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Title	Lindbergh Chart Time zone chart of the world 1927
Full Title	Time zone chart of the world
Creator	United States. Hydrographic Office
Publication Date	1927
Map Publisher	United States. Hydrographic Office
Subject	Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 Time--Systems and standards--Maps World maps
Notes	Annotated by Charles A. Lindbergh showing New York to Paris flight route and note in corner. "No. 5192." Includes "Explanation". "Used for laying out route for New York to Paris flight, San Diego, California, 1927, C.A.L." -- handwritten by Charles A. Lindbergh in the lower right corner.
Essay Description of Item	Annotated to read: “Used for laying out route for New York to Paris flight, San Diego, California, 1927 C.A.L.” While Ryan Airlines, Inc. of San Diego was constructing Lindbergh’s plane, Spirit of St. Louis, he was busy obtaining charts and plotting his course (Lindbergh 1927, p. 201-202). In order to obtain charts of the North Atlantic Ocean, Lindbergh had to fly to San Pedro, California. In his book The Spirit of St. Louis (1953), Lindbergh describes purchasing a number of charts at a store in San Pedro including this Time zone chart of the world: “The salesman pulls out two oblong sheets. They're Mercator's projections and –yes, I'm in luck—they extend inland far enough to include New York and Paris. Then, like stumbling over a nugget of gold, I see a gnomonic projection covering them both…Rummaging around still farther, I locate a time-zone chart of the world, a chart of magnetic variation, and others showing prevailing winds over the Atlantic for April, May, and June. I buy them all” (Lindbergh 1953, p. 93). Lindbergh does not give us the exact number of charts he bought at the store in San Pedro. However, it appears that he purchased the two "Mercator's projections" charts upon which he plotted his intended course in 100 mile segments. These two charts, now at the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, were actually taken on the flight. The three charts listed in this work and preserved in the AGS Library also appear to have been purchased in San Pedro. The AGS Library also has a fragment cut from the northeastern sheet of the charts taken on the flight and a Great circle sailing chart of the North Pacific Ocean, 1922. Although the charts were given to the library and initialed by Lindbergh, no navigational data was plotted. Lindbergh plotted his route on this Time zone chart of the World in 500 mile-long segments that follow the great circle route from New York to Paris. The chart also illustrates the number of hours lost, in this case five, when traveling east.
Type	image
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library - Maps
Original Item Description	1 map : col., annotated ; 67 x 119 cm.
Original Item ID	(AGS) (RARE) 050 A-1927 (Framed)
Language	en
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital ID	am007837
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Date.Digitized	2009-01-01
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

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