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Title: Com'dr R. E. Byrd's Aeroplane
Date Created and/or Issued: 1926
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2011-0073.
View of single engine airplane with crowd of people at far side. Airplane shows lettering: "Wright Whirlywind Engines" at nose; "no. 1" at tail; "Josephine Ford Byrd Artic Expedition" at side and "FOK" under wing. Handwritten text below image: "Com'dr R. E. Byrd's Aeroplane / first to fly over the northpole / visiting Irwin Airport, Sacramento Calif. Nov. 2. 1926."
For similar view, see: accession no. 2008-0791
Earl R. Stratton;
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001429187CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Irwin Airport (Sacramento, Calif.)
Airplanes--California--Sacramento
Airports--California--Sacramento Metropolitan Area
Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento Metropolitan Area
Sacramento (Calif.)

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