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Commercial photograph created for the Graf Zeppelin’s historic 1929 round-the-world flight, which was partly funded by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in exchange for media coverage rights.

This is one of more than 30,000 photos from our “Dick” Whittington Collection that we’ve recently digitized with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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