Records, 1927-1937.

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Records, 1927-1937.

Correspondence of Meade C. Dobson, brochures, list of contributors, speeches, and press releases concerning efforts to place a marker on the spot in Roosevelt Field from which Charles Lindbergh took off for his transatlantic flight to Paris in 1927.

ca. 75 items.

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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-...

Dobson, Meade C.

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Lindbergh Flight Commemoration Fund Committee.

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Roosevelt Field.

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