History of Air Flight
Photo-process Prints by Charles H. Hubbell

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First Transcontinental Night Air Mail - 1921
San Francisco to New York City
Pilot, Jack Knight
U.S. Post Office Dept.
De Havilland 4

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California To Australia - 1928
Squadron Leader Charles Kingsford-Smith
"The Southern Cross"
Fokker Monoplane

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"Dawn-to Dusk" Transcontinental
New York to San Francisco
Lieut. Russell L'Maughan, U.S. Army
Curtiss PW-8

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Four-Continent Flight - 1927
Europe, Africa, South, and North America
Marchesi de Pinedo, Italy Savoia S-55 Flying Boat

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Non - Stop Refueling Flight - 1930
647 Hours, Forest O'Brine and Dale Jackson
"The Greater St. Louis"
Curtiss Robin

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New York to Paris - 1927
Charles A. Lindbergh
"The Spirit of St. Louis"
Ryan Monoplane

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First Pan-American Good Will Flight - 1926
Maj. Herbert A. Darque, U.S. Army, In Command
Loening Amphibians

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Paris to New York - 1930
Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte, France
Breguet "Question Mark"

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First Round-the-World Flight - 1924
Liet. Lowell H. Smith and Lieut. Eric H. Nelson, U.S. Army
Douglas "Cruisers"

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First South Pole Flight - 1929
Com. Richard E. Byrd
"The Floyd Bennett"
Ford Tri-Motor

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First Thompson Trophy Race Winner - 1929
National Air Races, Cleveland
Douglas Davis
Travelair "Mystery Ship"

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First Transcontinental Passenger Service - 1930 Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc.
Ford Tri-Motor


Charles H. Hubbell (1899-1971) (after)
History of Air Flight
Edwards & Deutsch Lithographing Co., Chicago, Illinois: c. 1942
Photo-process prints
13 x 16 1/2 inches each
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Prints after a series of 12 paintings of famous events in early aviation. They were created by artist Charles H. Hubbell for Thompson Products, Inc., a manufacturer of automotive and aircraft parts in Cleveland, Ohio. The company sponsored the Thompson Trophy Air Race, which began in 1929, and for over 30 years beginning in 1937, engaged Hubbell to produce illustrated promotional calendars. In advertising the prints, the lithographer quoted the artist's endorsement of them: "They've got everything I put into the [original oil painting] pictures."

Charles H. Hubbell was one of the foremost commerical aviation artists in the U.S., with more than 500 paintings to his credit, a body of work that is an illustrated compendium of aviation history. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he entered the Naval Air Service during World War I. Stationed in Buffalo, he redesigned airplanes at the Curtiss airplane factory. After the war he returned to Cleveland and graduated from the Cleveland School of Art. He received a pilot's license in 1927. In 1934, Hubbell was commissioned by Fred Crawford, chairman of Thompson Products, to paint past winners of the Thompson Trophy Air Race. Thus began a long career as Thompson/TRW's free-lance artist, for whom he produced an annual illustrated calendar from 1937 to 1972. Today many of his paintings are in the permanent collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society's Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum in Cleveland.

Reference:

"Charles Herman Hubbell." The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. 18 July 1997. http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=HCH1 (23 January 2003).