Exceptional archive related to Charles Lindbergh’s massive honorary reception at the University of Washington Stadium in Seattle, Washington, on September 13, 1927, held in honor of his recent nonstop solo transatlantic flight between New York and Paris in his ‘Spirit of St. Louis’ monoplane. The archive is highlighted by a bold fountain pen signature, “C. A. Lindbergh, Sept. 13, ‘27,” on an off-white 10 x 7.5 album page with three affixed 10-cent stamps honoring ‘Lindbergh Air Mail.’
Also included are two official “Lindbergh Reception Committee” passes for the reception, the reception’s official four-page program, a silk “Lindbergh Reception” ribbon, and a group of 10 beautiful original vintage photographs documenting the event; the photos, glossy and matte-finish, range in size from 5.5 x 3.5 to 13.5 x 10.5, and contain images of Lindbergh flying the ‘Spirit of St. Louis’ into Sand Point Field, being driven into the packed University Stadium, and standing at the podium before delivering a speech to the gathered 25,000 spectators. In overall fine condition. Accompanied by an impressive scrapbook compiled by Dudley Knox Randal containing dozens of newspaper clippings from “The Seattle Times of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s Flight from New York / Paris, May 21, 1927.”
In May 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh made the first solo nonstop flight between New York and Paris in his plane the ‘Spirit of St. Louis,’ a feat that instantaneously made him a worldwide celebrity. He visited Seattle on September 13 and 14, 1927, where excited citizens presented him with a monogrammed gold ring and arranged many festivities. After flying into Sand Point, the yacht ‘Alarwee’ took him to the University Stadium where he delivered an address to a crowd of approximately 25,000 fans, promoting aviation and airports. In addition to Seattle's first ‘ticker-tape’ style parade, a mass of 30,000 schoolchildren met him in Volunteer Park to celebrate.
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