Samuel P. Langley Gold Medal for Aerodromics Search this
Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group
Date:
1927
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.
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.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95, Box 16, Folder: 21; Record Unit 371, Box 2