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LZ17 Sachsen 1913 Liegnitz-Dresden Flight (0.222097.1.44.1) Volume 2

Volume 1:

Number pages: 37
Names of Airships: LZ10 Schwaben, LZ11 Viktoria-Luise, LZ17Sachsen Dates of Contents: 1908-1913
Major Flights: pioneers and Rhein-Main (1912)
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Germany, Switzerland Notes: includes picture postcards and Count von Zeppelin autograph

Volume 2:

Number pages: 43
Names of Airships: LZ17 Sachsen, LZ13 Hansa, LZ120 Bodensee, LZ126/ZR3 (later Los Angeles), and LZ127 Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1913-1928
Major Flights: First North America (1928)
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Azores, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saar, Sweden, Switzerland, United States
Notes: Liegnitz card, feldpost, ZR3 Azores drop, menus, drop mail, and crew autographs

Volume 3:

Number pages: 37
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1929
Major Flights: Orient, First North America (1929)
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Danzig, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Palestine, Spain, Switzerland, and United States
Notes: drop mail and Cuers crew dispatch

Volume 4:

Number pages: 38
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1929
Major Flights: First North America (1929), World
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Azores, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Switzerland, and United States
Notes: crew mail

Volume 5:

Number pages: 38
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1929 Major Flights: World
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Canada, Dutch East Indies, Germany, France, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and United States
Notes:  unusual dispatches and destinations

Volume 6:

Number pages: 37
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1929
Major Flights: Swiss, Holland, Balkan
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, and United States

Volume 7:

Number pages: 32
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1929 Major Flights: Balkan, Spain
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Danzig, Germany, France, Lithuania, Spain, Switzerland, and United States

Volume 8:

Number pages: 32
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents: 1929-1930 Major Flights: Swiss, Spain
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Germany, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Spain, and Switzerland

Volume 9:

Number pages: 34
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1930
Major Flights: Spain, Rhineland, England, Swiss

Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Danzig, England, Germany, Italy, Saar, Spain, and Switzerland

Volume 10:

Number pages: 34
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1930 Major Flights: Pan American
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and United States Notes: mixed frankings

Volume 11:

Number pages: 39
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1930 Major Flights: Pan American
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Germany, Gibraltar, Paraguay, Spain, United States, and Uruguay
Notes: Graf Zeppelin piece of outer cover fabric

Volume 12:

Number pages: 32
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1930 Major Flights: Pan American
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Brazil, Canary Islands, Colombia, Danzig, England, Germany, Lichtenstein, Netherlands, Paraguay, Saar, Spain, Switzerland, United States
Notes: U.S. stamps and Lichtenstein dispatches

Volume 13:

Number pages: 38
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1930
Major Flights: Germany, Scandinavia, Silesia, Russia, Baltic
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Czechoslovakia, England, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and United States Notes: catapult zeppelin combination

Volume 14:

Number pages: 36
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1930
Major Flights: Baltic, Germany, Netherlands
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Cuba, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Philippines, Saar, Sweden, Switzerland, and United States

Volume 15:

Number pages: 38
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1931
Major Flights: Germany, Hungary, Egypt, Baltic

Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Lichtenstein, Netherlands, Saar, Switzerland, and United States
Notes: catapult zeppelin combination

Volume 16:

Number pages: 40
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1931
Major Flights: Baltic, Germany, Lichtenstein, Iceland, Austria, Switzerland
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Saar, Spain, Switzerland, and United States Notes: catapult zeppelin combination

Volume 17:

Number pages: 37
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1931 Major Flights: Arctic
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Canada, Danzig, Germany, Hungary, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Saar, Switzerland, and United States

Volume 18:

Number pages: 37
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1931
Major Flights: England, South America
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Brazil, Cape Verde, Danzig, England, Germany, Hungary, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, United States, and Uruguay

Volume 19:

Number pages: 37
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents: 1931-1932 Major Flights: South America
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Danzig, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Saar, Switzerland, United States, and Uruguay
Notes: catapult zeppelin combination, Swiss newspaper wrapper, meter franking

Volume 20:

Number pages: 38
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1932 Major Flights: South America
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Paraguay, Saar, Switzerland, United States, Uruguay, and Vatican
Notes: crew autographs

Volume 21:

Number pages: 38
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1932 Major Flights: South America
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Saar, Sweden, Switzerland, Tripolitania, Turkey, United States, Uruguay, Vatican, and Yugoslavia

Volume 22:

Number pages: 37
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1932
Major Flights: South America, Lichtenstein, Danzig, small flights
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Albania, Austria, Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Lichtenstein, Netherlands, Paraguay, Switzerland, and Uruguay
Notes: catapult zeppelin combination

Volume 23:

Number pages: 38
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1932 Major Flights: South America
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, England, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, andYugoslavia
Notes: catapult zeppelin combination

Volume 24:

Number pages: 33
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1932 Major Flights: South America
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, England, Estonia, France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, Morocco, Norway, Paraguay, Switzerland, United States, and Uruguay
Notes: catapult zeppelin combination

Volume 25:

Number pages: 40
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1932 Major Flights: South America
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Argentina, Brazil, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Morocco, Norway, and Switzerland
Notes: catapult zeppelin combinations

Volume 26:

Number pages: 37
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents: 1932-1933 Major Flights: South America
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Argentina, Brazil, Chile, England, Germany, Lichtenstein, Paraguay, Peru, Romania, Russia, Saar, San Marino, Switzerland, Syria, Tripolitania, Tunisia, United States, Vatican, and Yugoslavia
Notes: crew autographs

Volume 27:

Number pages: 37
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1933 Major Flights: South America
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Brazil, Cyrenaica, Czechoslovakia, England, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iraq, Italy, Malta, Paraguay, Netherlands, San Marino, Switzerland, Tunisia, United States, Uruguay, and Vatican
Notes: crew autographs

Volume 28:

Number pages: 37
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1933
Major Flights: South America, Chicago
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Brazil, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Paraguay, United States, and Uruguay

Volume 29:

Number pages: 34
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin Dates of Contents:  1933 Major Flights: Chicago
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Albania, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, Paraguay, Switzerland, United States, and Uruguay
Notes: catapult zeppelin combinations, first day covers

Volume 30:

Number pages: 31
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1934
Major Flights: Germany, South America, Argentina
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Argentina, Brazil, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Paraguay, United States, and Uruguay Notes: catapult zeppelin combinations

Volume 31:

Number pages: 44
Name of Airship:  Graf Zeppelin
Dates of Contents: 1934-1935
Major Flights: South America, Christmas
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Paraguay, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, and Uruguay
Notes: catapult zeppelin combination

Volume 32:

Number pages: 45
Name of Airship: Graf Zeppelin, LZ129 Hindenburg
Dates of Contents: 1935-1936
Major Flights: South America, small Hindenburg flights
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Lichtenstein, Paraguay, Sweden, Switzerland, and United States
Notes: drop leaflets, passenger mail, TIPEX mail

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LZ129 Hindenburg Disaster Card (1993.2002.70) Volume 33

Volume 33:

Number pages: 44
Name of Airship: Hindenburg, LZ130 Graf Zeppelin II
Dates of Contents: 1936-1939
Major Flights: North America, South America, Olympic, Final
Countries Represented (dispatches and destinations): Austria, Brazil, Canada, England, El Salvador, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Switzerland, United States, Uruguay, and Vatican

Notes: Heinmuller family mail, passenger Douglas Fairbanks autograph, crew autographs, drop leaflets

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LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II Sudetenland flight on Zeppelin Company stationery (front) Volume 33
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LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II Sudetenland flight with crew autographs (reverse) Volume 33

Left row top to bottom: 1 Albert Sammt, 2 Hans Ladwig, 3 Heinrich Bauer, 4 Herbert Mielke, 5 G.vonMensenkampff, 6 Franz Bartschat, 7 Richard Müller, 8 Martin Christ, 9 Johann Geier, 10 Karl Nagel, 11 Oskar Fink, 12 Philipp Lenz, 13
Josef Hagnauer, 14 Oskar Rösch, 15 Eugen Dangel, 16 Adolf Fischer, 17 Karl Späth, 18 Alfons Schäfer, 19 Josef Ilg, 20 Joseph Braun, 21 Raphael Schädler, and 22 Karl Rebstein
Center: 23 Rudolf Sauter
Right row top to bottom: 24 Max Zabel, 25 Friedrich von Hassel, 26 Leo Freund, 27 Egon Schweikardt, 28 Gerhard Widuwilt, 29 Albert Thasler, 30 Bernhard Schnopp, 31 Fritz Grötzinger, 32 TBD, 33 Hans Freund, 34 Georg Holl, 35
Bruno Weber, 36 Hans Georg Hofele, 37 Eugen Gröber, 38 Alfred Grözinger, 39 Heinrich Kubis, 40 German Zettel, 41 Georg Mössle, 42 Eugen Schäuble, 43 August Deutschle, and 44 Ludwig Haller