Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="377" caption="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, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 16 Folder 21; Record Unit 371 Box 2,
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