Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile flight across the Polar Sea

Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile flight across the Polar Sea
Title: Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile flight across the Polar Sea
Date Created/Published: c1926.
Summary: Photographs show preparations, take-off of airship Norge (N1) for first flight to cross the Polar Sea from Spitsbergen over the North Pole to Teller, Alaska, April-May 1926. Special hangar built for the Norge at Kings Bay, Spitsbergen Island, Norway; in flight with members of the crew, including Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, in rigging; tractor driven by Lt. Bernt Balchen pulling the Norge in from mooring mast; portraits of the airship designer, Umberto Nobile; ice-locked harbor at Kings Bay; dismantled airship, stripped of canvas; etc. Also, crew members arriving in Alaska; Amundsen voting in Nome, Alaska, after the flight.
Notes:
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Photographs copyrighted 1926 by the New York Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and International Newsreel, and others.
Images include captions.
For further caption information, see: Air Pioneering in the Arctic : The Two Polar Flights of Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, c1929 (LC call no.: G700 1926 .E4).
This record contains unverified, old data from shelflist card, with subsequent revisions.
Subjects:
Nobile, Umberto,--1885-1978--Travel--Arctic regions.
Amundsen, Roald,--1872-1928--Travel--Arctic regions.
Ellsworth, Lincoln,--1880-1951--Travel--Arctic regions.
Balchen, Bernt,--1899-1973--Travel--Arctic regions.
Airships--Italian--Norway--Spitsbergen Island--1920-1930.
Hangars--Norway--Spitsbergen Island--1920-1930.
Discovery & exploration--Arctic regions--1920-1930.
Aeronautics--Arctic regions--1920-1930.
Firsts--Arctic regions--1920-1930.
Group portraits--1920-1930.
Photographic prints--1920-1930.
Portrait photographs--1920-1930.
Bookmark /2003653207/
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