Convention Badge
Object Details
- Description
- Purple guest ribbon from an event in Kill Devil Hills, NC, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' flight.
- The Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association was formed in 1927 by North Carolina business and civic leaders who wanted to preserve the original site of the Wright brothers’ flights of December 17, 1903.
- The Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association, in coordination with the National Aeronautical Association, organized a ceremony to commemorate the Wrights with a large gathering and the laying of a temporary marker on the site where a more permanent monument would eventually go. The crowd on December 17, 1928, included Orville Wright, Amelia Earhart, Secretary of War Dwight Davis, 200 delegates from the International Civil Aeronautics Conference, and around 2000 others.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1928
- Object number
- 1982.0157.787
- Type
- Labor Unions & Associations Material
- Medium
- Fabric (silk?)
- Place
- North Carolina
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- Benjamin B. Lipsner Airmail Collection
- Record ID
- npm_1982.0157.787
- Usage
- CC0
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