Following a dinner celebrating Gen. Doolittle's first all-instrument flight in 1929, Josephine Doolittle asked her guests to sign the white damask tablecloth that covered the dinner table and then embroidered over the names with black thread. She continued this tradition and collected hundreds of signatures of other aviation personalities.

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April 30, 2015

Photographer:

Jon Barrett

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A19740535000

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Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

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Smithsonian Institution

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