Margaret Bourke White (1904 – 1971)
Airship Akron
Gelatin silver print
17 ¼ x 22 ¾ inches
Signed lower right
printed text on frame lower center: “U.S.S. Akron/World’s Largest Airship/This frame is made of Duralumin used in girder construction of the United States Airship “Akron”/built by the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation”

Margaret Bourke-White
The iconic photographer and chronicler of American life for much of the 20th Century, Bourke-White broke boundaries not just as a woman, but as an artist. She was a person of many firsts.