Description: 1929 ORIGINAL HISTORICAL PHOTO TYPE 1, CHARLES LINDBERGH AND WIFE WITH AMELIA EARHART. RARELY SEEN TOGETHER IN PHOTOS. Type writer clipping glued on the back which was very typical of the time from the Press. "Lindy Flies - City of Washington. A memorable chapter in the history of America's newest and most thrilling industry, commercial aviation, was written indelibly today when the first two groups of passengers of the T.A.T. were landed safely at Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale. Col. Lindbergh made a perfect landing with the City of Washington! Gloria Swanson, motion picture star broke a bottle of grape juice over thee plane's nose, formally christening the craft. Photo shows (left to right) SW. Higgins, Col. Edgar S. Gorrell, U. Grant Borden, Chauncey Lamb, Alberta Garthwaite, Amelia Earhart, Mrs. G. B. Putnam, Dan Schaeffer, Betty Brainerd, Mrs. Charles Lindbergh and Col. Charles Lindbergh". The first leg on the Pennsylvania Railroad departed from New York City at 6:05pm Eastern time and travelled overnight to Columbus, Ohio. There, passengers boarded a Ford Trimotor aircraft at what is now John Glenn Columbus International Airport, and flew to Waynoka, Oklahoma, an 11-hour flight that required four brief stops. At Waynoka, passengers boarded a Santa Fe Railway train for a second overnight rail trip to Clovis, New Mexico. There, they took a second Ford Trimotor flight to Los Angeles, with three stops along the way, eventually arriving at 5:52pm Pacific time at the Grand Central Airport in Glendale. Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) was an airline founded in 1928 by Clement Melville Keys that merged in 1930 with Western Air Express to form what became TWA. Keys enlisted the help of Charles Lindbergh to design a transcontinental network to get government airmail contracts. Lindbergh established numerous airports across the country in this effort. Type I – A 1st generation photograph, developed from the original negative, during the period (within approximately two years of when the picture was taken).
Price: 2499 USD
Location: Woodside, New York
End Time: 2024-09-27T22:43:07.000Z
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Type: Photograph
Year of Production: 1927
Image Orientation: Landscape
Size: 6.5 x 10
Theme: Aviation, Travel & Transportation
Image Color: Black & White
Featured Person/Artist: Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindberg
Time Period Manufactured: 1925-1949
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: Aircraft, Aviatrix, Pilot, Travel & Transportation, Women
Vintage: Yes
