The Vin-Fiz in the A&I Building
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ID: 91-3700
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: Unknown, probably the early 1950s
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder 1
The Vin-Fiz hanging from the ceiling of in the Arts and Industries Building. The Vin-Fiz was "the first Aeroplane to Fly Across the American Continent, 1911. Made by the Wright Brothers, Type 'E-X,' piloted by Calbraith P. Rodgers from the Atlantic to the Pacific in Eighty-Four Days. Gift of the Carnegie Museum in Conjunction with the Family of Calbraith Rogers. The right hand propeller is the gift of S. F. Duree of Long Beach, California and is from the plane in which Rogers was killed." (quotation from Scrapbook)
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
This is in a scrapbook in the front of Box 41 entitled 'Some of the Prime Exhibits in the Smithsonian Institution, U.S. National Museum and National Air Museum. Prepared for Mr. J. E. Graf by the National Air Museum.' Quotation in caption is from Scrapbook.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder 1
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Unknown, probably the early 1950s
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91-3700
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print