Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: OWEN
Event Date: 1929-05
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.288940

Inscriptions:
Captions: Verso: Before taking off from San Diego for St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh posed for this historic photo. H.J. Vander Linde, later Ryan Aeronautical Company factory manager, is shown atop plane, fueling it through [a] funnel. Others are left to right, O.R. McNeal, welding foreman; George Hammond, student mechanic pilot; [Charles] Lindberg; Donald Hall, the Chief Engineer, later a civilian engineer at San Diego Naval Air Station; and the late A.J. Edwards, who was then sales manager of Ryan Airlines, Inc.Markings:Verso: Before taking off from San Diego for St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh posed for this historic photo. H.J. Vander Linde, later Ryan Aeronautical Company factory manager, is shown atop plane, fueling it through [a] funnel. Others are left to right, O.R. McNeal, welding foreman; George Hammond, student mechanic pilot; [Charles] Lindberg; Donald Hall, the Chief Engineer, later a civilian engineer at San Diego Naval Air Station; and the late A.J. Edwards, who was then sales manager of Ryan Airlines, Inc.

Tagasauris Keywords: Aircraft; Airplane; Arts, culture and entertainment; Banner; Boot; Charles Lindbergh; Chief engineer; Day; Full-Length Portrait; Group of people; Group of people; Jacket; Male; Mid adult; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Propeller; Ryan Aeronautical; Sign; Spirit of St. Louis; Transportation
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: PERSONALITIES / L
Retouching: N