Charles Lindbergh Autographed Photograph

This collection consists of one 6 x 8 inch black and white photograph of Charles A. Lindbergh posed in front of the Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis. The photograph is autographed by Lindbergh to "Captain Alan F. Winslow, Sincerely, Charles A. Lindbergh, Mexico City, Dec. 27, 1927."

On May 21, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974) completed the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis (r/n N-X-211) 5,810 kilometers (3,610 miles) between Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, and Paris, France, in 33 hours, 30 minutes. With this flight, Lindbergh won the $25,000 prize offered by New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first aviator to fly an aircraft directly across the Atlantic between New York and Paris. When he landed at Le Bourget Field in Paris, Lindbergh became a world hero who would remain in the public eye for decades. Following his historic New York to Paris flight, Lindbergh embarked on a good will tour of various cities in the United States and abroad. On December 13, 1927, Lindbergh took off from Bolling Field in Washington, D.C. in the Spirit of St. Louis on a nonstop overnight flight to Mexico, arriving midafternoon at Balbuena Field in Mexico City on December 14, 1927. Alan Francis Winslow (1895-1933), a distinguished World War I veteran pilot of the Lafayette Escadrille and the US Army's 94th Aero Squadron, was serving at the time as First Secretary under Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow of the United States Embassy to Mexico; Morrow was the father of Anne Spencer Morrow, who Lindbergh would marry in 1929. Lindbergh departed Mexico City on December 28, 1927, for Guatemala City, the next stop on his Central American good will tour.