Text from back of image: 'Capt. Maurice Rossi and Lieut. Paul Codos, the French aviators who successfully crossed the Atlantic from Paris to New York, were received at the City Hall, New York City, by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, May 29. Photo shows...
Text from back of image: 'Photo shows the intrepid French fliers, the first to conquer the non-stop westward flight from Paris, to New York, at the dinner given by the Board of Trade in Washington, after they visited President Herbert Hoover. Left...
Text from back of image: 'Hundreds were on hand to give a warm welcome to the three French aviators, Reginensi, Youge, and Lenier, who for six days wandered helplessly in the heart of the Sahara Desert after their plane had been forced down on a...
Watercolors of "modern" French chairs done by William Pahlmann while at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (later renamed Parsons School of Design) Paris Atelier, 1929.
Watercolor of "modern" French interior in Paris done by William Pahlmann while at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (later renamed Parsons School of Design) Paris Atelier, 1929.
Watercolor of "'modern" French interior in Paris done by William Pahlmann while at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (later renamed Parsons School of Design) Paris Atelier, 1929.
Air pilots; Airplane cockpits; Airplanes; Transcontinental flights;
Text from back of image: 'Pelletier D'Oisy, French long distance aviator, after hopping off with a companion on an attempt to reach Karachi, India on June 14th, found his plane nosing downard at Le Bourget Field, and in a few minutes the plane...
Text from back of image: 'Capt. Georges Kirsch and Lt. Antone Mourre, French aviators, who will attempt to fly from New York to Paris next year are visiting in Los Angeles. Capt. Kirsch held the world's altitude record of 11,000 meters in 1921, and...
Text from back of image: 'Photo shows - l to r: Dieudonne Coste, Mayor W. B. Harrisson of Louisville, and Maurice Bellonte at Louisville, KY, where the French fliers received a reception. After making a non-strop flight from New York to Dallas,...
Text from back of image: 'Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, trans Atlantic fliers left Curtiss Field Long Island for Washington on Sep. 7th where they will be the official guests of the French Embassy, and will have luncheon with...
Text from back of image: 'Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, French Paris-to-New York fliers, returned to Curtiss Airport, Sept. 9th, from their official reception in Washington, D.C. While en-route they dropped a wreath of dahlias, the gift of...
Text from back of image: 'Maurice Rossi (right), the pilot, and Paul Codos, the navigator of the French monoplane Le Brix, present a rather tired appearance at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, May 28, after being whisked there, accompanied...
Text from back of image: 'Refreshed after a night's rest, Paul Codos (left), and Maurice Rossi (right), gallant French flyers who landed in New York a day before, after a trans-Atlantic crossing from Paris, are shown at breakfast with Charles de...
Text from back of image: 'Maurice Rossi (left), Paul Codos (center), and Charles de Fontnouvelle, French Consul General in New York, reading congratulatory telegrams at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, the morning after the French flyers had...
Handwritten on back: "To P.S. du Pont by Pierre Donzelot. Irenee du Pont, Margaretta du Pont Copeland, P.S. du Pont, Pierre Donzelet, French cultural attache."
on back of print: "Matheson car is not in sight but is plowing through the bad road hauling this $10,000 French car by rope. The French car could not drive itself through the soft ground. 1907."
