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This Souvenir Post Card Of the Original "AKRON" Comes To You From The Annual Exhibition Of The Rubber City Stamp Club Akron, Ohio Reproduced From An Original Photographic Postcard Owned By Bob Jones Of Sidney, Ohio In this airship Melvin Vaniman, his brother Charles and three companions ascended at Atlantic City, N.J. on July 2, 1912 to start their second attempt at a trans-Atlantic crossing. The airship exploded at 500 feet in full view of thousands of apectators. The five men fell to their deaths |
