About This Item

  • TitleAmerica
  • Call NumberPORT_0165
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0166), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of America, the airplane used in Richard E. Byrd's flight to Antarctica in 1927. 0165 includes a small group, and 0166 a large group, of spectators. 0166 also includes a oval-shaped portrait insert of Byrd in foreground.
  • Date1929
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDates inscribed on verso: 0165: June 22/27; 0166: June 29/27. Both images are retouched; 0166 is cropped. Printed on recto: 0165: "Eagle photo" in lower left corner; 0166: "P & A" in lower right corner. Title from inscription below image on recto.
  • SubjectByrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 ; Airplanes -- United States ; Explorers -- United States
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationAntarctica
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.