Charles A. Lindbergh collection, 1927-1977.

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Charles A. Lindbergh collection, 1927-1977.

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Photographs, postcards, scrapbooks, and other materials celebrating Lindberg's transatlantic flight in 1927 and his landing on Old Orchard Beach, Me., July 24, 1927, thirty-seven days after returning from his transatlantic flight, after which he toured throughout the U.S., making an unscheduled stop at Old Orchard Beach due to heavy fog, while trying to find the airport at Scarborough, Me.

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Harmon Museum/Old Orchard Beach Historical Society

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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-...

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