Photo #: NH 98223
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)
View looking up into the airship's interior, showing her aluminum
girder structure, fuel tanks and pipework, taken while she was
under construction at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey,
in 1923.
Photographed by Clements.
Note the wooden poles used to support the airship while she was
not inflated with helium lifting gas.
Collection of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN, 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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