Amelia Earhart Meets Richard Byrd aboard S. S. President Roosevelt, Returning from the Transatlantic Flight, July 6, 1928
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Explorer Richard E. Byrd was among the many notable people eager to congratulate Amelia Earhart on her 1928 flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart, riding as a passenger with pilot Wilmer Stultz and mechanic Louis Gordon, made the crossing in a Fokker F.VII Tri-Motor airplane. Byrd used a similar Fokker on his pioneering flight to the North Pole in 1926.
Explorer Richard E. Byrd was among the many notable people eager to congratulate Amelia Earhart on her 1928 flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart, riding as a passenger with pilot Wilmer Stultz and mechanic Louis Gordon, made the crossing in a Fokker F.VII Tri-Motor airplane. Byrd used a similar Fokker on his pioneering flight to the North Pole in 1926.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
06 July 1928
Keywords
United States, New York, New York
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, Jr., 1888-1957
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1629.114
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 10 in
Width: 8 in
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