Thirteen photographs and accompanying documentation relating to Charles A. Lindbergh's stay in Paris after his 1927 trans-Atlantic flight. The photographs include several formal group photographs of Lindbergh with prominent European aviators such as Bleriot and Herrick; the remaining photographs document the dismantling, for inspection and shipping back to the United States, of the "Spirit of St. Louis" by the Vacuum Oil Co.

The photographs appear to be additional prints of photographs appearing in the book Le premier vol de New York-Paris par le colonel Ch. A. Lindbergh ([Paris:] A. J. Ganon Relieur, 1927), a bound folio volume of 75 photographs mounted on card stock. Thirteen copies of the volume were produced and distributed by the Vacuum Oil Co., which had sponsored Lindbergh's flight. One of these volumes was given to Henry Lowe Brownback by Henri Pagny, an official of the Vacuum Oil Co. in France. The correspondence in this series concerns the gift of this copy by Mrs. Mina Brownback Hayn, through the offices of Floyd Markham, to the Ryan Aeronautical Library and the San Diego Aerospace Museum in 1983.

Ault's possession of this correspondence strongly suggests that the photographs were also originally in the possession of Henry Lowe Brownback, and passed, most probably as duplicates, to Ault from Mina Brownback Hayn through Floyd Markham.

Ault received a reproduction of each photograph at the time of his gift, and the collection includes a copy negative of each photograph.

The material is arranged as follows: correspondence, photographs (further arranged by the number marked on the back of each photograph), and copy negatives