Amelia Earhart Christens the "City of New York," Inaugurating Two-Day Transcontinental Air/Rail Service, 1929
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Amelia Earhart, already famous for the 1928 flight that made her the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, helped inaugurate transcontinental airline service in 1929. She posed with a Ford Tri-Motor at New York City's Pennsylvania Station. This early service had passengers traveling by train at night, and by airplane during daylight. Total travel time to California was 51 hours.
Amelia Earhart, already famous for the 1928 flight that made her the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, helped inaugurate transcontinental airline service in 1929. She posed with a Ford Tri-Motor at New York City's Pennsylvania Station. This early service had passengers traveling by train at night, and by airplane during daylight. Total travel time to California was 51 hours.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
07 July 1929
Keywords
United States, New York, New York
Whalen, Grover A. (Grover Aloysius), 1886-1962
Transcontinental Air Transport
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.O.4828
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in
Inscriptions
Writing in ink on back: Aircraft Ford Tri-Motor / Penn Station N.Y.C. July 7, 1929 / Amelia Earhart christening the/ "City of New York". Grover Whalen / at left. Amelia was a passenger on inaugural / flight westward.
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