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Outstanding CHARLES LINDBERGH Boldly Autographed Sepia Tone Photograph

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:2,000.00 USD Estimated At:2,400.00 - 2,800.00 USD
Outstanding CHARLES LINDBERGH Boldly Autographed Sepia Tone Photograph
Autographs
Outstanding Charles A. Lindbergh Signed Photograph
CHARLES LINDBERGH (1902-1974). Historic American Aviator, Author, Inventor, Explorer and Social Activist.
Exceptional and extremely handsome Sepia-Tone Photograph Signed, "C.A. Lindbergh", measuring 8" x 11", Choice Crisp Near Mint. Photograph’s name and address written on the bottom white edge selvage. This is a wonderful Head-and-shoulders formal portrait of the dashing young aviator, nicely signed at the center right on the image just above his shoulder, "C.A. Lindbergh". Tipped to a slightly larger tan mounting card for display. A classic and stunning example, truly superb for framing and display.
Charles Lindbergh became a hero overnight after his historic 33 1/2 hour solo non-stop transatlantic flight from New York's Roosevelt Field to Le Bourget Air Field in Paris (May 20- 21, 1927) in his Ryan monoplane - “The Spirit of St. Louis” - which won him the Orteig Prize (given by Raymond Orteig) of $25,000, as well as the Congressional Medal of Honor.

In 1932, his son Charles was kidnapped and murdered, which led to a federal law against kidnapping, popularly known as The Lindbergh Act. From 1935-39, Lindbergh lived in Europe and assisted Dr. Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), Nobel Prize-winning French surgeon and biologist, in the construction of the perfusion pump, used in keeping organs alive outside the body. With Lindbergh, Carrel authored the book The Culture of Organs (1938). His autobiography, The Spirit of St. Louis (1953), won a Pulitzer Prize.