Charles A. Lindbergh Photographs 1927-1941

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Charles A. Lindbergh Photographs 1927-1941

Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) was an American aviator who made the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. He was married to Anne Spencer Morrow, daughter of American ambassador to Mexico Dwight Morrow. Their son, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in 1932. The collection consists of 562 black and white prints of Charles A. Lindbergh; Anne Morrow Lindbergh; and principals associated with the 1927 New York-Paris flight, various Lindbergh trips abroad, and the Lindbergh kidnapping.

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Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...