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Lot 867

LINDBERGH, Charles A. (1902-1974). Charles A. Lindbergh Arch...

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LINDBERGH, Charles A. (1902-1974). Charles A. Lindbergh Archive. Small archive of documents and photographs associated with Charles Lindbergh. Includes copy of 1942 letter to Lindbergh from Henry Woodhouse congratulating him on the birth of his child, on behalf of the Aerial League of America. In the letter Woodhouse names all aviation pioneers with whom he associated, including a claim that as a teenager he worked with Alberto Santos Dumont prior and during his pioneering flight of 1901, together with a 6pp manuscript titled ?How An Unknown Barnstormer, a Young Flying Fool Captured the Word Stage Ten Years Ago and Became the Famed Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh?, sheet music titled ?Lone Eagle? (Lindy to Mexico), ?When Lindy Comes Home? by George M. Cohan, ?Chamberlin and Lindy?, Lindbergh ?our Hero? RPPC, mailed with C-10 Lindbergh airmail commemorative stamp, 13 pp 1929 Carnegie Institute of Washington publication titled ?Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh Aid Archeologists? part I The Aerial Survey of the Pueblo Region and Part II ? The Aerial Survey of the Maya Region.? Together with vintage photographs of the Lindberghs, various receptions, the ?Spirit of St. Louis,? and telegrams from Mr. Lindbergh?s mother to Woodhouse, and to Gov. Al Smith of NY and others. Quantity. Largest photo 8 x 10?. Good.