Coolidge confers Cong. Medal on Comdr. Byrd & machinists flag of Bennett, 3/19/27 – Vintage Photo Print
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(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Coolidge confers Cong. Medal on Comdr. Byrd & machinists flag of Bennett, 3/19/27. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Coolidge confers Cong. Medal on Comdr. Byrd & machinists flag of Bennett, 3/19/27
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Calvin Coolidge presents a Congressional medal to Commander Richard E. Byrd, with a flag associated with Floyd Bennett, the machinist and aviator who flew with Byrd. The honor recognized the 1926 flight over the North Pole, which made Byrd and Bennett widely known in the United States. The National Photo Company worked in Washington, D.C., during these years and recorded many official ceremonies, so the picture offers a useful view of how the government honored aviation pioneers in the late 1920s. The glass negative shows the streaks and surface blemishes typical of aging coatings on glass plates from this period.
| Created / published | [19]27 March 19. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch four. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,648 × 4,531 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-246014 |
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