About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0548
  • TitleSpirit of St. Louis
  • SummaryClose-up view of Spirit of St. Louis, the airplane in which Charles Lindbergh flew alone, non-stop, across the Atlantic Ocean, from Roosevelt Airfield in Garden City, Long Island, to Paris in 1927.
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 2 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped and retouched. On verso: date inscribed: July 21/38. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectLindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 ; Spirit of St. Louis (Airplane) ; Airplanes -- New York (State) -- Garden City
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationGarden City (N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Portraits: Lindbergh, Charles A. Col.: Flight to Paris