President Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge at the Christening of Dirigible "U.S.S. Los Angeles."
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintPresident Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) and First Lady Grace Coolidge(1879-1957) at the christening of the dirigible U.S.S. Los Angeles, Bolling Field, November 25, 1924. Left to right: Olive Doolittle Wilbur (1867-1942), wife of the Secretary of the Navy; Grace Goodhue Coolidge (1879-1957); Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th President of the United States; Curtis Dwight Wilbur (1867-1954), U.S. Secretary of the Navy; and William Adger Moffett (1869-1933), Chief of the Army Air Service. Just visible behind Grace Coolidge, with his right arm pointing upward is Captain Adolphus Andrews (1879-1948), Naval Aide to President Coolidge.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2017-003782
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Bolling Field (Washington, D.C.)
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2017-003782]
Photographic prints; 3 x 4.5