Artifact Details

Title

Fairchild, Sherman M.

Catalog Number

102709915

Type

Still image

Description

Includes Fairchild with Commander Harold Byrd and Bernt Balchen with the Fairchild plane "Stars and Stripes" - the first plane to fly in the Antarctic continent. The first Fairchild plane. Fairchild and the K-38 camera, pre-flight. Fairchild and Gloria Swanson. Fairchild and the PhotoTextSetter 2000. Fairchild with numerous other inventions, airplanes, and people.
It is unclear if the negatives and photographs dated from the 1920s-1930s are originals or subsequent generations.

Date

1923 -1970 ca.

Category

Publicity photographs; Group portrait; Portrait photograph; Film negative

Collection Title

Steve Allen photographs of Fairchild Semiconductor

Series Title

Collected history files

Credit

Gift of Steve Allen

Lot Number

X4360.2008