[Middle Rhine River Valley, from an airship] (LOC)

    Bain News Service,, publisher.

    [Middle Rhine River Valley, from an airship]

    [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

    1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

    Notes:
     Title devised by Library staff. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
    Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards misidentified the image as: "View near Baden Baden from Zeppelin airship."
    Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

    Format: Glass negatives.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

    Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10662

    Call Number: LC-B2- 2428-5

    Comments and faves

    1. ★

      DNSF David Newman, smoke somethin, man, and lakeline added this photo to their favorites.

    2. Harry Angstrom (57 months ago | reply)

      article about zeppelins
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin

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      Cathy aka Mom and cornexo added this photo to their favorites.

    4. alice_c (54 months ago | reply)

      I don't think this is Baden-Baden?

      This looks like beeing the Rhine, Loreley en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreley, I'm pretty sure.

    5. The Library of Congress (53 months ago | reply)

      Alice C: Thanks for the information! I am not sure if the images at wikipedia confirm that this is Loreley Rock, as they are taken from a different angle. We will leave source data as is for now, but let us know if you find any more photos that confirm the location.

    6. trialsanderrors (52 months ago | reply)

      This is certainly not Baden-Baden as the Upper Rhine Valley is wide and flat, and the Vosges and Black Forest are set back from the riverbanks by a couple of miles. The scenery is very reminiscent of the Rhine Gorge between Bingen and Koblenz: the valley is very narrow and the rail line is right up on the left bank. There are a number of cliffs and bends in the gorge, so I'm not certain that it is the Loreley, but the tags should probably read "Koblenz", "Rhine Gorge", "Middle Rhine Valley" and "Rhineland-Palatinate" rather than the last four.

    7. Belenus1414 (49 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I am a geographer living at Freiburg (Black Forest), I agree with trailsanderrors. You should delete the following tags:
      Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Black Forest, Karlsruhe, Schwarzwald
      They are definitely wrong and misleading. You can compare the image with Google Earth view of Baden-Baden and its surroundings and you will find out, that there is no castle next to a big river anywhere.

      --
      Found in a search. (?)

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      coolground, imbir, daily commons, anobjectn, and 3 other people added this photo to their favorites.

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