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[Lindbergh on damaged left wing of airplane after accident at Hankow, China, Oct. 3, 1931] – Antique Wall Art

[Lindbergh on damaged left wing of airplane after accident at Hankow, China, Oct. 3, 1931], c1931 Oct. 28. — historic photograph
[Lindbergh on damaged left wing of airplane after accident at Hankow, China, Oct. 3, 1931], c1931 Oct. 28.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Charles Lindbergh is shown with the damaged left wing of his airplane after a mishap at Hankow, a Yangtze River port in central China, on October 3, 1931. That autumn Lindbergh was in China surveying possible air routes for Pan American Airways, a trip he made with his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The photograph was distributed by Wide World Photos, a news agency that supplied pictures to newspapers, though the date in the record is noted as unverified.

Created / publishedc1931 Oct. 28.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Wide World Photos. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,242 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-113618

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