Photo #: NH 98219
Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby
With his wife and son, by the control car of USS Shenandoah
(ZR-1), during the dirigible's christening ceremonies inside
the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey,
10 October 1923.
Mrs. Denby was Shenandoah's sponsor.
Note the sandbag weights used to keep the inflated airship on
the ground.
Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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