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- Collection:
- Bill Wilson Photographs, 1938-1979, undated
- Title:
- Eastern Air Lines Crash, Flight 21
- Creator:
- Wilson, Bill (William Bryan), 1914-1993
- Date of Original:
- 1940/1950
- Subject:
- Airline industry
Airplanes--1940-1950
Accidents--Georgia--Atlanta
Aircraft accidents--Georgia--Atlanta
Aircraft--Georgia--Atlanta
Victims--Georgia--Atlanta
Hospitals--Georgia--Atlanta
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon, 1890-1973
Piedmont Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker recovering at Piedmont Hospital after the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 21 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 21, was a Douglas DC-3 aircraft that clipped a tree and crashed in a pine grove south of Candler Field in Atlanta, Georgia. Sixteen of the 25 on board were killed. Among the injured was Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I hero and (at the time) president of Eastern Air Lines. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 99.146.02
ahc099146002a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/Wilson/id/310
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/Wilson:310/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Bill Wilson Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights: