Number of Images: 1; Color: Sepia; Size: 2.25w x 2.25h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Interior; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Interior
Photographic print
Exhibit
Date:
February 19, 1936
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
See Negative Numbers 32291-B and 91-3702 for other images of the plane.
Summary:
Suspended from the ceiling in the Arts and Industries Building is the Winnie Mae, a special Lockheed Model 5C Vega flown by famed aviator Wiley Post. The plane completed two around-the-world record flights and a series of special high-altitude substratospheric research flights. Three men stand looking up at the plane. One is leaning on a exhibit table. Exhibit cases hold coins from the Numismatics Exhibit and paintings on the walls are from the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art. The image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, and is included in a scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C. scenes. (Section A)
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7433, Box 3, Folder: Ruel P. Tolman Collection, Scrapbook II, 1