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The Zeppelin airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin landed at Mines Field, California. San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives.

The Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg coming in to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1936. The airship's hangar and the Zeppelin-built airship USS Los Angeles can be seen in the background. A United States Coast Guard Douglas RD-4 is flying...

The dinner service used on the Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg. Food was prepared in a kitchen equipped with a stove with four electric rings, roasting and baking ovens, a refrigerator, and an ice machine. Dishes like trout and venison...

A full-size replica of a double cabin on the Hindenburg, a German Zeppelin airship, which was in service from 1936 to 1937. Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen.

The interior framework of the Zeppelin airship LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II while under construction at the Zeppelin headquarters at Friedrichshafen, Germany, c. 1936. San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives.

The gondola of the Zeppelin airship USS Los Angeles, 1924. The airbag under the front part of the gondola was designed to cushion the landing of the aircraft. German Federal Archives.

The Zeppelin airship USS Los Angeles tethered to USS Patoka off the coast of Panama, 1931. US Naval History and Heritage Command.

Passenger seating of the airship USS Los Angeles, 1924. National Archives of the Netherlands.

The Zeppelin airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin flying over the Barolo Palace of Buenos Aires, June 1934. General Archive of the Nation, Argentina.

The Zeppelin airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin flying over Switzerland. The Graf Zeppelin measured 775 feet (237 m) in length, had a diameter of 100 feet (30.5 m), and a gas volume of 3.7 million cubic feet (105,000 m³). Photograph by Walter Mittelholzer...