Title	Charles Lindbergh photograph
Subject	Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 Airports--Ohio--Columbus Aviation--History Port Columbus International Airport Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture
Time Period	1920s
Place	Columbus (Ohio) Franklin County (Ohio)
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.
Creator	Walter D. Nice for the Columbus Dispatch (Photographer)
Date of Original	August 10, 1928
Collection	Columbus Dispatch Photograph Collection
Source	P 245; Box 2, folder 16
Format	Picture Black-and-white photograph
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
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
Type	StillImage
File Name	AL05640.tif
Image Height	2568
Image Width	2568
File Size	15417612 Bytes
Date created	2011-08-05

Charles Lindbergh photograph

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