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[Grover Whalen (left) seated on back of open car, with Howard Hughes (waving) and Albert I. Lodwick during a ticker tape parade up Broadway, New York City] – Antique Wall Art

[Grover Whalen (left) seated on back of open car, with Howard Hughes (waving) and Albert I. Lodwick during a ticker tape parade up Broadway, New York City] — historic photograph
[Grover Whalen (left) seated on back of open car, with Howard Hughes (waving) and Albert I. Lodwick during a ticker tape parade up Broadway, New York City]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Grover Whalen (left) seated on back of open car, with Howard Hughes (waving) and Albert I. Lodwick during a ticker tape parade up Broadway, New York City], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Grover Whalen (left) seated on back of open car, with Howard Hughes (waving) and Albert I. Lodwick during a ticker tape parade up Broadway, New York City]

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Grover Whalen, the city's official greeter, rides in the open car beside Howard Hughes, who is waving to the crowd, and navigator Albert I. Lodwick. The parade honored Hughes's 1938 round-the-world flight, which he completed in under four days, one of the most publicized aviation feats of the decade. Ticker tape parades were the city's standard way to welcome heroes, and this one drew huge crowds along lower Broadway. The photograph was taken in 1938 and printed again in 1951, so the print records both the event and the later interest in it.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1951, [from a photograph taken in 1938]
SubjectsHughes, Howard,--1905-1976--Commemoration--New York (State)--New York. Lodwick, Albert I.,--1904-1961. Whalen, Grover A. (Grover Aloysius),--1886-1962. Ticker tape parades--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,276 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-204798

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