Aviator Charles Lindbergh honored in Washington DC. President Calvin Coolidge presents the Hubbard Gold Medal, the highest award of the National Geographic Society, to Lindberg. Officials seated during the ceremony. The Hubbard Medal. Lindbergh gives a speech.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh prepares to leave for Mexico. Lindbergh with Speaker Nicholas Longworth and other dignitaries after receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor. Lindbergh shakes hands with Longworth. He talks to Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation F Trubee Davison seated in the rear cockpit at Bolling Field. Lindbergh and an officer study the route to Mexico City.
A 1920's film on advances in transportation depicts men walking to work in the early 1900s. Footage is 1920s, but actors are wearing very early 1900's fashions and depicting that earlier period. A man and a woman stand at their urban house house doorstep as the man prepares to leave for work. Women on their doorsteps of their houses after men leave. Men walking to work. Camera slowly pans from street level upward showing the Fendall Building, a law office building, at the corner of Indiana Avenue and 4 1/2 Street NW, Washington, DC (which is now 300 Indiana Avenue NW, Washington DC. That address was later the site of the "Municipal Center Building" and today is the site of the Henry J. Daly Building that houses the Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters. The Fendall Building was torn down in 1931-1932). Dramatized view of workers and officials entering and leaving the Fendall Building via a stair into a door with sign "Fendall Building" above the door.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh also known as Lone Eagle in Washington D.C. as French Ambassador to U.S. Paul Claudel presents him Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Planes in flight overhead the Memphis dock in Washington DC, United States. Steamers ad boats at the dock. A large crowd at the dock, American flag hoisted. A ship at the dock as it gives out smoke.
The USS Memphis docks in Washington Navy Yard, Washington DC, United States. Charles Lindbergh on board the ship with sailors in the background. A large crowd awaits his arrival after his successful first Trans Atlantic flight. He disembarks from the ship. Lindbergh and his mother in a car leave for Washington Memorial. Postmaster General Harry S New also gets into the car. Planes in flight and airship Los Angles circle overhead. Soldiers and cavalry units in a parade.