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Akron Over Lincoln: 1931
November 2, 1931. Washington, D.C. "Navy airship U.S.S. Akron over the Lincoln Memorial." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.
THE AKRON'S VISIT.
The giant airship Akron arrived yesterday to salute the Capital on its first flight, after having been officially dedicated to Navy service on Navy Day. Accompanied by its older, slimmer sister, the Los Angeles, the Akron, bearing 108 men, circled over the city, dipped in salute to the White House, and gave Washingtonians their first chance to see the world's largest and newest dirigible. (Washington Post, 11.3.31)
Theodor Horydczak
That's a really nice photo. The use of the columns to frame the airship is inventive and well executed. The balance of light between deep shade and full sun was difficult to finesse, no doubt; it is pleasing to the eye. I don't recall the name Theodor Horydczak in all my years of following 20th century photography. Maybe Shorpy has posted some but I hadn't taken notice. This one, though, is worth noting (for me).
[Click on his tag above the photo. - Dave]
(Thanks, Dave! That's a really deep and great body of work by Theodor Horydczak you've presented here on Shorpy through the years! And many of them I recognize as pictures that had held my attention in the past. Horydczak really understood architectural photography! And he had a good eye for people, too. Being (re)-directed to the tab above the image is a good reminder: don't get old; retention of simple tricks lessens.)
So I looked up Horydczak. He was born in Poland in 1989, emigrated as an 18-year-old, took up photography during his military service in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I, and then became a commercial/documentary photographer in Washington, D.C., until his retirement in 1959. His sizable catalog of large-format images was given to the Library of Congress a couple of years after his 1971 death.
I learn something via Shorpy (and Wikipedia) pretty much every day. Thank you.
Build it and they will come
Ladies and gentlemen, if you look out the left side of the aircraft you will see the Lincoln Memorial. Completed nine years ago on reclaimed swampland in West Potomac Park, it backs up to the Potomac River, making it one of the less accessible D.C. monuments. Doubtful any important events will ever take place there.
Look! Up in the sky --
The craziest thing happened today. Looked up to see the Goodyear blimp flying over near where I live. Especially interesting after seeing all these airship photos the last few days.
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