Title from caption on object: “Lindbergh Arrives in Army Plane as 7,500,000 Throng Roars Welcome"
June 13, 1927
Artist
Publisher, American, 1881 - 1940
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.7 × 19.1 cm (9 5/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.285
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite underlined: 6311; upper left stamped in purple ink: PERSONALITIES; upper left: 22 JUL 1927; lower center Underwood & Underwood copyright stamp in purple ink; bottom center printed in orange ink on applied paper: and / UNDERWOOD / Photo by / UNDERWOOD / and / UNDERWOOD / Photo by / UNDERWOOD / and / UNDERWOOD / Photo by / UNDERWOOD / and; bottom center printed in black ink on applied paper: S/7816B4 LINDBERGH RECEPTION / LINDBERGH ARRIVES IN ARMY PLANE AS 7,500,000 / THRONG ROARS WELCOME / NEW YORK--Greeted by a crowd estimated at 7,500,000 / persons, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, New York-to / Paris flyer, received the greatest reception ever / accorded a hero with the possible exception Admiral / Dewey. From the time he arrived in the bay off the / Battery in a Curtiss 0-1 pursuit plane, the flyer's / line of march--six-mile tour of triumph--was lined / by dense crowds waiting to catch a glimpse of the / boy who captured their imaginations. / 7816B5--PHOTO SHOWS: Dazzling confetti downpour / and a portion of the dense crowds waiting to greet / the flyer. / WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE