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Graf Zappelin, der lenkbare Luftschiffer : humoristisches Potpourri-Couplet

Pethke, Ernst. cmp, Schneider, Erich. arr, Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI · 1908 · Leipzig : Otto Dietrich · 1 picture

A German comic song sheet from 1908, published in Leipzig by Otto Dietrich, with music by Ernst Pethke arranged by Erich Schneider, celebrating the Zeppelin airship for a popular audience. The cropped picture shows a grinning man in a peaked cap with a moustache, gesturing with a gloved hand in front of bold lettering, in flat colour with a loose graphic style a designer could borrow for a retro poster or cartoon character.

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