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[POLAR] 1927 First Flight to North Pole Autographed Speech to Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. 16 pp Speech of Hon Roy Woodruff of Michigan February 25th, 1927 on the occasion of the bestowing of medals by the President of the United States to Richard E. Byrd as pilot, and Warrant Machinist Floyd Bennett on reaching the North Pole. With autographs of Henry Woodhouse, polar explorers Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and R. E. Byrd. Together with autographs of Floyd Bennett, R. A. Bartlett, Chairman Aviation Committee, C. M. Chester. Rear Admiral U.S. Navy, and inscribed to Woodhouse by poet Edwin Markham. With free frank congressional mailing envelope. Ex Henry Woodhouse collection, noted American aviation pioneering author and forger. Several signature(s) likely in Woodhouse’s hand. Very good.