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ZEPPELINS -
THE AESTHETICS OF BEING BOMBED, and beyond
THE DIRIGIBLE IN ADVERTISING |
THE DIRIGIBLE - two cartoons |
THE DIRIGIBLE - IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN gallery one |
THE DIRIGIBLE - IN THE PUBLiC DOMAIN gallery two, |
1900-1950
before 1900
EARLY IMAGES OF FLIGHT, BALLOONING (and texts from the Annual Register) |
Austrian Bombardment of Venice in 1848 from Balloons. single |
1914-1918
Zeppelins,The War Cabinet report 1917, anti aircraft provision |
GALLERY ONE, the Aesthetics of being bombed | |
GALLERY TWO, visual evidence in the Press | |
GALLERY THREE, the Nature of the beast |
W.E.WIGFULL, ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE SEA-GIRT FORTRESS1914 |
WONDERS OF WORLD ENGINEERING 1937 |
FRED JANE, HARTMANN THE ANARCHIST |
BATTLEBAGS Ces Mowthorpe, a visual bibliographic note |
THE ZEPPELIN IN COMBAT Douglas Robinson, a visual bibliographic note |
Zeppelins, a History, Gears in Mesh Zahnradfabrick |
Christopher Chant ZEPPELINS, A History of German Airships from 1900 bibliog |
LEON SPILLAERT, three paintings 1911 |
1939-1945
LCC BOMB DAMAGE TO LONDON maps and photographs |
THE BOMBED BUILDINGS OF BRITAIN, 1943 |
LONDON BOMBED, LIFE OCTOBER 1940 |
PROTECTING YOUR HOME AGAINST AIR-RAIDS 1938, a Government Pamphlet |
BRITAIN WONDERFUL FIGHTING FORCES, The Home Defence System 1942 single |
BRITAIN WONDERFUL FIGHTING FORCES, The Doodle Bug 1942 single |
GALLERY FOUR, Taking Shelter (1939) |
Taking Shelter (1940 LONDON) |
SINGLES 1914-1918
Where Air Raiders dropped Bombs, Daily Mail c1917 |
ZEPPELINS RAID ENGLAND Chicago Herald 1915 |
Frank Brangwyn, litho single, Soldier on Guard, the Zeppelin litho |
ZEPPELINS OVER LONDON, design by Joseph Urban, for the 1915 Follies, theatre New York |
R36 Airship / Vickers R 80 technical Drawings 1911 |
The Zeppelin War, Louis Raemaekers |
The Threat of the Zeppelin The Graphic 1915 |
SINGLES before 1939
AN AIRSHIP ENGAGES WITH ITS MOORING MAST, The World of Wonder 1932 |
That was the plan, defending London c1936 | |
"Costumes for Zepps" Attitudes in 1939 from PUNCH | |
Air Raid Shelter after 1940, Hand off my Knee |
The Pride of the Navy (Texaco 1930) |
Zeppelin Line Poster 1937 |
A.E.COOPER, LONDON FROM AN AIRSHIP, painting before 1924 |
CAREL WILLINK, THE ZEPPELIN 1932 |
Naval Airship No 1 / HMA N 1 |
Appropriate
texts, the Zeppelins over Wartime London - the Terrors of the Underground
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• " It seems to me the stark truth one has inside one is all that matters whether it is paint, or books or life. ... I saw the Daily Mirror today today - the Zeppelin wrecks etc. How exhausted one is by all this fury of strident lies and foul death......." Lawrence to Gertler Sept 1916.
• from "The Question of Things Happening", Letters of Virginia Woolf , 1912-1922. 781: "To VANESSA BELL Friday [25 August 1916] ...I can't help being selfishly rather glad that you may spend part of the winter in London, especially with these raids going on. We actually had a zeppelin over the house here--in broad daylight. We were away, but the servants say the sound is unmistakable, and were in a panic; Nelly hiding in the wood, and Lottie running to the Woolers, where Mrs Wooler did nothing but dash into her house and out again. But it was so high up that no one saw it. Eleven aeroplanes chased it. I can't help thinking it was really English." p.112 • from "The Question of Things Happening", Letters of Virginia Woolf , 1912-1922. 817: "To VANESSA BELL Monday [22 January 1917] "...The fog is permanent here; by night we have the Aurora Borealis, which a man in the street took to be zeppelins, so shouted out loud under the servants window. At midnight we heard them carrying their bedding to the kitchen, there to lie on the floor till day--With great difficulty we got them up again, and lectured them on the nature of northern lights. I think I must write the stories of our youth for Julian. Aunt Ena is dead." p.138
Much obliged to Rebecca Mary Wilson for these references. |
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