The Spirit of St. Louis

An estimated crowd of 200,000 Angelenos greeted Charles Lindbergh as he climbed out of the “Spirit of St. Louis” at a small airfield east of downtown.

She and her sister were later hired as extras for the 1957 film “The Spirit of St. Louis.”

It was a small painting of the airplane with which Charles Lindbergh crossed the ocean, the Spirit of St. Louis.

Despite his later unstinting work for the World Wildlife Federation, as well as winning a Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography "The Spirit of St. Louis," his reputation never fully recovered.

Stowed away behind glass cabinet doors, the shelves display a number of rare pieces, including first edition, signed copies of volumes such as Charles Lindbergh’s “The Spirit of St. Louis” and Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca.”