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Title:

Wiley Post receives the Harmon Trophy for his flight around the world

Date of Original:

1933-1934

Identifier:

COP_17_0004_00120_001.tif

Permalink:

https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d3tm72168

Type:

Image

Caption:

"As Wiley Post, intrepid air ace, received the Harmon trophy for his record 7-day flight around the world in 1933. The presentation was made before thousands of World's Fair visitors in the Science Theater yesterday. (Friday, August 24th). Left to right are: Governor Horner of Illinois, L.P. Bonfouy, Post, Col. C.W. Kerwood, president of the League Internationale des aviateurs; Maj. James H. Doolittle, a former winner of the trophy; Col. Lafeton Whitney, president of the Chicago chapter, National Aeronautical Association, and Father James Organisciak, the 'Flying Priest,' who will represent the N.A.A. at the Gordon Bennett balloon races in Warsaw, Poland, next month."

Rights:

In copyright

Access:

Public access

Subject--Topic

Air pilots

Awards

Flights around the world

Subject--Name

Horner, Henry, 1878-1940

Post, Wiley, 1898-1935

Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993

Photographer:

Kaufmann & Fabry Co.

Form:

Photographs

Color:

Black and white

Extent:

7.5 x 9.5 in.

Building Name:

Science Theater

Collection Information

Collection:

Century of Progress records

Show more details:

Series:

Series 17: Iconographics

Box:

4

Folder:

120

Repository:

University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)

Repository Collection Type:

Manuscript Collections

Repository Location:

Richard J. Daley Library

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Funded by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant awarded by the Illinois State Library under Jesse White

Secretary of State.