place	Akron (Ohio) Summit County (Ohio)
Description	The zeppelin under construction in the photograph is most likely the USS Akron or its sister ship, the USS Macon, built in the early 1930s. These airships were designed to be used by the US Navy for reconnaissance, but were in service for only a short time. Each ship met disaster due to weather conditions, including the Akron, which went down off the coast of New Jersey, and the Macon, which crashed in Monterey Bay, California. The center of zeppelin production in the United States was Akron, Ohio. In 1916, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company purchased land near Akron to build a plant that could produce zeppelin aircraft. The plant was called the Goodyear Airdock. In 1917, the main Goodyear Company created a subsidiary known as the Goodyear Zeppelin Company to manufacture the zeppelins.
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Date of Original	ca. 1930-1940
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B07F07_003_1.tif
Image Height	5969
Image Width	4898
File Size	116518302 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2011-04-26
Date modified	2012-03-16

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