Fokker C-2, Civil "America"
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
[Fokker C-2 "America" aircraft], bulk: circa 1920s
Item — Box Glass plates box 9, item: 376
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
With more than 250 cubic feet of material, including prints, negatives, transparencies and scrapbooks, the photographic component of the collection makes up the vast majority of the collection and is an incredible resource of documentary images of aircraft. The series is subdivided into five subseries: aircraft files, subject files, glass plates, scrapbooks and albums, and the Sommerich collection. The aircraft files are then subdivided by format: prints,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1920s
Herbert Brucker Film
Collection — Box Film Box 2, Reel: 1
Identifier: 2007-11-16-B
Contents of the Collection
The Herbert Brucker Film is a small collection containing one privately shot black-and-white film taken at Mitchell Field in Garden City, New York in 1927. The film is five minutes and 44 seconds long. The footage depicts several well-known aviation events and activities by famous aviators, such as Charles Lindbergh taking off in the "Spirit of St. Louis" for his transatlantic flight; the christening of "America," Richard E. Byrd's Fokker C-2; and James Doolittle performing...
Dates:
1927
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Florence McEvoy Photographs of Charles Lindbergh
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 004761]
Identifier: 2019-09-21
Contents of the Collection
The Florence McEvoy Photographs of Charles Lindbergh is a small collection comprised of seven black-and-white photographs taken at Roosevelt Field just prior to the start of Charles Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight. Six of the photographs were taken by Florence McEvoy, who lived in Rockville Centre, Long Island, and saw the aircraft, at nearby Roosevelt Airfield. Three of the prints depict Lindbergh's Ryan NYP aircraft, The Spirit of St. Louis. It is...
Dates:
1927 May 19
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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