About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0546
  • TitleCharles Lindbergh & his mother
  • SummaryStudio portrait of Charles Lindbergh and his mother. Lindbergh flew alone in the airplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean, from Roosevelt Airfield in Garden City, Long Island, to Paris in 1927. The location is unknown and the image is not dated.
  • Date[1927?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsphotographsportraits
  • NoteCropped and retouched. On verso: date inscribed: 1947. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectLindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 ; Air pilots
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Portraits: Lindbergh, Charles A. Col.: Family