Ernest Brousseau aviation collection, 19--.

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Ernest Brousseau aviation collection, 19--.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173176660

Photographs celebrating Old Orchard Beach's 1977 "Fly Day USA" reflecting the surprise landing on the beach by Charles Lindbergh in 1929; together with two scrapbooks, created by Brousseau, pertaining to Lindbergh's landing and clippings relating to the 1935 crash which took the lives of aviators, Will Rogers and Wiley Post.

5 linear ft.

Harmon Museum/Old Orchard Beach Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6919764

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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-...

Rogers, Will, 1879-1935

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The youngest of eight children, William Penn Adair Rogers was born on November 4, 1879 at Rogers Ranch in Oologah, Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma). His parents, Clement Vann Rogers and Mary Schrimsher, were partly of Cherokee descent. While growing up on the family ranch, Will worked with cattle and learned to ride and lasso from a young age. He grew so talented with a rope, in fact, that he was placed in the Guiness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once. One went ar...

Fly Day USA (1977 : Old Orchard Beach, Me.)

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Post, Wiley, 1898-1935

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Brousseau, Ernest A., 1924-1992

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Letter carrier and historian, of Old Orchard Beach, Me.; president of Old Orchard Beach Historical Society. From the description of Ernest Brousseau aviation collection, 19--. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173176660 ...