Akron Collection

Greetings from Akron, Ohio, USA
Greetings postcard from Akron, Ohio, USA, rubber manufacturing center of the world, showing the Goodyear Memorial and a rubber tyre shape containing three scenes (Firestone, Goodrich and Goodyear)

Large Letter Card - Greetings from Akron, Ohio, USA Date: circa 1940

A 1 / 40 scale model of the airship Akron
A 1/40 scale model of the airship Akron in the Full-Scale wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics Laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, USA, in January 1935. Date: 1935

The US Navy airship ZRS-4 Akron in moored on its mobile mast

Goodyear GA-33 Inflatoplane
Goodyear Ga-33 Inflatoplane Unusual Rubber Inflatable Light-Aircraft Design Taking-Off Flown by Pilot Dick Ulm Date: 1956

Zeppelin airship - two cover designs
Zeppelin airship on two cover designs. Unusual USS Akron promotional two-sided advertising card, copy of the Texaco Star showing the Zeppelin airship flying over New York

Main Street, Akron, Ohio, USA
View of Main Street looking south, Akron, Ohio, USA. Date: 1911

Plant of B F Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio, USA
Plant of the B F Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio, USA, specialising in rubber production. Date: circa 1905

Goodyear Fire & Rubber Co, Akron, Ohio, USA
A horse-drawn vehicle of the Goodyear Fire & Rubber Co, Akron, Ohio, USA, with its crew of firefighters. Date: 1902

The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company Factory, Akron, Ohio Date: 1930s

The 1912 non-rigid airship Akron. Date: 1912

The US Navy airship ZRS-4 Akron during construction

The US Navy airship ZRS-4 Akron cutaway drawing

The US Navy airship ZRS-4 Akron emerging from its hangar for its first trial flight

The US Navy airship ZRS-4 Akron in flight

AKRON CRASHES 1933
AKRON : always accident- prone, the American airship is caught in a storm and plunges into the sea, never to emerge... Date: 1933

Farmers visit US Dry Land Experiment Station near Akron, Colorado. Date 1939 Oct

AKRON ACCIDENT - 2
AKRON : the ship suddenly takes to the air, carrying three men with her : one saves himself by clinging to a rope, but his companions fall 200 metres to their deaths. Date: 1932

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