Presentation of Orteig Prize Check
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ID: SIA Acc. 11-008 [OPA-971R1]
Creator: Smithsonian Institution Photographic Services Division
Form/Genre: Black-and-white negatives
Date: 1967
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-008, Box 05, Image No. OPA-971R1
Presentation of Orteig Prize check, a $25,000 illuminated check awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh after his successful trans-Atlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis" in 1927, to the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), formerly known as National Air Museum, with NASM Director S. Paul Johnston and Assistant Secretary James C. Bradley, in the Arts and Industries Building.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-008, Box 05, Image No. OPA-971R1
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Black-and-white negatives
SIA Acc. 11-008 [OPA-971R1]
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