Charles Lindbergh photograph
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Title |
Charles Lindbergh photograph |
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Subject |
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974
Airports--Ohio--Columbus
Aviation--History
Port Columbus International Airport
Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture |
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Time Period |
1920s |
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Place |
Columbus (Ohio)
Franklin County (Ohio) |
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Description |
Charles Lindbergh climbing into the cockpit of a plane at Norton Field, Columbus, Ohio, on August 10, 1928. Lindbergh visited Columbus to support the building of an airport there. He was involved in designing a transcontinental network for Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT, which in 1930 merged with Western Air Express to become Trans World Airlines, or TWA), who hoped to secure government airmail contracts. Soon after this photograph, voters approved a bond issue to build Port Columbus Airport, and on October 6, 1928, Lindbergh chose Columbus as the eastern terminus of TAT’s transcontinental flights. The first flight arrived June 25, 1929. The dedication of Port Columbus was held July 8, 1929. |
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Creator |
Walter D. Nice for the Columbus Dispatch (Photographer) |
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Date of Original |
August 10, 1928 |
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Collection |
Columbus Dispatch Photograph Collection |
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Source |
P 245; Box 2, folder 16 |
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Format |
Picture
Black-and-white photograph |
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Submitting Institution |
Ohio History Connection |
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Rights |
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information |
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Type |
StillImage |
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File Name |
AL05640.tif |
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Image Height |
2568 |
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Image Width |
2568 |
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File Size |
15417612 Bytes |
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Date created |
2011-08-05 |
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