Lindbergh Receives Langley Medal

Summary

Presentation of Samuel P. Langley Medal for Aerodromes to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh at the annual meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, December 8, 1927. Standing from left to right: Alexander Wetmore (Assistant Secretary), Charles G. Abbot (Secretary), Representative Walter H. Newton, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Representative R. Walton Moore, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, Frederick A. Delano, Chief Justice William H. Taft (Chancellor). Seated from left to right: Representative Albert Johnson, Senator Woodbridge N. Ferris, Senator Reed Smoot.

Subject

• Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
• Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) b. 1872
• Newton, Walter Hughes
• Robinson, Joseph Taylor 1872-1937
• Moore, R. Walton
• Lindbergh, Charles A (Charles Augustus) 1902-1974
• Delano, Frederic Adrian
• Taft, William H. (William Howard) 1857-1930
• Ferris, Woodbridge Nathan
• Smoot, Reed 1862-1941
• Board of Regents
• Samuel P. Langley Gold Medal for Aerodromics

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Original negative number is 15866 & A15866, but that negative has been lost. Featured in TORCH, September 1974. Also found in True, THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Smithsonian Scientific Series I, 1929, plate 271.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95, Box 16, Folder: 21; Record Unit 371, Box 2

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1927

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Johnson, Albert
• Secretariats
• Awards
• Celebrities and Dignitaries
• Secretaries
• Rewards (Prizes, etc.)
• Aeronautics
• Medals
• Aeronautics--Awards

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group

ID Number

2002-12171

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group; Medium: Photographic print

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