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Spirit of St. Louis in flight – Vintage Print

Spirit of St. Louis in flight, 1927 — historic photograph
Spirit of St. Louis in flight, 1927. Historic photograph from the St. Louis 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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A window into the past: Spirit of St. Louis in flight, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Spirit of St. Louis in flight

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Named for the St. Louis businessmen who helped finance it, the Spirit of St. Louis was the single-engine monoplane Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic in May 1927, landing at Le Bourget outside Paris after about 33 hours in the air. The flight made him an international celebrity almost overnight and showed that a lone pilot could cross the ocean, helping turn commercial aviation into a serious business. The caption card dating this view is unverified, so its exact details are best read with some caution.

Created / published1927
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-112160

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