Series 1:
Watercolors, Prints and Drawings.
1784-circa 1980
(bulk, 1784-1950).
Physical Description:
1 volume, 5 oversize boxes + 1 oversize box of items affected by
mold.
Arrangement note
Organized into 4 subseries:
- Subseries 1.1: Watercolors, circa 1855-1920
- Subseries 1.2: Prints and Drawings, 1784-circa 1980
- Subseries 1.3: Calendars, 1999
- Subseries 1.4: Plates removed from François-Louis Bruel,
Histoire Aéronautique (Paris, 1909),
1784-1830
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of scrapbook pages, watercolors, prints (both original
and reproduction), drawings, handbills, calendars, and plates from
publications, relating to aviation. It is particularly strong in French and
British aerostation (ballooning), 1783-1785, in 19th-century ballooning, and
in historic U.S. civil and military aircraft, 1903 to circa 1950.
The materials include prints from Barthélémy Faujas de Saint-Fond,
Première suite de la description des expériences
aérostatiques de MM. de Montgolfier
, Tome second (Paris: Cuchet,
1784), as well as original and reproduction prints--many of the latter taken
from François-Louis Bruel,
Histoire aéronautique par
les monuments peints, sculptés, dessinés et gravés, des origines à
1830
(Paris, 1909)--of most of the earliest balloon ascents from
1783 to the late 1780s. The collection also contains several scrapbook pages
and a large number of prints and handbills relating to ballooning in
Britain, 1836-1870, in particular the career of Charles Green. The materials
include portraits of many pioneer balloonists, including the Montgolfier
brothers, James Sadler, and Vincent Lunardi, and depictions of the most
famous balloons, including "Le Flesselle" (1784), Count Lennox's "Eagle"
(1835), the "Vauxhall Royal Balloon" (later, "Great Nassau Balloon"), and
Professor Lowe's "Mammoth Balloon" (1859).
Other prints document the 18th-century obsession with methods of steering
balloons, in particular the use of eagles, and the 18th- and 19th-century
fascination with fantastic flying machines, including two prints, from the
mid 1780s and 1843, respectively, based on the engraving "Pro bono publico",
first printed by Willir in 1784. The materials also document the ceremonial
and military uses of balloons. Balloons are also represented in several
satirical prints, including James Gillray's 1810 caricature of the
installation of Lord Grenville as Chancellor of Oxford University and the
"Ascending and Descending, or Balloon and Dragoon, A scene at Portobello
Baracks, June 27th, 1822".
Twentieth-century materials include a calendar of exhibits in the National
Air And Space Museum; pochoir prints of European aviation events, 1908-1910;
photographic images of airships, dirigibles, and airplanes, 1919-1931;
large-size color lithographs of military aircraft built by Consolidated
Vultee, circa 1941-1945; as well as several portfolios containing
reproductions of paintings of historic aircraft, by Charles H. Hubbell; and
computer-generated renderings of a U.S. military "flying wing", circa
1980.
Subseries 1.1:
Watercolors.
Circa 1855-1920.
Physical Description:
1 volume + 1 folder.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries consists of two items: (1) a small volume of original pen
and watercolor images (many fantastical), by an unknown artist and
dating from approximately 1855, of methods of aerial, water-borne, and
steam locomotion; and (2) a watercolor, circa 1920, of an Avro 504
biplane, by Geoffrey Watson.
Book Collection: Aviation TL549 .A6
Unknown artist, Pen and watercolor images (many fantastical)
of methods of aerial, water-borne, and steam locomotion.
Circa 1855.
General Physical Description note: 1 volume:
29 leaves : 5 x 8 in.
Box 43, Folder 1
Geoffrey Watson, Avro 504 biplane, Reg. No.
H2206.
Circa 1920.
General Physical Description note: 1
watercolor : 14 x 19.5 in.
Subseries 1.2:
Prints and Drawings.
1784-circa 1980
(bulk, 1784-1950).
Physical Description:
6 oversize boxes + 1 oversize box of items affected by
mold.
Arrangement note
Organized into 3 subsubseries:
- Subsubseries 1.2.1: Scrapbook Pages, 1784-1850
- Subsubseries 1.2.2: Single Items, 1783-circa 1980
- Subsubseries 1.2.3: 20th-Century Artists, 1903-circa
1950
Scope and Contents note
This subseries consists of scrapbook pages, prints (both original and
reproduction), drawings, handbills, and plates from publications,
relating to aviation. It is particularly strong in French and British
aerostation (ballooning), 1783-1785, in 19th-century English ballooning,
and in historic U.S. civil and military aircraft, 1903 to circa
1950.
Eighteenth-century events represented include the first hydrogen balloon
ascent, Paris, August 1783; the first three human balloon ascents (by
Pilatre de Rosier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, from la Muette, November
1783; by Charles and Robert, from the garden of the Tuilleries, December
1783; and of "Le Flesselle", at Lyon, January 1784); and Blanchard and
Jeffries making the first Channel crossing, January 1785. The materials
include portraits of Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier, 1783; and of James
Sadler, the first English balloonist, 1785; as well as several prints
relating to Vincent Lunardi. Other prints depict various proposed
methods of steering balloons, in particular the use of eagles. "Inventé
pour le bien present et celui de la posterité", a satirical
representation of a fantastic airship, is derived from the engraving
"Pro bono publico", first printed by Willir in 1784.
Nineteenth-century materials include several scrapbook pages and a large
number of prints and handbills relating to ballooning in Britain,
1836-1870, in particular the career of Charles Green and the "Vauxhall
Royal Balloon" (later, "Great Nassau Balloon"). Other materials relate
to ascents by James Sadler (1810-1813). The materials include depictions
of well known balloons, including Count Lennox's "Eagle", 1835, and
Professor Lowe's "Mammoth Balloon", 1859. The 19th century fascination
with fantastic flying machines is documented by a double-sided
full-color 1843 broadside, favorably comparing the "Great Aerial
Navigator or Atmospheric Machine"--a fantastical machine based on
Willir's 1784 engraving "Pro bono publico"--with W. S. Henson's "Aerial"
and by a modern reproduction of an 1841 print of the "Great Steam Duck"
of Louisville. The materials also document the ceremonial (the
coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, 1804; Carlos E. Pellegrini,
"Fiestas Mayas en Buenos Aires", 1841) and military (the battle of Fair
Oaks, Virginia, 1862; Eugène Godard building balloons in the gare
d'Orléans, Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War, 1871) uses of
balloons. Balloons are also represented in several satirical prints,
including James Gillray's 1810 caricature of the installation of Lord
Grenville as Chancellor of Oxford University and "Ascending and
Descending, or Balloon and Dragoon, A scene at Portobello Baracks, June
27th, 1822".
The bulk of the 20th-century materials consists of portolios of
lithographic prints, including one of military aircraft built by
Consolidated Vultee, circa 1941-1945; another of military and civilian
aircraft built by Lockheed Aircraft Corp., circa 1948; and several
containing reproductions of paintings of historic aircraft by Charles H.
Hubbell, published by Thompson Products, Cleveland, Ohio, sponsor of the
Thompson Flying Trophy. The materials also include 13 hand-colored
pochoir prints by French artists Ernest and Marguerite ("Gamy") Montaut,
photographic images of U.S. and British airships, dirigibles, and
fixed-wing aircraft from
The Mentor and
various publications of the Royal United Service Institution, circa
1919-1931, and computer-generated renderings of a U.S. military "flying
wing", circa 1980.
Subsubseries 1.2.1:
Scrapbook Pages.
1784-1850
(bulk, 1836-1850).
Physical Description:
6 items.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically.
Scope and Contents note
This subsubseries comprises large sheets with multiple attachments,
including prints, handbills, newspaper clippings, and journal
articles. It is arranged in chronological order. The earliest page
contains two engravings from the second volume of Barthélémy Faujas
de Saint-Fond,
Première suite de la
description des expériences aérostatiques de MM. de
Montgolfier
(1784): the second human ascent, by Jacques
Charles and Noel Robert from the garden of the Tuilleries, Paris,
December 1, 1783; and the third human ascent, of "Le Flesselle", the
largest hot-air balloon ever constructed, at Lyon, 19 January 1784.
The remaining pages relate to ballooning in Britain, 1836-1870, in
particular the career of Charles Green and the "Vauxhall Royal
Balloon" (later, "Great Nassau Balloon"). They were probably
originally part of the William Upton scrapbook now housed at the
National Air and Space Museum Archives. Materials include a print of
the environs of Liège, as seen from the "Vauxhall Royal Balloon",
November 7, 1836, and a portrait of Green, circa 1870; an autograph
note by Green; and handbills advertising ascents by Green in 1839,
1845, 1846, and 1850. The materials also include accounts of ascents
by John Hampton (1838, 1839) and Hugh Bell (1850), and a
double-sided full-color broadside, published in 1843, favorably
comparing the "Great Aerial Navigator or Atmospheric Machine"--a
fantastical machine based on the engraving "Pro bono publico" first
printed by J. Willir, London, in 1784--with W. S. Henson's
"Aerial".
Box 2, Folder 1
Engravings from Barthélémy Faujas de Saint-Fond,
Première suite de la description des
expériences aérostatiques de MM. de Montgolfier
,
Tome second (Paris: Cuchet, 1784).
1784.
General Physical Description note: 1
sheet : 12.25 x 12.75 in.
Contents:
| [Left] |
"Second Voyage
Aérien. Expérience faite dans le Jardin des
Thuilleries par M. M. Charles et Robert, le 1
er.X
bre. 1783" [second human ascent, by
Jacques Charles and Noel Robert from the garden of
the Tuilleries, Paris, December 1, 1783]. --
Desiné par le Ch
er de
Lorimier, engraved by N. De Launay. -- 1 engraving
: 7.5 x 4.5 in.
|
| [Right] |
"Troiseme Voyage
Aérien. Expérience faite … Lion le 19 Janvier
1784, sous la Direction de M. Joseph Montgolfier"
[third human ascent, in "Le Flesselle", the
largest hot-air balloon ever constructed, at Lyon,
19 January 1784, under the direction of Joseph
Montgolfier]. -- Desiné par le Ch
er de Lorimier, engraved by
N. De Launay. At top right: "Pg. 67". -- 1
engraving : 7.5 x 4.75 in.
|
Described in Louis Liebmann and Gustav Wahl,
Katalog der Historischen Abteilung der
Ersten Internationalen Luftschiffahrts-Ausstellung (ILA) zu
Frankfurt a. M. 1909
(Frankfurt am Main: Wüten &
Co, 1912), p. 83, no. 230, and p. 96, no. 265, respectively.
Box 3, Folder 1
Ballooning in Britain.
1836-1839.
General Physical Description note: 1
scrapbook page : 19.5 x 10.875 in.
Contents:
| [recto] |
Ascent by John
Hampton from [unnamed, possibly Flora] Gardens,
Monday, August 19, [1839]. -- 1 handbill : blue
ink ; 18.75 x 10 in.
|
| [recto] |
"Mr. Hampton's own
account of his parachute descent". Dated in red
pen: "Herald, 6 Oct. 1838". -- 1 journal clipping
: 5 x 3 in.
|
| [verso, top
left]
|
"Ballooning". Letter
from T. S. Mackintosh, dated September 26, 1836.
-- 1 journal clipping.
|
| [verso, top middle] |
"Novel Ascent in a
Fire Balloon". Ascent of a young man named Sneath,
at Mansfield. Dated in pencil: "1837". -- 1
journal clipping.
|
| [verso, top
middle]
|
Establishment of the
Aeronautic Society. Dated in pencil: "1837". -- 1
journal clipping.
|
| [verso, top
right]
|
"Aerostation".
Letter to the editor from John Gregory.
The Penny Mechanic, [dated
in pencil: "1837"], pp. 87-88. -- 1 journal page :
8.5 x 5 in.
|
| [verso, bottom
left]
|
The Mirror, [no
date, but c.1836], p. 181. End of an account of
the construction and first ascent of the "Vauxhall
Royal Balloon". -- 1 journal page : 8.5 x 4.875
in.
|
| [verso, bottom
right]
|
[missing]. |
Box 2, Folder 2
Charles Green.
1836-1870.
General Physical Description note: 1
scrapbook page : 15.75 x 10.75 in.
Contents:
| [top] |
"Environs of Liège,
seen from the balloon at night" [Liège, as seen
from the "Vauxhall Royal Balloon", by Charles
Green, Robert Hollond, MP, and Monck Mason,
November 7, 1836]. A. Butler, Lith., from a sketch
of Monck Mason. -- 1 lithograph : color ; 7.25 x
9.5 in. [trimmed].
|
| [bottom,
left]
|
Portrait of "The
Late Mr. Charles Green, the Aeronaut". Clipping
from unknown publication, [1870]. -- 1 jounal
clipping : color ; 7.25 x 6.25 in.
|
| [bottom, right] |
"Ballooning at
Bombay", letter dated December 14, 1853,
recounting ascent by Mr. Knight at Bombay.
Clipping from unknown publication. -- 1 journal
clipping : color ; 6.625 x 3.375 in.
|
Box 1, Folder 1
Charles Green.
1839.
General Physical Description note: 1
sheet : 11.625 x 7.75 in.
Contents:
| [top] |
Certification by
Green that he had made 273 ascents since his first
at the coronation of George IV. Dated Honington
Hall, October 11, 1839. -- 1 autograph note :
3.875 x 4.25 in.
|
| [bottom] |
"Memorandum"
commemorating Green's 3rd ascent from the city of
Norwich, October 14, 1839, his 274th since his
first at the coronation of George IV. John Stacy,
Printer, Old Haymarket, Norwich. -- 1 handbill :
rose paper ; 6.75 x 7.75 in.
|
Box 3, Folder 2
Ballooning in Britain.
1843-1846.
General Physical Description note: 1
scrapbook page : 21 x 12.75 in.
Contents:
| [recto] |
"The Correct Models,
and a true description of the Rival Aerial
Inventions! The Great Aerial Navigator, or
Atmospheric Machine, by the Aerial Conveyance
Company; and the Flying Steam Carriage, by the
Aerial Transit Company". 2nd edition. Dated Feb 20
and April 2, 1843. -- 1 broadside : color; 20 x
14.625 in. -- Note: the "Flying Steam Carriage" is
the "Aerial" of William Samuel Henson and John
Stringfellow.
|
| [recto] |
"The Aërial
Steam-Carriage," from unnamed periodical, pp.
544-549. Undated, but most probably 1843. -- 1
journal article : 8 x 5 1/4 in. -- Note: Page 543
is the conclusion of an article,
"Ellistoniana".
|
| [verso, top] |
302nd ascent by
Charles Green, Royal Albert Saloon, Monday, July
7, 1845. -- 1 handbill : yellow paper; 12.25 x 10
in.
|
| [verso, bottom] |
Ascent by Charles
Green and the "Great Nassau Balloon", Cremorne
Gardens, Chelsea, Monday, September 21, 1846. -- 1
handbill : 10 x 5 in. -- Note: Described in Louis
Liebmann and Gustav Wahl,
Katalog der Historischen Abteilung der Ersten
Internationalen Luftschiffahrts-Ausstellung (ILA)
zu Frankfurt a. M. 1909
(Frankfurt am
Main: Wüten & Co, 1912), p. 286, no.
823.
|
Box 3, Folder 3
Ballooning in Britain.
1850.
General Physical Description note: 1
scrapbook page : 20.75 x 11.75 in.
Contents:
| [recto, top] |
Ascent on horseback
by Charles Green, Vauxhall Gardens, Wednesday,
July 31, 1850. -- 1 handbill : color ; 14.5 x 6.25
in.
|
| [recto,
bottom]
|
Accident to the
Great Nassau Balloon, between Gravesend and the
Nore, [June 29, 1850]. Clipping from the [?]
Illustrated London
News
, July 6, 1850. -- 1 journal clipping
: color ; 8 x 10.75 in.
|
| [verso, top] |
Ascent by Hugh Bell
in an experimental dirigible balloon, Vauxhall
Gardens, Monday, July 22, 1850. Clipping from
unknown publication. -- 1 journal clipping :
color.
|
| [verso, bottom
left]
|
Ascent by Hugh Bell
in an experimental dirigible balloon, Vauxhall
Gardens, Monday, July 22, 1850. Clipping from the
London Journal,
n.d. -- 1 journal clipping : color.
|
| [verso, bottom
right]
|
George Augustus
Sala, letter to the
Times [London], describing his ascent
with Hugh Bell in an experimental dirigible
balloon, Vauxhall Gardens, Monday, July 22, 1850.
Clipping from the
Times -- 1 journal clipping.
|
Subsubseries 1.2.2:
Single Items.
1783-circa
1980.
Physical Description:
90 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically.
Scope and Contents note
This subsubseries includes prints (both original and reproduction),
handbills, and plates from publications, and is arranged
chronologically by the date of the event or (in the case of
portraits) of publication.
Eighteenth-century events represented include the first hydrogen
balloon ascent, Champ de Mars, Paris, August 27, 1783; the first
three human balloon ascents (by François Pilatre de Rosier and
François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, from la Muette, November 21,
1783; by Jacques Charles and Noel Robert, from the garden of the
Tuilleries, December 1, 1783; and of "Le Flesselle", at Lyon,
January 19, 1784); and Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries
making the first Channel crossing, January 7, 1785. The materials
include portraits of Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier, 1783; and of
James Sadler, the first English balloonist, 1785. The materials also
include several prints relating to Vincent Lunardi, including an
engraving of his "Grand Air Balloon", 1785, a print of Lunardi, Mrs.
Sage, and George Biggin ascending in Lunardi's balloon, 1785, and
two caricatures, "The English Balloon, 1784" of Lunardi's 1784
balloon, and "Aerostation out at Elbows or the itinerant Aeronaut"
(1785)--attributed to Thomas Rowlandson--of Lunardi himself. Several
prints depict various proposed methods of steering balloons, in
particular the use of eagles. "Inventé pour le bien present et celui
de la posterité", a satirical representation of a fantastic airship,
is derived from the engraving "Pro bono publico", first printed by
Willir in 1784. Francesco Guardi's drawing of the ascent by Count
Francesco Zambeccari over the Giudecca Canal, Venice, 1784, may
possibly be a forgery, as it appears to be a line-for-line copy of
the drawing illustrated in James Byam Shaw,
The Drawings of Francesco Guardi (London: Faber and
Faber, [1949]), plate 46. (A reproduction of Guardi's painting based
on this drawing is in subseries 1.4, box 5, item 18.)
Ballooning materials from the 19th century include prints and
handbills relating to ascents by James Sadler (1810, 1812, 1813),
John Hampton (1839), and Charles Green (1845, 1851), as well as to a
parachute descent by A. J. Garnerin in England, 1802, and to other
parachute descents at Philadelphia and Easton, 1850. Well known
balloons depicted include Count Lennox's "Eagle", 1835; the
"Vauxhall Royal Balloon" (later "Great Nassau Balloon"), 1836;
Professor Lowe's "Mammoth Balloon", 1859; and the French balloon
"L'Esperance", 1865. The "Great Steam Duck" of Louisville, 1841,
represents the 19th-century American public's fascination with
fantastic flying machines. Prints of the ceremonial use of balloons
include the coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, 1804; the
festivities of the Grand Jubilee, Green Park, London, 1814; and
Carlos E. Pellegrini, "Fiestas Mayas en Buenos Aires" (1841). Prints
of the military use of balloons include the battle of Fleurus, 1794;
the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, 1862; a reproduction of a
photograph by Matthew Brady of soldiers inflating professor Lowe's
balloon, circa 1861-1864; Eugène Godard building balloons in the
gare d'Orléans, Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War, 1871; and the
trials of the dirigible "la France", 1884. Balloons are also
represented in several satirical prints, including James Gillray's
1810 caricature of the installation of Lord Grenville as Chancellor
of Oxford University; "Ascending and Descending, or Balloon and
Dragoon, A scene at Portobello Baracks, June 27th, 1822"; and
Every Body's Album, & Caricature
Magazine
, 1834. The Gillray caricature differs in
details from the print usually described (cf. Draper Hill, ed.,
Fashionable Contrasts: Caricatures by
James Gillray
[London: Phaidon Press, 1966], plate 49)
and may represent an earlier state.
Materials from the 20th century relate primarily to fixed-wing
aircraft, although the collection does contain a tinted photographic
print of Santos Dumont No. 6 (1901), as well as photographic
illustrations of several 20th-century airships and dirigibles,
including H.M. airship R.101 (1929) and the U.S. naval airship
"Akron" (1931). The materials include a set of 6 photographic
illustrations of civilian and military aircraft published in
The Mentor, 1919; 18 pages of
photographic illustrations of primarily British military and
civilian aircraft taken from publications of the Royal United
Services Institution, circa 1920-1931; and a large poster
reproducing historic photographs and modern paintings by Jack
Woodson of famous aircraft, 1903-1970. The materials also include
large-size color lithographs of military aircraft built by
Consolidated Vultee, circa 1941-1945, and of military and civilian
aircraft built by Lockheed Aircraft Corp., circa 1948, as well as
computer-generated renderings of a U.S. military "flying wing",
circa 1980.
Box 2, Folder 25
Bernard Picart, "La chute d’Icare / The fall of Icarus /
Der Fall von Icarus / De val van icarus".
1731.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 18 x 11.5 in. [18 x 12 in. mount].
Note:
B. Picart del. 1730; B. Picart invenit 1731. Published in
The Temple of the Muses, or, The Principal
Histories of Fabulous Antiquity : Represented in Sixty
Sculptures
(Amsterdam: Zachariah Chatelain,
1733).
Box 43, Folder 2
Georg Matthäus Seutter, "Tabula anemographica seu pyxis
nautical, vulgo compass charte …" Augsburg.
Circa
1741-1757.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : hand-colored ; 20.25 x 23.25 in.
Box 1, Folder 2
Portrait of Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier.
1783.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 7 x 4.5 in.
Note:
Dessiné et gravé par De Launay le jeune d'après le Bas-relief de
M
r. Boudon, Sculpteur du Roi,
fait in 1783.
Box 1, Folder 3, Box 2, Folder 3
First hydrogen balloon ascent, Champ de Mars,
Paris.
August 27, 1783.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 2, Folder 3
"Experience de la Machine Aréostatique ..." /
"Versuch mit der aerostatischen Maschine ..."
August 27, 1783.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : color ; 11.5 x 15.25 in. ; caption in both
French (left) and German (right).
Note:
Described in Louis Liebmann and Gustav Wahl,
Katalog der Historischen Abteilung der
Ersten Internationalen Luftschiffahrts-Ausstellung (ILA)
zu Frankfurt a. M. 1909
(Frankfurt am Main:
Wüten & Co, 1912), p. 66, no. 176.
Box 1, Folder 3
"A messieurs les souscripteurs" [landing of the
balloon].
August 27, 1783.
General Physical Description note: 1
print [reproduction] : color ; 4.5 x 7 in.
Note:
William Lockwood Marsh,
Aeronautical
Prints & Drawings
(London: Halton and
Truscott Smith, 1924), plate 8.
Box 1, Folder 4, Box 2, Folder 4
First human balloon ascent, by François Pilatre de Rosier
and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, from la Muette,
descending near the hospital at Moulin de
Croule-barbe.
November 21, 1783.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 2, Folder 4
"Premier voyage aerien fait par M. Pilatre De Rosier
et M. le marquis d'Arlandes parti de la Muette le 21 Nov.
1783 et dessendue au Moulin de Croule-barbe près
l'Hopitale".
November 21, 1783.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : hand colored ; 16 x 12 in.
Note:
De Frene del.
Box 1, Folder 4
"Premier Voyage Aërien En présence de M
r. le Dauphin. Experience faite
dans le Jardin de la Muette, Sous la Direction de M
r. Montgolfier, Par M
r. le Marquis d'Arlandes et M
r. Pilatre du Rosier le 21. 9
bre. 1783. Vue de la Terrasse de
M
r. Franklin a Passi"
[ascent as seen from the terrace of Benjamin Franklin at
Passi].
November 21, 1783.
General Physical Description note: 1
print [photographic reproduction] : 13 x 9 in.
Note:
Desiné par le Ch
er de Lorimier ;
gravé par N. De Launay. Reproduction of the original
frontispiece to Bartélémy Faujas de Saint-Fond,
Première suite de la description des
expériences aérostatiques de MM. de Montgolfier
,
Tome second (Paris: Cuchet, 1784). Copy of original in the
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino,
CA.
Box 1, Folder 5-7
Ascent by Jacques Charles and Noel Robert from the garden
of the Tuilleries, Paris.
December 1, 1783.
Physical Description:
3 folders.
Box 1, Folder 5
"Construction d'un ballon par Mr. Charles et Robert
au jardin des Tuilleries á Paris le 1er décembre
1783".
December 1, 1783.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 10.25 x 7 in. ; French caption at bottom in
modern hand.
Note:
William Lockwood Marsh,
Aeronautical
Prints & Drawings
(London: Halton and
Truscott Smith, 1924), plate 15.
Box 1, Folder 6
"Vue Prise de la Grille du Château".
December 1, 1783.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : color; 8 x 5.25 in.
Note:
A. Sergent in. et sculp. Aqua forti 1783. Described in Louis
Liebmann and Gustav Wahl,
Katalog der
Historischen Abteilung der Ersten Internationalen
Luftschiffahrts-Ausstellung (ILA) zu Frankfurt a. M.
1909
(Frankfurt am Main: Wüten & Co, 1912),
p. 78, no. 215.
Box 1, Folder 7
"The Return of the Charles and Robert balloon,
1783".
1783.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction] : color ; 5.5 x 8.5 in [mount 8 x
10 in.].
Note:
William Lockwood Marsh,
Aeronautical
Prints & Drawings
(London: Halton and
Truscott Smith, 1924), plate 18.
Box 1, Folder 8
"Troisieme Voyage Aerien" [Third (human) ascent, in "Le
Flesselle", the largest hot-air balloon ever constructed, at
Lyon, under the direction of Joseph Montgolfier].
January 19, 1784.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : color ; 7.5 x 5 in. At top right: "Pg.
67".
Note:
Desiné par le Chev. de Lorimier ; grave par N. De Launay.
Barthélémy Faujas de Saint-Fond,
Première
suite de la description des expériences aérostatiques de MM.
de Montgolfier
, Tome second (Paris: Cuchet, 1784).
Described in Louis Liebmann and Gustav Wahl,
Katalog der Historischen Abteilung der
Ersten Internationalen Luftschiffahrts-Ausstellung (ILA) zu
Frankfurt a. M. 1909
(Frankfurt am Main: Wüten &
Co, 1912), p. 96, no. 265.
Box 1, Folder 9
Francesco Guardi, drawing of the ascent by Count
Francesco Zambeccari over the Giudecca Canal,
Venice.
1784.
General Physical Description note: 1
drawing : pen and ink ; 9.75 x 9 in.
Note:
Probably a 20th century line-for-line forgery on 18th century
paper. See James Byam Shaw,
The Drawings
of Francesco Guardi
(London: Faber and Faber,
[1949]), pp. 51-53, 70-71 and plate 46. For a reproduction of
Guardi's painting based on this drawing see Subseries 1.4, box
5, item 18.
Box 1, Folder 10
"The English Balloon, 1784" [caricature of Vincent
Lunardi's 1784 balloon, with satirical poem].
1784.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : color ; 9.5 x 7 in.
Box 2, Folder 5
"Inventé pour le bien present et celui de la posterité"
[satirical representation of a fantastic airship].
Circa 1785.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : hand-colored ; 16 x 12 in.
Note:
Derived from the engraving "Pro bono publico" first printed by J.
Willir, London, 14 December 1784, that served as the basis for
Étienne Gaspard Robertson's "Minerva" (1804). Described in Louis
Liebmann and Gustav Wahl,
Katalog der
Historischen Abteilung der Ersten Internationalen
Luftschiffahrts-Ausstellung (ILA) zu Frankfurt a. M.
1909
(Frankfurt am Main: Wüten & Co, 1912), pp.
181-182 no. 440. See also François-Louis Bruel,
Histoire Aéronautique (Paris, 1909),
plate 203, and John Grand-Carteret and Léo Delteil,
La conquête de l'air vue par l'image
(1495-1909) (Paris: Librairie des Annales, 1910), pp.
151-153.
Box 2, Folder 6
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries make the
first Channel crossing by air, from England to
France.
January 7, 1785.
Physical Description:
2 items.
Note:
Note: For another reproduction of this print, see Subseries 1.4,
box 5, item 10.
Box 2, Folder 6, Item 1
"M
r. Blanchard accompagné
de M
r. Gefferies est parti de
Douvres a 1 heure précise ..."
January 7, 1785.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : hand colored; 16 x 12 in.
Box 2, Folder 6, Item 2
"The first Channel Crossing by Air,
1785".
1785.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction] : color; 16 x 11.5 in.
Note:
C. H. Gibbs-Smith,
Balloons
(London: Aeriel Press, c1956), plate [3].
Box 1, Folder 11
"Lunardi's Grand Air Balloon. Engraved for the Aerostatic
Spy, April 1
st, 1785".
April 1, 1785.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : color; 8.5 x 6.25 in.
Box 2, Folder 7
Vincent Lunardi, Mrs. Sage, and George Biggin ascending
in Lunardi's balloon from St. George's Field.
June 29, 1785.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 15.25 x 11.25 in.
Note:
Rigaud pinxit; F. Bartolozzi sculp. First state, published May
13, 1785. For another reproduction of this print, see Subseries
1.4, box 5, item 16.
Box 1, Folder 12
"Aerostation out at Elbows or the Itinerant Aeronaut"
[caricature of Vincent Lunardi].
Circa 1785.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : color ; 12.5 x 9 in.
Note:
Box 1, Folder 13
Portrait of James Sadler, the first English
aerostatist.
1785.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 8.5 x 7.75 in.
Note:
Box 3, Folder 4
"La quatorzieme experience aerostatique de M. Blanchard,
accompagné du Chevalier Lepinard" [14th balloon ascent by
Jean-Pierre Blanchard accompanied by the Chevalier de
L'Espinard, Lille].
August 26, 1785.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 13 x 18 in.
Note:
Engraved by Helman after a painting by Watteau.
Box 2, Folder 8
"Globe fait pour être dirigé, c.1785".
1785.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction] : color; 16 x 11.5 in.
Note:
C. H. Gibbs-Smith,
Balloons
(London: Aeriel Press, c1956), plate [5]. Cf. William Lockwood
Marsh,
Aeronautical Prints &
Drawings
(London: Halton and Truscott Smith, 1924),
plate 50, from an impression in the Bibliothèque Nationale,
Paris.
Box 1, Folder 14
"Grand-Fish-Balloon, With the Four most surprising Live
Eagles ..." to be exhibited at the Pantheon by Mr.
Uncles.
April 1786.
General Physical Description note: 1
handbill : 8.5 x 7 in.
Note:
Advertisement published in the
Times (London), Issue 406, Wednesday, April 12,
1786, p. 1, col. b.
Box 2, Folder 9
"Bataille de Fleurus".
June 26, 1794.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph : color; 11.75 x 15.25 in. [mounted].
General note
Fabrique d'Estampes de Dembour et Gaugel, Metz; A Marseille et à
Toulouse chez Forguez, n. d. Cf. Louis Liebmann and Gustav Wahl,
Katalog der Historischen Abteilung
der Ersten Internationalen Luftschiffahrts-Ausstellung (ILA)
zu Frankfurt a. M. 1909
(Frankfurt am Main: Wüten
& Co, 1912), p. 141, no. 359.
Box 1, Folder 15
Parachute.
Late 18th-early 19th
century.
General Physical Description note: 1
print [photographic reproduction] : 4.5 x 2.5 in. [on mount 5 x
3 in.].
Box 1, Folder 16
Mechanism for steering and propelling a
balloon.
Late 18th-early 19th
century.
General Physical Description note: 1
print [photographic reproduction] : 2.75 x 4.75 in. [on mount 5
x 3 in.].
Box 2, Folder 10
"Neueste Erfindung einen Luftballon durch Adler zu
regieren, 1801" [balloon pulled by eagles].
1801.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction] : color; 16 x 11.5 in.
Note:
C. H. Gibbs-Smith,
Balloons
(London: Aeriel Press, c1956), plate [7], from J. Kaiserer,
Über meine Erfindung einen Luftballon
durch Adler zu regieren
(Vienna, 1801).
Box 1, Folder 17
"Monsieur Garnerin and his extraordinary Descent in a
Parachute, Sept
r 21st, 1802" [first
parachute descent in England by A. J. Garnerin].
September 21, 1802.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 8 x 5 in.
Note:
Published by R. S. Kirby, London, 6 October 1814.
Box 1, Folder 18
James Gillray, "Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim
tollere humo - Virgil, Geor:" [Caricature of the installation of
Lord Grenville as chancellor of Oxford University].
1810.
General Physical Description note: 1
pen and ink wash : color ; 13 x 9.25 in.
Note:
Very similar to, but differing in details from, the print as
published by H. Humphrey, London. For a detailed description of
the symbolism, see Draper Hill, ed.,
Fashionable Contrasts; Caricatures by James Gillray
(London: Phaidon Press, 1966), plate 49 and pp. 158-159.
Box 1, Folder 19
"Fête du sacre et couronnement de leurs majestés
impériales" [Festivities for the coronation of Napoleon and
Josephine, Place de la Concorde, Paris].
December 3, 1804.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph [reproduction] : color ; 8.5 x 11 in.
General note
Le Coeur del. ; Gautier aq. fort. ; Marchand sculp. Reproduction
published by
Connoisseur
magazine, n. d.
Box 1, Folder 20
Ascent by James Sadler at Oxford.
July 7, 1810.
General Physical Description note: 1
print [photographic reproduction] : 13 x 8 in.
Note:
Drawn by E. M. Jones, engraved by Havell. Published by E. M.
Jones, Newport Market, April 20, 1811. Reproduction of original
at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino,
California.
Box 1, Folder 21
James Sadler and William Clayfield in the Bristol
Channel.
September 24, 1810.
General Physical Description note: 1
print [reproduction] : color; 8.25 x 5.375 in. [on mount 11.875
x 8.25 in.].
General note
Drawn by E. M. Jones. William Lockwood Marsh,
Aeronautical Prints & Drawings
(London: Halton and Truscott Smith, 1924), plate 71.
Box 1, Folder 22, Box 2, Folder 11
Ascent by James Sadler at Dublin.
October 1, 1812.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 2, Folder 11
"Part of the Balloon with which Mr. [James] Sadler
ascended from Dublin, Oct. 1, 1812".
October 1, 1812
General Physical Description note: 1 engraving : color; 15.75 x 11 in.
Note:
Engraved by Robert Havell.
Box 1, Folder 22
James Sadler ascending from Dublin, together with
apparatus for filling a balloon with gas.
October 1, 1812
General Physical Description note: 1 engraving : 9.5 x 10 in. ; vol. 2, plate 1, from
unidentified publication.
Box 1, Folder 23
James Sadler ascending from Nottingham.
November 1, 1813.
General Physical Description note: 1
print [reproduction] : color ; 8.375 x 5.5 in. [on mount 9 1/2 x
6 1/4 in.].
Note:
William Lockwood Marsh,
Aeronautical
Prints & Drawings
(London: Halton and Truscott
Smith, 1924), frontispiece.
Box 2, Folder 12
"The Tower and Preparation of the Fire Works with the
Balloon in the Park, Aug
t. 1st,
1814".
August 1, 1814.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph : color; 10.5 x 14 in.
Note:
Engraved by M. Dubourg after J. H. Clark. Published [London:]
Edward Orme, August 12, 1814. In Green Park, London, part of the
festivities of the Grand Jubilee, celebrating 100 years of
Hannoverian rule and the recent defeat of Napoleon.
Box 1, Folder 24
"The Natives of Torneä Lapmark, assembled at Enontekis,
to witness the launching [of] the first Balloon within the
Arctic Circle".
Circa 1816.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 8 x 10.5 in.
Note:
Drawn by E. D. Clarke ; engraved by R. Pollard. Published London:
T. Cadell & W. Davis, Strand, 1 January 1819. From Edward
Daniel Clarke,
Travels in various
countries of Europe, Asia and Africa
, pt. 3, section
1 (London, 1819).
Box 2, Folder 13
"Ascending and Descending, or Balloon and Dragoon, A
scene at Portobello Barracks, June 27th, 1822".
June 27, 1822.
General Physical Description note: 1
print : color; 10.25 x 15 in.
Box 3, Folder 5
Every Body's Album, & Caricature
Magazine
, No. 3.
February 1, 1834.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph : color ; 18 x 11.75 in.
Note:
C[harles] J[ameson] Grant, A.A.E., invent. del. & lith.
London: J. Kendrick, 1834.
Box 2, Folder 14
"The Eagle, First Aerial Ship" [Count Lennox's
"Eagle"].
1835.
General Physical Description note: 1
handbill : 10.25 x 16.25 in.
Note:
Sold by W. Lowe, 3, Upper Saint Martin's Lane, [1835].
Box 1, Folder 25
"An exact model of the 'Vauxhall Royal
Balloon'".
1836.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph : color ; 11 x 8.75 in.
Note:
Printed and published by J. Thompson, Gloucester Street, Lambeth,
[1836].
Box 2, Folder 15
Twentieth ascent, and parachute descent, by John Hampton,
in the Balloon "Albion", Flora Gardens, Bayswater.
Monday, 12 August 1839.
General Physical Description note: 1
handbill : 14.75 x 4.875 in.
Box 3, Folder 6
"The 'Great Steam Duck' of Louisville, 1841".
1841.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph [reproduction] : 15.5 x 18 in.
Note:
Reprinted for the Youth Group of Magazines, c1943.
Box 2, Folder 16
Carlos E. Pellegrini, "Fiestas Mayas en Buenos
Aires".
1841.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph : color; 8.375 x 12.125 in. [on paper mount 10.5 x 14
in.].
Box 1, Folder 26
Night ascent by Charles Green, Cremorne Gardens,
Chelsea.
Thursday, August 7, 1845.
General Physical Description note: 1
handbill : 9.875 x 4.75 in.
Box 3, Folder 7
Two ascents by Charles Green, in the "Great Nassau
Balloon", Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea.
Monday, August 25, and Wednesday, August 27,
[1845].
General Physical Description note: 1
handbill : yellow paper ; 19 x 9.5 in.
Box 1, Folder 27
"Locomotion sur terre, sur l'eau, dans l'air" [a train, a
schooner-rigged side-wheel steamer named Java, and a
balloon].
Circa 1850.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 6 x 3.75 in. Frontispiece to an unidentified
book.
Box 1, Folder 28
"Mr.Cocking's Parachute, Phil., 1850".
1850.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph [reproduction] : color ; 8 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Reprint New York: FAR Gallery, c1949.
Box 1, Folder 29
Descent near Easton, Pennsylvania.
Circa 1850.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph [reproduction] : color ; 8 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Reprint New York: FAR Gallery, c1949.
Box 3, Folder 8
First benefit for, with ascent by, Charles Green, in the
"Great Nassau Balloon", Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea.
Monday, September 1st [1851].
General Physical Description note: 1
handbill : red ink ; 19.5 x 9.5 in.
Box 1, Folder 30
Three panels from
Tableau de l'art
aérostatique et de la direction des ballons
(Paris:
Maison Basset, Rue de Seine, 33, [c1851]), depicting the
development of lighter-than-air machines down to
1851.
1851.
Contents:
- 25 Fevrier 1784; 4 Mars 1784; 8 Mai 1784. -- 1 print :
color ; 5 x 7.5 in.
- Globe volant; 18 Juillet 1784; Ballon … parachute
renversé de Mr. Henin. -- 1 print : color : 5 x 7.5
in.
- 6 Octobre 1850; 1851. Trains de plaisir de
l'Hippodrome de Paris; 31 Aout 1851; 31 Aout 1851. Train
de plaisir de l'Hippodrome. -- 1 print : color ; 4 .5 x
8 in.
Note:
See William Lockwood Marsh,
Aeronautical
Prints & Drawings
(London: Halton and Truscott
Smith, 1924), pp. 29-32.
Box 2, Folder 17
"Professor Lowe's Mammoth Balloon, City of New York, as
she will appear when fully inflated".
1859.
General Physical Description note: 1
newspaper page : 13.5 x 10.5 in.
Note:
Frank Leslie's Illustrated
Newspaper
, November 19, 1859, pp. 391-392.
Box 1, Folder 31
Marie Madeleine Sophie Blanchard, née Armant (d.
1819).
1859.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 3.75 x 2.75 in (on sheet 12.25 x 8.5
in.).
Note:
By Jules Sorreau, 1859.
Box 3, Folder 9
"The Battle of Fair Oaks, VA, May 31st 1862".
May 31, 1862.
General Physical Description note: 2
engravings : color ; 11.5 x 16 in. (1) Picture frame mount, 16.5
x 19.5 in. ; (2) mounted on 12 x 16.5 in. board.
Note:
Published New York: Currier & Ives, 1862.
Box 2, Folder 18
Photograph by Matthew Brady of soldiers inflating
Professor Lowe's balloon.
Circa
1861-1864.
General Physical Description note: 1
photographic reproduction : 7.5 x 9.75 in. (on sheet 11.125 x
12.125 in.).
Note:
Reproduction c1910 by Patriot Publishing Co., Springfield,
Massachusetts. From George T. Miller,
Photographic History of the Civil War (New York:
Review of Reviews, 1912).
Box 1, Folder 32
Handbill advertising the appearance of the French balloon
"L'Esperance" at Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea.
Monday, August 7, 1865.
General Physical Description note: 1
handbill : color ; 9 x 8.5 in.
Note:
For a description of "L'Esperance", built by F. Delamarne and
Gabriel Yon in 1865, see John Grand-Carteret and Leo Delteil,
La Conquete de l'air vue par l'Image
(1495-1909)
(Paris: Librairie des Annales, [1910]),
p. 140, and Charles Dollfus and Henri Bouché,
Histoire de l'aéronautique (Paris:
l'Illustration, 1932), p.106; for a balloon of this name
exhibited at Limerick in May 1868, see
If Walls Could Talk. The Limerick Athenaeum: The story of
an Irish Theatre since 1852
(http://www.limerick.com/theroyal/thebook/drama.html)
(accessed 23 May 2011).
Box 1, Folder 33
Eugène Godard building balloons in the gare d'Orléans,
Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War.
1871.
General Physical Description note: 1
line engraving [photographic reproduction] : 8 x 10
in.
Note:
Engraved by Fichot. Reproduced from Charles Dollfus and Henri
Bouché,
Histoire de
l'aéronautique
(Paris: l'Illustration, 1932), p.
109.
Box 43, Folder 3-11
Samuel Dimmick Mott, Patent drawings for aero-plane.
Bushkill.
January 1877-December
1878.
Physical Description:
9 folders.
Box 43, Folder 3
Plate A.
January 1877.
General Physical Description note: 1 sheet : 17.75 x 22.75 in. FRAGILE.
Box 43, Folder 4
Plate B.
February 1877.
General Physical Description note: 1 sheet : 18 x 23.5 in. FRAGILE.
Box 43, Folder 5
Plate C.
February 1877.
General Physical Description note: 1 sheet : 19 x 14.5 in.
Box 43, Folder 6
Plate D.
March 1877.
General Physical Description note: 2 sheets: (Plate D) 18.75 x 14.25 in. ; (Supplement) 14 x
19 in.
Box 43, Folder 7
Plate E.
May-June 1877.
General Physical Description note: 3 sheets : hand-colored: (Plate E) 16.75 x 21.25 in;
(Supplement 1) 21.5 x 16.75 in.; (Supplement 2) 19 x 14.5
in.
Box 43, Folder 8
Plate F.
Circa
1877-1878.
General Physical Description note: 1 sheet : hand-colored ; 21.25 x 15 in.
Box 43, Folder 9
Plate G.
Circa
1877-1878.
General Physical Description note: 1 sheet (double-sided) : hand-colored ; 21.25 x 14.25
in.
Box 43, Folder 10
Plate H.
December 1878.
General Physical Description note: 1 sheet (double-sided) : hand-colored ; 20.75 x 16.5
in.
Box 43, Folder 11
Plate I.
Circa 1878.
General Physical Description note: 1 sheet : hand-colored ; 20.75 x 16.5 in.
Box 2, Folder 19
"Le ballon dirigeable 'la France' vue prise au parc
militaire de Chalais au moment où le commandant Renard et le
capitaine Krebs vont tenter leur première épreuve" [dirigible
"la France" at the time of her first trials by commandant Renard
and captain Krebs, Parc Militaire, Chalais].
1884.
General Physical Description note: 1
photographic print ; tinted ; 16 x 12 in.
Note:
Figaro Illustre, n.d.
Box 2, Folder 20
"E. Bayonne, Mexico, Recuerdo del Año 1889. Al
Jockey-Club".
1889.
General Physical Description note: 1
calendar : color; 13.5 x 10 in.
Note:
Lith. H. Sicard, Deposé. 28, rue Amelot, Paris.
Box 2, Folder 21
"'Le Santos-Dumont N
o 6'
tombé dans le jardin du chateau de M. le Baron Edmond de
Rothschild a Boulogne-sur-Seine" [Santos Dumont No. 6 in the
garden of the chateau of Baron Edmond de Rothschild,
Boulogne-sur-Seine].
September 6, 1901.
General Physical Description note: 1
photographic print : tinted ; 16 x 12 in.
Note:
Probably
Figaro Illustre, n.d.
Box 43, Folder 12
Samuel Dimmick Mott, "Aerodrome".
1904-1906.
Scope and Contents note
- Aeronauto, "The Newest Idea in Aerial Navigation",
Motor, March 1904, p. 31 (2 copies; 1 mounted).
FRAGILE.
- Passaic Daily News, Friday, March 11, 1904.
FRAGILE.
- New York Times, Sunday, January 21, 1906.
FRAGILE.
- 1 print : 19.25 x 14.75 in. N.d.
- 1 print : 7.25 x 9.25 in. Circa 1904.
Box 2, Folder 22
The Airman's Message, drawn by Tony Sarg. "Delayed by
urgent wire. Weather unfavourable. Am lying low for the
present".
1912.
General Physical Description note: 1
photographic print : 15.75 x 10.25 in.
Note:
Christmas Issue of the
Illustrated
Sporting and Dramatic News
, December 1912, p. 9.
Box 1, Folder 34
Balloon over the gates of Buckingham Palace.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
print : 7.5 x 5.75 in. (in picture frame mount, 11.75 x 9.75
in.).
Box 1, Folder 35
Aerial Navigation, photographic illustrations for
The Mentor, vol. 7, no. 7, serial
no. 179.
c1919.
Contents:
- American military free balloon. -- 1 print : 9.25 x 7
in.
- American naval observation balloon, moored to a
warship. -- 1 print : 9.25 x 7 in.
- British naval airship NS8. -- 1 print : 7 x 9.25
in.
- Martin twin-engine day bomber airplane. -- 1 print : 7
x 9.25 in.
- J. S. [Curtiss] F5L naval flying boat. -- 1 print ; 7
x 9.25 in.
- American mail airplane. -- 1 print ; 7 x 9.25
in.
Box 1, Folder 36
Photographic illustrations from publications of the Royal
United Service Institution.
Circa
1920-1931.
Contents:
- H.M. airship R.33 [1919], circa 1920-1925.
- U.S. naval airship "Akron", 1931.
- Armstrong Whitworth Argosy [1926], 1923.
- Avro Lynx (Oxford University air squadron,
1929.
- (recto): Blackburn Dart [1923] (N9540) leaving H.M.S.
Furious.
(verso):
H.M. airship R.101 (G-FAAW) [1929].
From a model.
Note: 2 copies.
- Blackburn Iris flying boat, 1926.
- (top) Cierva C.8V/AVRO 586 autogiro (G-EBTX), 1928.
(bottom) Cierva C.9 autogiro (J-8931), 1928.
Note: see
AVRO and ARMSTRONG WHITWORTH Production at HAMBLE
(http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/ah1900/avawprod.html)
(accessed 23 May 2011).
- De Havilland D.H. 9A day bomber. "Flight Vic", 3
planes in close formation, 1922.
- De Havilland D.H. 66 Hercules (G-EBMW), as used by
Imperial Airways on the Cairo-Basra service, 1928. Note:
crashed near Koepang, April 19, 1931.
- Dornier Do.X flying boat, 1929.
- Fairey long-range monoplane (K1991), 1931.
- Hawker Hart day bomber (J9937), 1930.
- Short S8 Calcutta flying boat (G-EBVG), 1929.
- (recto, top): Short [S.184] Seaplane off
Lee-on-Solent, 1920.
(recto, bottom): Sopwith
Camel flying off ship's deck, 1920
(verso,
bottom): Royal Aircraft Factory B.E. 2e [1916] in flight
doing contact patrol.
- Vickers Virginia night bomber (1922). Note: 2
copies.
- Saudi Arabia, Arabian Survey flight, typical coastal
country, circa 1925.
- Iraq, circa 1925.
(recto): Rowanduz country,
Kurdistan.
(verso): Hinaidi Aerodrome (near
Bagdad).
Box 43, Folder 13
Caproni aircraft.
1921-1935.
Contents:
- Caproni Ca. 60. 1921. 1 lithograph : 19 x 23
in.
- Caproni Ca. 90 P.B. 1930. 1 lithograph : 19 x 23
in.
- Caproni Ca. 97. A comandi riuniti. Circa 1931. 1
lithograph : 19 x 23 in.
- Caproni Ca. 100. Reg. No. I-AAYC. 1935. 1 lithograph :
19 x 23 in.
- Caproni Ca. 101 Tr.C. Reg. No. I-ALBA. 1931. 1
lithograph : 19 x 23 in.
- Caproni Ca. 113 Acrobazia. Circa 1932. 1 lithograph :
19 x 23 in.
Box 43, Folder 13-14
Charles A. Lindbergh.
1927.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 43, Folder 13
Einar Kverone, "We" poster. 1927.
1927.
General Physical Description note: 1 poster : color ; 24 x 18 in.
Note:
Gift of Amelia Rankin, 1985.
Box 43, Folder 14
Bowmans Studio, Image of Charles A. Lindbergh
commemorative sculpture by unknown artist.
Circa 1927.
General Physical Description note: 1 lithograph : 19.5 x 15 in. (image 13 x 9 in.).
Box 43, Folder 16
Capt. Albert W. Stevens, "The first photograph ever made
showing the division between the troposphere and the
stratosphere and also the actual curvature of the
earth-photographed from an elevation of 72,395 feet, the highest
point ever reached by man".
1936.
General Physical Description note: 1
print : 16.75 x 24 in.
Note:
Copyright Supplement to the
National
Geographic
magazine, May, 1936.
Box 4, Folder 2
The Thompson Trophy. "Winners All" (pilots and planes
that have finished first in Thompson Trophy races, 1930 to
1937).
Circa 1937.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph : color ; 11.5 x 14 in.
Note:
Cleveland, OH: Thompson Products, circa 1937.
Box 4, Folder 3
Bristol Beaufort.
1939.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph : color ; 8.5 x 11.25 in.
Box 4, Folder 4-6, Box 44, Folder 1-4
Consolidated Vultee aircraft.
Circa
1941-1945.
Physical Description:
7 folders.
Box 44, Folder 1
Consolidated Vultee Valiant. Army, Navy and Marine
Corps basic trainer.
Circa 1941.
General Physical Description note: 1 print : color ; 14 x 16 in.
Material Specific Details note: MOLD.
Note:
San Diego, CA: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp, circa
1941.
Box 44, Folder 2
Vultee Valiant. U.S. Army, Navy basic
trainer.
Circa 1941.
General Physical Description note: 1 print : color ; 15.25 x 18 in.
Material Specific Details note: MOLD.
Note:
San Diego, CA: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp, circa
1941.
Box 44, Folder 3
Vultee Valiant. U.S. Army, Navy basic
trainer.
Circa 1941.
General Physical Description note: 1 print : color; 15.5 x 18 in.
Material Specific Details note: MOLD.
Note:
San Diego, CA: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp, circa
1941.
Box 44, Folder 4
Vultee Vanguard Pursuit.
Circa 1941.
General Physical Description note: 1 print : color ; 15.5 x 18 in.
Material Specific Details note: MOLD.
Note:
San Diego, CA: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp, circa
1941.
Box 4, Folder 4
Berlin Express. Vultee "Vengeance" Dive
Bomber.
Circa 1941.
General Physical Description note: 1 print : color; 15.25 x 16 in.
Note:
San Diego, CA: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp, circa
1941.
Box 4, Folder 5
Vultee Vengeance Dive Bomber.
Circa 1941.
General Physical Description note: 1 print : color ; 15.25 x 18 in.
Note:
San Diego, CA: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp, circa
1941.
Box 4, Folder 6
Consolidated Vultee aircraft.
Circa 1945.
General Physical Description note: 12 lithographs : color ; 15 x 18 in.
Note:
San Diego, CA: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp, circa
1945.
Contents:
- Liberator [B-24 long-range bomber] (2
copies).
- Liberator Express [C-87 transport] (2
copies).
- Coronado [PB2Y-3R transport] (2 copies).
- Catalina PBY [patrol bomber] (2 copies).
- Valiant [BT-13A trainer] (2 copies).
- Stinson Sentinel [L-5 "flying jeep"] (2
copies).
Box 4, Folder 7
Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, Calif., For Your
Personal Collection.Color lithographs of the planes you help
build.
Circa 1948.
General Physical Description note: 6
lithographs : color ; 11 x 14 in.
Contents:
- U.S. Navy P2V-Lockheed Neptune.
- Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star.
- Lockheed Two Place Shooting Star.
- Military Air Transport Service Constellation.
- U.S. Navy R60-Lockheed Constitution.
- Lockheed Constellation
Box 4, Folder 9
Computer-generated renderings of "flying wing" U.S.
military aircraft.
Circa 1980.
General Physical Description note: 2
computer printouts : color ; 18.5 x 13 in.
Subsubseries 1.2.3:
20th-Century Artists.
1903-circa
1950.
Physical Description:
16 folders + 1 volume.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by artist's surname.
Scope and Contents note
This subsubseries comprises reproductions of works of art on aviation
themes by 20th-century artists. It is arranged alphabetically by
artist. The bulk of the materials consists of reproductions of
paintings by Charles H. Hubbell, published by Thompson Products, an
aircraft parts supplier in Cleveland, Ohio, and sponsor of the
Thompson Flying Trophy. The materials were published in portfolios,
most commonly of 12 prints. The portfolios are arranged
chronologically, by date of event pictured, from famous civilian
airplanes, 1903-1914, to U.S. World War II military aircraft. Other
materials include 13 hand-colored pochoir prints, 1908-1910, by
French artists Ernest Montaut and his wife Marguerite Montaut (who
also signed her work as "Gamy"); a portfolio of paintings by Arthur
Beaumont of U.S. World War II warships under aerial attack; a
painting of aerial combat signed "Henri Farré, 1915"; four
watercolors by Albert Leroux on French ballooning, 1783-1864; an
album of illustrations by Henry B. Maas,
Airplanes in action, circa 1934; and Stratford Edward
St. Leger's painting, "War balloon on the march", circa 1900.
Box 4, Folder 10
[Beaumont, Arthur.] Our Fighting Navy. Color
reproductions of paintings by Arthur Beaumont.
c1944.
General Physical Description note: 8
lithographs : color; 10 x 13.25 in.
Contents:
- Air Raid (U.S.S.
Enterprise).
- Camouflaged Majesty (U.S.S.
Alabama).
- Confidential Mission (U.S.S.
San
Diego
).
- Jap Nemesis (U.S.S.
Louisville).
- Mosquito Patrol off Aleutians (Motor Torpedo
Boats).
-
Sea Terrier (Destroyer
Escort).
- Smoke Screen (Destroyer).
- Task Force (U.S.S.
Cleveland).
Box 4, Folder 11
Farré, Henri. Painting of aerial combat.
1915.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph : color; 10.75 x 14.5 in. [on mount 12 x 15.5
in.].
Note:
Not identified in Farré's
Sky Fighters of
France
(1919).
Box 4, Folder 19
Goff, Harper. Douglas "Skymaster", Amy C-54
Transport.
1944.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph : color; 13.75 x 18.75 in. 2 copies.
Box 4, Folder 12-17
Hubbell, Charles H.
Physical Description:
6 folders.
Box 4, Folder 12
Reproductions of paintings of famous civilian
airplanes.
1903-1914.
General Physical Description note: 12 lithographs : color; 15.5 x 16.5 in.
Note:
Cleveland, OH: Thompson Products, n.d.
Contents:
- Wright Biplane - 1903.
- "Bird of Prey" [Santos-Dumont No. 14] -
1906.
- Avroplane - 1909.
- Bleriot Monoplane - 1909.
- Caproni - 1909.
- Grade Monoplane - 1909.
- Martin Biplane - 1909.
- H. Farman Biplane - 1910.
- Curtiss Hydro - 1911.
- Fokker "Spider" - 1912.
- Sikorsky "Grand" - 1913.
- Benoist Flying-Boat - 1914.
Box 4, Folder 13
Reproductions of paintings of famous civilian "first
flights".
1921-1930.
General Physical Description note: 12 lithographs : color; 13.25 x 16.5 in.
Note:
Cleveland, OH: Thompson Products, n.d.
Contents:
- First Transcontinental Night Air Mail - 1921; San
Francisco to New York City; Pilot, Jack Knight; U.S.
Post Office Dept., De Havilland 4.
- First Round-the-World Flight - 1924; Lieut. Lowell
H. Smith and Lieut. Eric H. Nelson, U.S. Army,
Douglas "Cruisers".
- "Dawn-to-Dusk" Transcontinental - 1924; New York
to San Francisco, Lieut. Russell L. Maughan, U.S.
Army, Curtiss PW-8.
- First Pan-American Good Will Flight - 1926; Maj.
Herbert A. Dargue, U.S. Army, in command, Loening
Amphibians.
- Four-Continent Flight - 1927; Europe, Africa,
South and North America, Marchesi de Pinedo, Italy,
Savoia S-55 Flying Boat.
- New York to Paris - 1927; Charles A. Lindbergh,
"The Spirit of St. Louis", Ryan Monoplane.
- California to Australia - 1928; Squadron Leader
Charles Kingsford-Smith, "The Southern Cross",
Fokker Monoplane.
- First South Pole Flight - 1929; Com. Richard E.
Byrd, "The Floyd Bennett", Ford Tri-Motor.
- First Thompson Trophy Race Winner - 1929; National
Air Races, Cleveland, Douglas Davis, Travelair
"Mystery Ship".
- Paris to New York - 1930; Dieudonné Costes and
Maurice Bellonte, France, Breguet "Question
Mark".
- Non-Stop Refueling Flight - 1930; 647 Hours,
Forest O'Brine and Dale Jackson, "The Greater St.
Louis", Curtiss Robin.
- First Transcontinental Passenger Service - 1930;
Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., Ford
Tri-Motor.
Box 4, Folder 14
Reproductions of paintings of winners of the Thompson
Trophy Race.
1929-1939.
General Physical Description note: 11 lithographs : color; 13.25 x 14.5 in.
Note:
Cleveland, OH: Thompson Products, n.d.
Contents:
- Douglas Davis, "Mystery Ship", 1929.
- Charles W. Holman, Laird Solution, 1930.
- Lowell Bayles, Gee Bee Super-Sportster,
1931.
- James H. Doolittle, Gee Bee Super-Sportster,
1932.
- James R. Weddell, Wedell-Williams, 1933.
- Roscoe Turner, Wedell-Williams Special,
1934.
- Harold Neumann, Howard "Special", 1935.
- Michael Detroyat, Caudron racer, 1936.
- Rudy A. Kling, Folkerts, 1937.
- Roscoe Turner, Turner-Laird Special, 1938.
- Roscoe Turner, Turner-Laird Special, 1939.
Box 4, Folder 15
Reproductions of paintings of American
aircraft.
1938-circa
1950.
General Physical Description note: 5 lithographs : color; 11.5 x 14 in.
Note:
Cleveland, OH: Thompson Products, n.d.
Contents:
- "Roscoe Turner Wins!" (ninth Thompson Trophy Race,
Cleveland, Ohio, September 5th, 1938).
- "Skysleeper at Dawn" (American Airlines) Douglas
DST, Wright "Cyclone" engines. Painting by Charles
H. Hubbell.
- "Lewis and Clark Trail-1939" (Northwest Airlines)
Lockheed 14, Pratt & Whitney "Hornet" engines.
Painting by Charles H. Hubbell.
- "Atlantic Clipper-Europe Bound!" (Pan
AmericanAirways) Boeing 314, Wright twin-row
"Cyclone"engines. Painting by Charles H.
Hubbell.
- "... on time over Cheyenne" (United Airlines)
Douglas DC-4, Pratt & Whitney twin-row "Hornet"
eingines. Painting by Charles H. Hubbell.
Box 4, Folder 16
Reproductions of paintings of famous U.S. World War
II air battles.
December
1941-October 1942.
General Physical Description note: 12 lithographs : color; 13.25 x 16 in.
Note:
Cleveland, OH: Thompson Products, n.d.
Contents:
- Colin Kelly; Luzon, Philippine Islands, December,
1941; Boeing B-17C Flying Fortress; Mitsubishi 96
pursuits (U.S.Army Air Forces).
- "Sighted Sub, Sank Same"; Ensign Donald F. Mason;
North Atlantic Ocean, January, 1942; Lockheed
"Hudson" patrol bomber (U.S. Navy).
- "Butch" O'Hare; Lieut Comdr. Edward H. O'Hare;
Gilbert Islands, February, 1942; Grumman "Wildcat"
fighter; Mitsubishi 96 bombers (U.S. Navy).
- The New Burma Road; Brig. Gen. Earl L. Naiden,
commanding; India to China, March, 1942; Douglas
C-47 cargo planes (U.S. Army Air Transport
Command).
- The Flying Tigers; "Scarsdale Jack" Newkirk,
squadron commander; Cheingmai Airdrome, Thailand,
March, 1942; Curtiss P-40 fighters; Nakajima 96
pursuits (American Volunteer Group).
- Carribean Rescue; Ensign Francis Pinter; Carribean
Sea, April, 1942; Consolidated PBY Flying Boat (U.S.
Navy).
- Shangri-La to Tokyo; Brig. Gen. James H.
Doolittle, commanding; Tokyo, Japan, April, 1942;
North American B-25 bombers; Nakajima 97 pursuits
(U.S. Army Air Forces).
- Battle of Midway; Ensign G. H. Gay; Midway island,
June, 1942; Douglas TBD torpedo plane; Japanese Zero
fighters (U.S. Navy).
- Bombers over Benghazi; Maj. Gen. Lewis H.
Brereton, commanding; Benghazi, Egypt, July, 1942;
Consolidated B-24 bombers; Macchi C-200 fighters
(U.S. Army Air Forces).
- First U.S. Raid over Europe; Capt. Charles C.
Kegelman; Valkenburg, Netherlands, July 4, 1942;
Douglas A-20A light bombers; Focke-Wulf FW 190
pursuits (U.S. Army Air Forces).
- Mariners Over the Solomons; Maj. Richard Mangrum,
commanding; Solomon Islands, August, 1942; Douglas
SBD dive bombers (U.S. Marines).
- Caught at Kiska; Capt. M. A. Beth, Commanding;
Aleutian Islands, October 1942; Martin B-26
"Marauder" medium bombers (U.S. Army Air
Forces).
Box 4, Folder 17
Reproductions of paintings of U.S. World War II
military aircraft.
1941-1945
General Physical Description note: 12 lithographs : color; 13.25 x 14.75 in.
Note:
Cleveland, OH: Thompson Products, n.d.
Contents:
- Trouble Coming Up (U.S. Army): Bell P-39
interceptors, Allison engines.
- Mastiff and Terriers (U.S. Army): Boeing B-17A
bomber, four Wright "Cyclone" engines; Republic P-41
pursuits, Pratt & Whitney twin-row "Wasp"
engines.
- Coast Patrol (U.S. Navy): Consolidated PBY Flying
Boat, two Pratt & Whitney twin-row "Wasp"
engines.
- "X" marks the Spot (U.S. Army): Curtiss P-40
pursuit plane, Allison engine.
- Assignment Completed (U.S. Navy): Curtiss SBC-4
dive bomber, Wright "Cyclone" engine.
- ... and so Throught the Night (U.S. Army): Douglas
B-18 bombers, two Wright "Cyclone" engines.
- Into his Stacks (U.S. Navy): Douglas TBD-1 torpedo
bombers, Pratt & Whitney twin-row "Wasp"
engines.
- Over the Nest (U.S. Marine Corps): Grumman F3F-2
fighters, Wright "Cyclone" engines.
- Early Errand (U.S. Army): Lockheed P-38 pursuits,
two Allison engines.
- Over Camp Perry (National Guard): North America
O-48, Wright "Cyclone" engine.
- Catapult (U.S. Navy): Vought-Sikorsky OS2U-1
observation scout, Pratt & Whitney "Wasp, Jr."
engine.
- "Pylon Polisher": Roscoe Turner winning the 10th
annual Thompson Trophy Race, Cleveland Airport,
September 5th, 1939; Turner-Laird "Special", Pratt
& Whitney twin-row "Wasp, Sr." engine.
Box 1, Folder 37
JACK. "La Montgolfiere. A. 1800".
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
pen and ink wash [reproduction] : 6.5 x 9.75 in. [on mount 9 x
12 in.].
Box 4, Folder 1
Jacobs, William L. "The Rivals".
Circa 1910.
General Physical Description note: 1
print : 7 x 12 in. [on mount 12 x 15.75 in.]. From unidentified
periodical publication.
Box 1, Folder 38
Leroux, Albert.
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 1, Folder 38, Item 1
"Lancement de la Montgolfière, 1783" [Versailles
"animal ascent", September 19, 1783].
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 pen and in wash [reproduction] : 9 x 11 in. [including
mat].
Note:
Cf. William Lockwood Marsh,
Aeronautical Prints & Drawings (London:
Halton and Truscott Smith, 1924), plate 9.
Box 1, Folder 38, Item 2
"Accession des Fréres Robert, 1783" [ascent by
Jacques Charles and Noel Robert from the garden of the
Tuilleries, Paris, December 1, 1783].
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 pen and ink wash [reproduction] : 9 x 11 in. [including
mat].
Note:
Cf. William Lockwood Marsh,
Aeronautical Prints & Drawings (London:
Halton and Truscott Smith, 1924), plate 16.
Box 1, Folder 38, Item 3
"Aérostat de Guyton de Morveau, 1784" [Ascent by
Guyton de Morveau and the abbé Bertrand in the balloon
"l'Académie-de-Dijon", Dijon, April 25, 1784].
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 pen and ink wash [reproduction] : 9 x 11.25 in.
[including mat].
Note:
Cf. Charles Dollfus and Henri Bouché,
Histoire de l'aéronautique (Paris:
l'Illustration, 1932), p.39.
Box 1, Folder 38, Item 4
"L'Aigle d'Eugène Godard, 1864" [Eugène Godard's
balloon "Eagle"].
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 pen and ink wash [reproduction] : 9 x 11.25 in.
[including mat].
Book Collection: Aviation Folio TL554 .M112
Maas, Henry B. Airplanes in action; an album of
illustrations.
Circa 1934.
General Physical Description note: 22
leaves : 13 x 10.5 in.
Note:
Latest illustration dated 1934.
Box 46, Folder 1-2
Montaut, Ernest and Marguerite ["Gamy"]
1908-1910.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 46, Folder 1
Montaut, Ernest.
1908-1909.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 46, Folder 1, Item 1
"Wright au camp d'Auvours". E.
Montaut.
c1908.
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print : 16.25 x 32 in.
General note
Published Paris: Montaut & Mabileau, c1908.
Box 46, Folder 1, Item 2
"Raid Paris-Verdun / Le dirigeable 'Ville de
Paris'". E. Montaut.
[1908].
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print ; 16.25 x 34.25 in.
Box 46, Folder 1, Item 3
"Le 'Panhard et Levassor' / Gagnant du
championnat de la mer en 1908". E. Montaut.
[1908].
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print : 16.5 x 32.25 in.
General note
Published Paris: M.M. [Montaut & Mabileau],
[1908].
Box 46, Folder 1, Item 4
"Bleriot traversant la Manche / le 25 Juillet
1909". E. Montaut.
c1909.
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print : 16 x 32.5 in.
General note
Published Paris: [Montaut & Mabileau], c1909.
Box 46, Folder 1, Item 5
"Hubert Latham sur 'Antoinette'". E.
Montaut.
[1909].
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print ; 16.5 x 32.5 in.
General note
Published Paris: M.M. [Montaut & Mabileau],
[1909].
Box 46, Folder 1, Item 6
"En Reconnaissance / Le dirigeable et
l'auto-mitrailleuse / Bayard Clement". E.
Montaut.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print : 34 x 16.5 in.
General note
Published Paris: M.M. [Montaut & Mabileau], n.d.
Box 46, Folder 2
Montaut, Marguerite ["Gamy"].
1909-1910.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 46, Folder 2, Item 1
"L'air conquis". Gamy.
c1909.
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print : 16.25 x 31.5 in.
General note
Published Paris: Mabileau et Cie. c[19]09.
Box 46, Folder 2, Item 2
"Grand prix de la Champagne / Henri Farman le
gagnant sur son biplan / Moteur Gnome".
Gamy.
c1909.
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print : 17 x 33 in.
General note
Published Paris: Mabileau et Cie., c[19]09.
Box 46, Folder 2, Folder 3
"Meeting d'Heliopolis / Rougier le gagnant sur
biplan Voisin / Moteur E.N.V." Gamy.
c1910.
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print : 17 x 32.75 in.
General note
Published Paris: Mabeleau et Cie., c1910.
Box 46, Folder 2, Item 4
"Le Zodiac". Marguerite E. Montaut.
c1910.
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print : 17 x 32 in.
General note
Published Colombes: Montaut Aubois, c1910.
Box 46, Folder 2, Item 5
"L'aviateur Guyot a Moscow". Marguerite E.
Montaut 10.
c1910.
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print ; 16.5 x 32.25 in.
General note
Published Colombes: Montaut Aubois, c1910.
Box 46, Folder 2, Item 6
"Circuit de l’est / Leblanc, Aubrun et Legagneux
terminent seuls / La premiere grande course aerienne
(rout … [illegible]) / Preux Dunlop … [illegible]elice
'Integrale' Chauviere". Marguerite E. Montaut
1910.
c1910.
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print ; 33 x 17 in.
Box 46, Folder 2, Item 7
"Raid Londres-Manchester / Paulhan gagne le prix
du Daily-Mail". Marguerite E. Montaut.
c[19]10.
General Physical Description note: 1 hand-colored
pochoir print : 16.5 x 32.25 in.
Box 1, Folder 39
St. Leger, Stratford Edward. "War balloon on the
march".
Circa 1900.
General Physical Description note: 1
photographic print : color ; 6.25 x 8.75 in.
Note:
Together with Hedley V. MacKinnon,
War
sketches; reminiscences of the Boer war in South Africa
1899-1900
(Charlottetown, PEI: Examiner Pub. Co.,
1900), pp. 61-62.
Box 4, Folder 8
[Woodson, Jack.] Famous Aircraft 1903-1919 / Half Century
of Aircraft, 1920 to the Present Day. Reproductions of
photographs, and of paintings by Jack Woodson.
1970.
General Physical Description note: 1
poster : double-sided ; color ; 25 x 38 in. 3 copies.
Note:
Maplewood, NJ: Hammond Inc., c1970.
Donor:
Gift of the Disabled American Veterans, 1970.
Subseries 1.3:
Calendars.
1999.
Physical Description:
1 item.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries consists of a single calendar, the National Air and Space
Museum,
1999 Calendar: Milestones of
Flight
, with color photographs of 12 exhibits in the
National Air and Space Museum, from the Wright Brothers' 1903 flyer to
the Apollo 11 command module "Columbia" (1969).
Box 4, Folder 18
National Air and Space Museum. 1999 Calendar: Milestones of
Flight.
c1998
General Physical Description note: 1
calendar : color ; 12 x 13.25 in.
Note:
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, c1998.
Contents:
Photographs of the following exhibits in the National Air
and Space Museum:
- Wright Brothers' 1903 flyer.
- Fokker T-2, in which Lts. Oakley G. Kelley and John A.
Macready made the first nonstop transcontinental flight,
1923.
- Douglas World Cruiser "Chicago", in which Lts. Lowell H.
Smith and Leslie Arnold made the first round-the-world
flight, 1924.
- Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis", in which Charles A.
Lindbergh made the first solo transatlantic flight,
1927.
- Lockheed Vega 5B, in which Amelia Earhart became the first
woman to fly nonstop solo across both the Atlantic and the
United States, 1932.
- Boeing 247-D, the first modern airliner, 1933.
- Bell XP-59A Airacomet, the United States' first jet
aircraft, 1942.
- Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis", the first aircraft to fly
faster than the speed of sound, 1947.
- Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, first U.S. jet fighter in
service to fly at Mach 2, 1954.
- North American X-15A-1, first winged aircraft to reach
speeds of Mach 4, 5, and 6, and to fly at altitudes well
above 100,000 feet, 1959-1967.
- Gemini IV, that carried James A. McDivitt and Edward H.
White II in 1965 when White became the first American to
"walk" in space.
- Apollo 11 command module "Columbia", that carried Neil
Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin into lunar
orbit and back to Earth when Armstrong became the first
person to walk on the moon, 1969.
Subseries 1.4:
Plates removed from François-Louis Bruel,
Histoire aéronautique (Paris, 1909).
1783-1830
(bulk, 1783-1785).
Physical Description:
1 box + 2 items.
Arrangement note
Ordered by plate number.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries consists of plates removed from the copy of François-Louis
Bruel,
Histoire aéronautique par les monuments
peints, sculptés, dessinés et gravés, des origines à 1830
(Paris, 1909), cataloged as Special Collections Aviation TL515.B832. The
plates are arranged by number. Many are mounted on heavy card stock, and
may have been used as exhibits in the aeronautical exhibition at the
Claremont Colleges circa 1982. With four exceptions the plates reproduce
documents from the years 1783 and 1785 relating in particular to the
ascent of the Montgolfier balloon at Versailles, September 19, 1783;
various ascents by Jean-Pierre Blanchard, including his crossing of the
Channel with Dr. John Jeffries; the first balloon ascent at Strassbourg,
March 1784; the fatal ascent by the abbé Miolan in the Luxembourg
Gardens, Paris, in July 1784; the fatal accident to François Pilatre de
Rozier and Romain as they attempted to cross the Channel from France to
Britain in June 1785; and to Vincent Lombardi. Plate 140 (box 5, folder
18) reproduces a painting by Francesco Guardi of Count Francesco
Zambeccari's ascent over the Giudecca canal, Venice, for which the
drawing (possibly a forgery) in Subsubseries 1.2.2, box 1, folder 9, is
a preparatory study. Events after 1798 documented are an equestion
ascent by Pierre Testu-Brissy at Meudon, October 16, 1798; the
coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, December 3, 1804; the ascent by
James Sadler and Capt. Paget from the gardens of the mermaid Tavern,
Hackney, August 12, 1811; and an 1830 engraving of "Ballon de Fête
religieuse" at Frascati.
Box 5, Item 1
Plates 7/8 on 1 sheet - two views of Blanchard's vaisseau
volant, engraved and colored by Francois-Nicolas
Martinet.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 2
engravings [reproductions, on single mount] : 6.5 x 8.5
inches.
Box 5, Item 2
Plate 11 - Estampe satirique, "Aux Incrèdules de Paris",
directed against Blanchard.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 print
[reproduction, mounted] : 12 x 7.25 in.
Box 2, Item 23
Plate 34 - Engraving most probably printed by Johann Michael
Probst, of Augsburg, of the Montgolfier balloon that ascended at
Versailles on September 19, 1783.
1783
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction] : color ; 11.25 x 7.75 in.
Box 2, Item 24
Plate 35 - Ascent of the Montgolfier balloon at
Versailles.
September 19, 1783.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction] : 9.25 x 12.5 in.
Box 5, Item 5
Plates 42/43 on 1 sheet [extra copy].
Plate 42 -
Portrait of F. Pilatre de Rozier.
Plate 43 - Cachet Pilatre de
Rozier and the marquis d'Arlandes, dated November 21, 1783, the date
of their ascent at la Muette, with their initials and a
representation of the balloon.
1783.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction] : sepia ; 8.5 x 6 in. + 1 cachet
[reproduction] : green.
Box 5, Item 6
Plate 72 - Balloon in which Blanchard and the Benedictine
monk Page made an ascent on March 2, 1784.
1784.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction, mounted] : color ; 12 x 7.25 in.
Box 5, Item 7
Plate 86 - "Le veritable navigateur aerien", unrealized
project for a lighter than air machine by L .J. Stoupy de
Bijon.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction, mounted] : color ; 11 x 9 in.
Box 5, Item 8a-b
Plates 91/92 on 1 sheet.
Plate 91 - Receipt
[reproduction] for subscription in the amount of 6 livres to the
ascent of the abbé Miolan at the Luxembourg gardens on July 11,
1784.
Plate 92 - Entry ticket [reproduction] to the
ascent.
1784.
General Physical Description note: 2
copies.
Box 5, Item 9
Plate 93 - The burning of Miolan and Janinet's Balloon at the
Luxembourg gardens.
July 11, 1784.
General Physical Description note: 1 print
[reproduction] : sepia ; 10.25 x 10.25 in.
Box 5, Item 10
Plate 101 - Blanchard and Dr. Jeffries approaching Blanay
(between Calais and Boulogne) after crossing the English Channel
from Dover.
January 7, 1785.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction] : color ; 12 x 7.25 in.
Note:
See also Subsubseries 1.2.2, box 2, folder 6.
Box 5, Item 11
Plate 104 - "British Balloon and D[evilish] Aerial Yacht,
Destined for conveying the high Fliers of Fashion over the Channel,
from Dover to Calais ...".
December 13, 1784.
General Physical Description note: 1 print
[reproduction] : 12.5 x 8.75 in.
Box 5, Item 12
Plate 107 - "Vue de la Garenne du Roy à Vimereux, a cinq
quart de lieue de Boulogne sur Mer", the fatal accident to Pilatre
de Rozier and Romain as they attempt to cross the Channel from
France to Britain in an experimental balloon.
June 15, 1785.
General Physical Description note: 1 print
[reproduction] : black and white with color tint accents ; 10.5 x 7
in.
Box 5, Item 13
Plate 109 - "Experience Aërostatique", first balloon ascent
at Strassbourg.
March 1784.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction, mounted] : color ; 13 x 8.5 in.
Box 5, Item 14
Plate 115 - Map plus altitude cross-section of the voyage of
Blanchard and l'Epinard from Servon to Lille.
August 26, 1785.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction, mounted] : color ; 12 x 7.25 in.
Box 5, Item 15
Plates 126/127 on 1 sheet.
Plate 126 - Vincent Lunardi
with his dog and cat, November 1, 1784.
Plate 127 - Portrait
of Lunardi engraved by Francis Bartolozzi after a miniature by
Cosway, no date.
1784, n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving on silk [reproduction] : color + 1 engraving on silk
[reproduction].
Box 5, Item 16
Plate 133 - George Biggin, Madame Sage, and Vincent Lunardi,
ascent from St. George, May 13, 1785, engraved by Francis Bartolozzi
after John Francis Rignaud.
1785
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction] : 13 x 9.5 in.
Note:
See also Subsubseries 1.2.2, box 2, folder 7.
Box 5, Item 17
Plate 136 - "A View of the Balloon of Mr. Sadler's
Ascending", ascent by James Sadler and Capt. Paget from the gardens
of the mermaid Tavern at Hackney.
Monday, August 12, 1811.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction, mounted] : 13 x 10 in.
Box 5, Item 18
Plate 140 - Ascent by Count Francesco Zambeccari over the
Giudecca canal, Venice, from the tableau by Francesco
Guardi.
1783.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction] : 9.25 x 7 in.
Note:
See also Subsubseries 1.2.2, box 1, folder 9.
Box 5, Item 19
Plate 144 - "Ballon de Fête religieuse", at Frascati, 1830.
From a collection of lithographs by Thomas,
Un An à Rome.
1830.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph [reproduction, mounted] : color ; 10 x 8.5 in.
Box 5, Item 20
Plate 169 - Model of one of the four balloons launched from
the place de la Concorde during the coronation of Napoleon and
Josephine.
December 3, 1804.
General Physical Description note: 1
watercolor [reproduction, mounted] : 13 x 7.5 in.
Box 5, Item 21
Plate 173 - Equestrian ascent by Pierre Testu-Brissy at
Meudon.
October 16, 1798.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving [reproduction, mounted] : 6 x 4.5 in.
Box 5, Item 22 (top)
Plate 205 - "Neue Erfindung / Dampfmaschinen-Pferd / worauf
man in einer Stunde von Paris nach / Petersburg reiten
kann".
1828.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph [reproduction, mounted] : color ; 6 x 7.25 in.
Box 5, Item 22 (bottom)
Plate 206 - Man flying over white cliffs of English coast
with tea kettle strapped to his back.
Circa 1830.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph [reproduction, mounted] : color ; 7 x 6 in.
Series 2:
Photographs.
1883-1960
(bulk, 1909-1950).
Physical Description:
95 folders (2.2 boxes + 1 oversize box + 1 box of items affected by
mold).
Arrangement note
Organized into 6 subseries:
- Subseries 2.1: Collections, 1910-1938
- Subseries 2.2: People, 1883-1981
- Subseries 2.3: Air Meets, Air Shows and Historic Flights,
1910-1959
- Subseries 2.4: Individual Aircraft, circa 1845-1956
- Subseries 2.5: Airlines, circa 1930-1960
- Subseries 2.6: Airports, circa 1930
Scope and Contents note
This series comprises photographs and postcards relating to aviation,
particularly for the period 1909-1950. It includes photographs documenting
the Los Angeles Aviation Meet of January 1910, the Belmont Park Aviation
Meet of october 1910, the San Francisco Air Meet of January 1911, the
Radlett Air Show of September 1946, and the World Congress of Flight of
April 1959. A large number of photographs document individual aviators, in
particular, Arch Hoxey, the Wright brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and Clyde
Pangborn. The materials also include an 1883 autographed photograph of the
brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier with their airship, and images of
Matilde Moisant and Harriet Quimby, circa 1912. The bulk of the photographs
of individual aircraft relate to those of U.S., French, and German
manufacture, in particular, Consolidated Aircraft (later Consolidated
Vultee, popularly known as Convair), 1923-1956; S.N.C.A.S.O., 1950-1958; and
the Dornier DoX flying boat of 1930. The photographs include images of the
airships USS Akron, Columbia, and Mayflower, and of the LZ127 "Graf
Zeppelin". A number of postcards published circa 1930 depict historic
aircraft and models in the Science Museum, London, including Henson and
Stringfellow's flying machine of 1844-1845, Sir Hiram Maxim's 1894 flying
machine, and biplanes by (inter alia) Voisin, Farman, Avro, Bristol, De
Havilland, and Fairey. A small number of photographs document several U.S.
airlines and Deruluft (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrs AG), which flew
between Berlin and Moscow between 1929 and 1936; as well as the
Zentralflughafen, Berlin, and Le Bourget airport, Paris, circa 1930.
Subseries 2.1:
Collections.
1910-1938
(bulk, 1930-1931).
Physical Description:
17 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries comprises groups of photographs, each group obtained from
a single source, kept together in order to preserve their context. The
subseries contains three such collections.
The W. A. Sloan collection was found in an envelope from W. A. Sloan, 159
N. Evergreen, Ventura, California, addressed to Roy W. Judd, 4602 N.
Laurens Ave., Baldwin Park, California. The photographs date from the
period 1910-1912 and primarily concern the aviator Arch Hoxsey (d.
1910); other photographs relate to the Belmont Park Aviation Meet,
October 1910, while the remaining are unidentified.
The Newswire company photograph collection was found in the basement of
Mabel Shaw Bridges Auditorium in May 1962. It consists of photographs
taken by photographic news agencies, in particular International News
Photos and International Newsreel. The photographs date from 1918
through 1938, with the majority dating from January 1930 through
February 1931; they are arranged chronologically. They concern the major
aviation events and leading aviators-with special emphasis on female
aviators-of the time. The events include the launch of the Dornier DO-X
Flying Shark seaplane; the first non-stop airplane crossing from Paris
to New York, by Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte; the transatlantic
flight from Italy to Brazil led by Italian Air Minister General Italo
Balbo; the 1930 US visit of Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller; and the 1931
Schneider Cup race at Calshot, Great Britain. The aviators include Jimmy
Angel, Florence Lowe ("Pancho") Barnes, the Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce,
Juanita Burns, Marga von Etzdorf, Frank Hawks, Lady Drummond Hay, Mike
Murphy, and "Bobby" Trout and Edna May Cooper. The photographs include
several of couples who were married in airplanes aloft. Other
photographs depict contemporary politicians, socialites, and film stars
and starlets alighting from or ascending into airplanes.
Two panoramic photographs were found in the basement of Honnold Library
in 2010. One depicts the formal reception for flyers from the USSR held
by the Los Angeles city authorities and Chamber of Commerce in 1937; the
other documents the 26th annual convention of the American Legion,
Department of California, in Los Angeles in 1944.
Box 6, Folder 1-3
W. A. Sloan collection of photographs on early
aviation.
Circa
1910-1912.
Physical Description:
3 folders.
Custodial History note
Photographs found in an envelope from W. A. Sloan, 159 N. Evergreen,
Ventura, Calif., addressed to Roy W. Judd, 4602 N. Laurens Ave.,
Baldwin Park, Calif., n.d. [right end torn off]. 1970's library
catalog card in envelope marked "21 photos".
Box 6, Folder 1
Arch Hoxsey.
Circa 1910.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 1
Wright Flyer on race track [possibly Belmont Park
Aviation Meet, October 30. 1910].
Circa 1910.
General Physical Description note: 1 postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in. Marked on front in pen: "Hoxsey
in Wright".
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 2
Wright Flyer.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 2.5 x 4.25 in. Marked on front in pen:
"Hoxsey".
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 3
Wright Flyer in flight.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 3.5 x 5.5 in. Marked on front in pen:
"Hoxsey in air".
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 4
"Hoxsey in the Clouds".
c1910.
General Physical Description note: 1 postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Copyright 1910 Cole & Co.
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 5
Portrait [? of Arch Hoxsey] with
trophies.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 2.75 x 4.5 in.
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 6
Hoxsey in flying suit checks biplane prior to
flight.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 5.5 x 3.25 in. Marked "No. 2" on
back.
Note:
Possibly at Belmont Park Aviation Meet, October 30, 1910.
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 7
Hoxsey in flying suit escorted off field after
flight.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in. Marked "No. 10" on
back.
Note:
Possibly at Belmont Park Aviation Meet, October 30, 1910.
Box 6, Folder 2
Belmont Park Aviation Meet.
October 30, 1910.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
General Physical Description note: 7
photographs, all stamped 8312 on back.
Box 6, Folder 2, Item 1
Four airplanes (identified L to R as Antoinette,
Curtiss, Wright, and Bleriot) in air.
October 30, 1910.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph.
Box 6, Folder 2, Item 2-6
Photographs of Antoinette aircraft.
October 30, 1910.
General Physical Description note: 5 photographs.
Box 6, Folder 2, Item 7
Unidentified man in Wright Flyer.
October 30, 1910.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph.
Box 6, Folder 3
Other photographs.
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 6, Folder 3, Item 1-2
2 different men in same airplane.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 2 postcards : 3.5 x 5.5 in. Postcard no. 1 [possibly Arch
Hoxsey] marked "No. 1.a." on back.
Box 6, Folder 3, Item 3-4
Photographs marked on front in pen:
"Farman".
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 2.75 x 4.25 in. + 1 photograph : 3.5 x 5.5
in.
Box 6, Folder 4-16
Newswire company photographs.
1918,
1927,
1929-1931,
1936-1938
(bulk, 1930-1931).
Physical Description:
13 folders.
Custodial History note
Found in the basement of Mabel Shaw Bridges Auditorium in May
1962.
Box 6, Folder 4
News photographs.
1918,
1927,
1929.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 6, Folder 4, Item 1
Attaching bombs to the underside of a
biplane.
December 17, 1918.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6.5 x 8.5 in.
Note:
International News Photos, No. 81159.
Box 6, Folder 4, Item 2
Leonard W. Bonney, designer of the Bonney Gull
plane.
March 31, 1927.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 10 x 8 in.
Note:
International Newsreel.
Box 6, Folder 4, Item 3
Martin Jensen, attempting to break flight endurance
record in plane "Green Flash".
March 28, 1929.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International Newsreel.
Box 6, Folder 4, Item 4
Donald Babcock and Marjorie Klinger, who parachuted
from an airplane immediately after being married, with
Eugene Flanagan, JP, who performed the marriage
aloft.
November 25, 1929.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 5-10
News photographs.
1930.
Physical Description:
6 folders.
Box 6, Folder 5, Item 1
Mrs. Robert H. Gray, with 14-month-old son Robert,
Jr. Shortly after the photograph was taken, Mrs. Gray and
her husband, Lt. Robert H. Gray, British World War I ace and
branch manager of the Texas Air Transport, were killed in
the crash of the plane "Miss Amarillo". Amarillo,
TX.
January 2, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 5, Item 2
Joe Nikrent, timer for the National Aeronautic
Association, and Florence Lowe ("Pancho") Barnes, after Mrs.
Barnes became the women's world champion speed pilot at
196.19 miles an hour. Los Angeles, CA.
August 5, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International Newsreel.
Box 6, Folder 5, Item 3
Flight crew of the Dornier DO-X Flying Shark seaplane
before its departure on its transatlantic flight from
Friedrichshaven, Germany, to New York. Friedrichshafen,
Germany.
August 23, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.
Note:
(L to R) Lt. C. H. Schildhauer, ex-United States Navy, pilot;
Capt. Horst Herz, German Lufthansa, pilot; Capt. Froederich
Christian Christiansen, commander; _____ Wagener, pilot.
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 5, Item 4
Dieudonne Coste on the shoulders of the crowd at
Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream, Long Island, after making,
with his partner Maurice Bellonte, the first non-stop
airplane crossing from Paris to New York. Valley Stream,
Long Island, NY.
September 2, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 5, Item 5
Admission card to dinner at the Olympic Hotel,
Seattle, honoring Dieudonne Coste and Maurice
Bellonte.
September 24, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 card ; 2.25 x 3.75 in. Written on the reverse: "Did not
come here, but turned back on account of fog".
Box 6, Folder 5, Item 6
Mrs. Aline Hoffheimer Bamberger, NY artist, who won a
divorce from her husband, stockbroker L. Richard Bamberger,
at Reno, NV.
October 22, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.
Note:
Pacific & Atlantic Photos.
Box 6, Folder 6, Item 1
Mrs. Adele K. Cleaver, British aviator and society
leader, who flew from London to India, in front of her
airplane during her pleasure tour of the United States.
Syracuse, NY.
October 24, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 6, Item 2
British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald being helped
out of his great coat, after arriving at the Croydon Air
Display from Chequers by plane. Croydon,
England.
October 25, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
Graphic Photo Union.
Box 6, Folder 6, Item 3
Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller, Australian aviator, standing
on the wing of her monoplane at Curtiss Airport, Valley
Stream, Long Island, after establishing a new west-east
flight record of 21 hours 47 minutes. Valley Stream,
NY.
October 26, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 6, Item 4
Aerial view of Sofia, Bulgaria, showing the Greek
Orthodox cathedral of St. Alexander of Neva, to be the scene
of the marriage of King Boris of Bulgaria and Princess
Giovanna of Italy. Sofia, Bulgaria.
October 30, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 6, Item 5
Lady Drummond Hay, aviator and journalist, with her
secretary, in her specially outfitted Pussmoth plane.
London, England.
October 31, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
Wide World Photos.
Box 6, Folder 7, Item 1
Men and women at Chicago municipal airport, waiting
for planes to carry them to Detroit, where they will
purchase cars and drive them back. Chicago, IL.
October 31, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 7, Item 2
Martha C. Bevins waving from Pacer monoplane during
trial flight prior to departing on attempt to break
trans-continental flight record of Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller.
North Beach, Long Island, NY.
November 3, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 7, Item 3
J. G. Cates, of the Curtiss Company of Cuba,
welcoming Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller on her arrival at Havana
from Pittsburgh, PA, in a flying time of 12 hours 8 minutes.
Havana, Cuba.
November 26, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 7, Item 4
Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller, reported missing on her
return flight from Havana, Cuba, to Pittsburgh, PA. New
York.
November 28, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 7, Item 5
William Beard, of New Milford, CT, son of authors
Charles and Mary Beard, at work at the District of Columbia
Air legion Headquarters, where he is a student. Washington,
DC.
November 28, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 8, Item 1-2
Official at General Machado Airport, Havana, Cuba,
supervising loading of food, water, blankets, and rubber
life boats in one of the two planes sent out to search for
Mrs. J. M. Keither-Miller, reported missing on her return
flight from Havana to Pittsburgh, PA. Havana,
Cuba.
December 1, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 2 photographs : 8 x 10 inches.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 8, Item 3
Italian Air Minister General Italo Balbo (right)
confers with Commandant Umberto Maddalena (middle),
commander of Italy's seaplane forces, on the route to be
followed by the squadron of 12 Italian Air Corps seaplanes
on their impending flight from Italy to Brazil. Orbetello,
Italy.
December 3, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 8, Item 4
Seaplane No. 1 (twin-hulled Savoia Marchetti, with
Isotta Fraschini motors), in which General Italo Balbo will
lead the Squadron of 12 Italian Air Corps seaplanes on their
transatlantic flight to Brazil. Orbetello,
Italy.
December 3, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 8, Item 5
Heavyweight fighter W. L. (Young) Stribling (left)
and Louis Bevier, race official, as Stribling signs the
first entry blank for the Miami All-American Air Meet to be
held in January 1931. Miami, FL.
December 3, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 8, Folder 8, Item 6
F. A. Diekhoff, Oakland and New York businessman, who
plans to ship his plane from San Francisco to the orient,
where he will make a 20,000 solo flight from Yokohama,
touring the leading cities and settlements of Japan, China,
Indo-China, Siam, the Phillipine Islands, Java, Borneo, New
Guinea, Sumatra, Malay States, India, and Ceylon. Oakland,
CA.
December 3, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 9, Item 1
Marga von Etzdorf at the Berlin Airport in the
single-seater Junker plans in which she plans to fly across
the Atlantic, from Berlin via Spain, Africa, and Teneriffa
to South America. Berlin, Germany.
December 3, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 9, Folder 9, Item 2
Five of the 12 Savoia Marchetti twin-hulled seaplanes
of the Italian Air Forces, now in final tests for their
trans-Atlantic flight to Brazil. Orbetello,
Italy.
December 3, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 12 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 9, Item 3
Pilots of "Striking Eagles" Fighting Plane Squadron
3, of the carrier Lexington, winners of the Herbert Schiff
memorial Trophy for the year ending in July 1930, for flying
their gas-powered Boeing fighters 4958 hours and 600,000
miles, and making 861 take-offs and landings on the
Saratoga, Lexington, and Langley without accident. Los
Angeles, CA.
December 5, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 10 x 8 in.
Note:
Front row, left to right: Lts. R. F. Hazelton, medical corps;
C. H. Quinn, C. H. Lewis, and W E. Gladding; Lt. Comdr. G.
F. Bogan, commanding officer; Lts. E. W. Litch, Appolo
Soucek, R. R. Darron, and F. Bunner. Rear row, left to
right: Ens. R. H. Callahan and Lts. F. N. Taylor, R. S.
Purvis, W. T. Stucky, R. B. Pirie, F. L. Busey, J. P. Heath,
P. H. Ramsey, and W. E. Rodee. Internatonal Newsreel.
Box 6, Folder 9, Item 4
British and Canadian visitors to Mitchel Field, Long
Island, standing beside a Curtiss Falcon biplane. Left to
right: Lt. August Kissner; Wing Commander J.
Twisstleton-Fiennes, British Air Attache at Washington; Lt.
Christy Mathewson, Jr., son of the famous ball player;
Squadron Leader L. Ferrier, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Mitchel Field, NY.
December 6, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 9, Item 5
Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller congratulated by friends upon
arriving at Miami from Andros Island in the Bahamas. Miami,
FL.
December 7, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 10 x 8 in.
Note:
Left to right: John Liggett, 3rd, official of Aerial
Enterprises, Pittsburgh; Capt. W. N. Lancaster; City manager
Frank H. Wharton of Miami; Mrs. Keither-Miller; Donald
Vandewater, who flew Mrs. Keith-Miller from Andros Island to
Miami. International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 10, Item 1
Bob Perlick, Ed. Frame, Sam Hopkins, Paul Wiser,
George Schleppey, and Jimmy Angel at Grand Central Air
Terminal, Los Angeles, in front of high-winged Albatross
monoplane powered by three Western Enterprises 170 hp
seven-cylinder radial motors, in which they intend to beat
the world's refueling endurance record of 647 hours 28
minutes 30 seconds. Los Angeles, CA.
December 13, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International Newsreel.
Box 6, Folder 10, Item 2
John Hodgedon, teacher of vocational training in Long
Beach, CA, schools, with model of "Zepperplane". Long Beach,
CA.
December 18, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International Newsreel.
Box 6, Folder 10, Item 3
Cameraman Adolph L. Shafer, actress Dorothy
Sebastian, actor William "Bill" Boyd, and Mrs. Shafer,
leaving Los Angeles on a Transcontinental Western Air
Express plane for Las Vegas, where Sebastian and Boyd intend
to be married. Los Angeles, CA.
December 19, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 10 x 8 in.
Note:
International Newsreel.
Box 6, Folder 10, Item 4
Harry A. Bruno, aviation publicist, who handled
Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight, the Graf Zeppelin, and
the flights of Capt. Frank M. Hawks, and his wife, Nydia
D'Arnell, at Miami, where they will attend the air races to
be held January 8-10. Miami, FL.
December 26, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 10, Item 5
Juanita Burns climbing into the cockpit of her Cub
monoplane in a test flight before her attack on the women's
high altitude record of 21,598 feet held by the late Ruth
Alexander. Los Angeles, CA.
December 28, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 7 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 10, Item 6
Noted woman flyers who took part in an air parade
around New York as part of the drive for the Salvation
Army's $400,000 job relief fund.
December 28, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
Left to right: Mrs. H. Porter Bairn, "the Grandmother Pilot";
Mrs. Opal Kunz; Miss Manila Davis (in cockpit); Mrs. Samuel
Adams Clark, chairman of the Women's Emergency Aid Committee
of the drive; Betty Huyler Gillies. International News
Photos.
Box 6, Folder 11-14
News photographs.
1931.
Physical Description:
4 folders.
Box 6, Folder 11, Item 1
Left to right: Mrs. Emil Janne, witness; Miss Ruth
Bradfield, the bride; A. J. Creekmore, the bridegroom; and
Hadley Creekmore, the best man, at the Wichita Air Field,
just before going aloft for the marriage ceremony in the
Travelaire monoplane "Romancer" (which Charles A. Lindbergh
used during his courtship of Anne Morrow). Wichita,
KS.
January 3, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 11, Item 2
Front: Bobby Trout and Edna May Cooper (both
endurance plane); back: Bud Hussey (pilot of the re-fueling
plane), Ralph De Rose (co-pilot of the re-fueling plane),
Paul Thomas (flight manager), in front of the plane "Lady
Rolph", before Trout and Cooper made their second attempt to
set a new endurance flight record. Los Angeles,
CA.
January 5, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 11, Item 3
Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lt. William S. MacLaren, flanked
by Commander W. H. Stiles and Lt. C. C. Champion, of the
Hampton Roads, where Hart and MacLaren were forced to pause
on their projected transatlantic flight in the seaplane
"Tradewind" because of a shortage of cash and a leaky oil
tank. Norfolk, VA.
January 5, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 11, Item 4
Instructor Richard P. Mogle teaching airplane
construction to cadets of the Black Foxe Military Academy.
Los Angeles, CA.
January 7, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 11, Item 5
The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, British aviator, who flew
from London to Japan, in her Bluebird biplane on her arrival
at Los Angels from Seattle. Los Angeles, CA.
January 17, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 12, Item 1
Aerial view of the harbor at Natal, Brazil, showing
six of the ten Italian seaplanes that under the command of
General Italo Balbo successfully completed the transatlantic
flight from Orbetello, Italy (departed December 17, 1930),
to Brazil (arrived Natal, January 6, 1931). Two planes
crashed, with the loss of five lives. Natal,
Brazil.
January 20, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 12, Item 2
Interior picture of the experimental metal-clad
dirigible ZMC-2, looking toward the nose. Detroit,
MI.
January 21, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 12, Item 3
Seaplane G-CASK, abandoned for a year in the arctic
ice, after carrying its passengers over the north magnetic
pole. Toronto, Canada.
January 22, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 12, Item 4
Air Union Liner partially submerged in a marsh after
making a forced landing in Kent during a flight from Croydon
to Paris. Kent, England.
January 28, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 12, Item 5
Joseph Jones, 19-year-old aviator, standing beside
the small plane in which he flew from the United States to
the Bahamas. Nassau, Bahamas.
January 28, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 13, Item 1
Former governors John Trumbull of Connecticut and
Harry Flood Byrd of Virgina flank Miss Antonie Strassman,
German aviator, who took them aloft in an amphibian plane.
St. Petersburg, FL.
January 29, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 13, Item 2
The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, British aviator, upon her
arrival at Curtiss Airport after completing a tour of the
world in which all overland travel was made in her Bluebird
biplane. New York.
February 5, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
General note
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 13, Item 3
Tolger Hoirliss, Danish aviator, who is preparing for
a non-stop flight from Old Orchard, ME, to Copenhagen, DK,
in a Bellanca cabin monoplane.
[February 6, 1931].
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 13, Item 4
The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce standing on the wing of
her Bluebird biplane at Curtiss Airport upon the completion
February 5, 1931, of her world tour in which all overland
travel was made by air. New York.
February 6, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 13, Item 5
Aviation students at Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream,
Long Island, before boarding six planes for Miami. Curtiss
Airport, Long Island, NY.
February 10, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
Left to right: Karl Kail, of Binghampton, NY: Gordon Silva,
Valley Stream; Lt. J. H. L. Trunk, chief instructor for the
school; Mrs. Trunk; Donald Craig, of Ambler, PA; George
Grimm, the Bronx, NY; R. G. Jaekel, Plainfield, NJ; Henry
Ottinger; August Lauer, of Glen Cove, Long Island; Norman
Potter, of Ridgewood; and James Donohue, of Valley Stream.
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 14, Item 1
A. Felix Dupont. New York.
February 10, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 14, Item 2
Mrs. Helen Bertaud, widow of aviator Lloyd Bertaud,
who lost his life in an attempt to fly from Maine to Rome,
and who is to be married on February 12, 1931, to broker
Henry Martyn Messinger. New York.
February 10, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International news Photos.
Box 6, Folder 14, Item 3
Reginald Langhorne Brooks, nephew Lady Astor, in his
new Lockheed Air Express at Roosevelt Field, NY. Roosevelt
Field, NY.
February 16, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.
Note:
International News photos.
Box 6, Folder 14, Item 4
Dorothy Hester, 19-year-old stunt flyer of Portland,
OR, at Grand Central Airport, Glendale, CA, before
performing women's world record of five outside loops in
succession. Los Angeles, CA.
February 22, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International Newsreel.
Box 6, Folder 14, Item 5
Dorothy Hester, who set women's world record of five
outside loops in succession, with Tex Rankin, who will
attempt to break men's record for outside loops in
succession, at Grand Central Airport, Glendale, CA.
Glendale, CA.
February 23, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 14, Item 6
Capt. Frank Hawks (left), selected as outstanding
airman of 1930, at Boston Airport with Stanley Boynton,
after his arrival from Washington. Boston, MA.
February 24, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 14, Item 7
Schneider Cup race, Calshot, Great
Britain.
September 13, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
L to R: #7, Supermarine S.6B, reg. no. S1596; #4, Supermarine
S.6A, reg. no. N248; #1, Supermarine S.6B, reg. no.
S1595.
Box 6, Folder 15
News photographs.
1936-1938.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 6, Folder 15, Item 1
Mike Murphy in 2-cylinder Taylor Cub, takes off from
the roof of an automobile, at the opening of the Ninth
Annual All-American Maneuvers. Miami, FL.
December 12, 1936.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6.5 x 8.5 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 15, Item 2
Mike Murphy flying above automobile.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
International News Photos, No. 82611.
Box 6, Folder 15, Item 3
Clarence McArthur, pilot, with students at the
Delgado Trades School, New Orleans, and the airplane they
built at school, which is entered in the Thompson Trophy
Race, to be held at the National Air Races. Cleveland,
OH.
September 1, 1937.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6.5 x 8.5 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 15, Item 4
Govino P. Nair, first Indian to attempt an Atlantic
flight, preparing to leave from Croydon for Marseilles and
Thies, West Africa.
October 28, 1937.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 15, Item 5
Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra prototype (civilian
registry X17382), with logo of Northwest Airlines. A
different Northwest Airlines airplane of this type crashed
on the Christy Ridge Ranch, near Livingston, MT, with 9
persons aboard. Livingston, MT.
January 10, 1938.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 7 x 11 in.
Note:
International News Photos, No. 820703.
Box 6, Folder 15, Item 6
Dick Merrill and actress Toby Wing at the opening of
Billy Rose's show place, Casa Manana, last night. New
York.
January 19, 1938.
General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6.75 x 8.5 in.
Note:
International News Photos.
Box 6, Folder 16
Captions (original and photocopy).
1918-1938.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 9, Folder 11
Panoramic photographs.
1937,
1944.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 9, Folder 11, Item 1
Formal reception of USSR flyers by Los Angeles city
authorities and Chamber of Commerce, Biltmore Hotel, Los
Angeles, California.
July 16, 1937.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 10 x 20 in.
Box 9, Folder 11, Item 2
26th annual convention, The American Legion, Department
of California, Los Angeles.
August 15-17, 1944.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 10 x 20 in.
Subseries 2.2:
People.
1883-1981
(bulk, 1910-1930).
Physical Description:
27 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically.
Scope and Contents note
The earliest photograph depicts the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier
with their airship, the first to use electric navigation; it is dated
October 8, 1883, and is signed by both brothers. Contemporary
photographic prints relating to the Wright brothers include the brothers
posing with the "1904 Flyer" at Huffman Prairie (Simms Station), 1904;
Wilbur Wright, F. S. Lahm, and Hart O. Berg with the Wright airplane at
HunaudiŠres au Mans (Sarthe), France, 1908; and a Wright flyer over an
unidentified body of water. The collection also contains several
contemporary postcards picturing the Wright brothers at Pau, France, and
at Centocelle Field, near Rome, in 1909. The collection includes a large
photograph, signed by the subject, of Charles E. Taylor with a
half-scale model, made in 1937, of his first motor for the Wright
airplane. Photographs of Glenn Curtiss and his work include Curtiss at
the start of his record-breaking flight from Albany to New York, May 29,
1910; Navy Lt. Theodore Gordon Ellyson in a Curtiss seaplane on the
launching platform, Hammondsport, New York, September, 1911; the U.S.
Naval Curtiss Plane, 1912; and a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" converted into a
military air ambulance, circa 1918. A group of photographs given by
author Carl M. Cleveland in May 1980 depicts the career of Clyde E.
Pangborn, from his early cadet days, through his barnstorming years, to
his partnership with Hugh Herndon in the first non-stop flight from
Japan to the United States in October 1931. Another photograph,
inscribed by the subject, depicts barnstormer V. W. "Squeek" Burnett
demonstrating precision inverted flight at the 1940 Miami air races.
Several of the barnstorming images of Pangborn, as well as the image of
Burnett, were published in Paul O'Neil,
Barnstormers & Speed Kings (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life
Books, c1980). Charles A. Lindbergh is represented in two photographs:
one depicts him in his barnstorming days, with Shorty Lynch and a dog
mascot; the other depicts him airborne in the "Spirit of St. Louis" on
his Tour of the 48 States. The collection includes several photographs
of John and Matilde Moisant, including a contemporary print of Matilde
in her flying suit, circa 1912, and a more modern reproduction print of
Matilde with Harriet Quimby, also circa 1912. The collection also
contains formal portraits of Louis Bleriot, Richard Byrd (by G. Maillard
Kesslere, New York), newspaper and radio reporter Floyd Gibbons (1933),
and William L. "Billy" Mitchell (1917). The portraits of Byrd and
Gibbons are inscribed by the subjects to Daniel Carter Beard,
illustrator, reformer, naturalist, and co-founder of the Boy Scouts of
America; the portrait of Mitchell is a 1956 reproduction of the original
in the Smithsonian Institution. The collection also includes an album of
46 photographs presented by the
Milwaukee
Sentinel
to World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor
recipient Major Richard I. Bong and his wife in 1945, shortly before the
major's death; a signed postcard depicting the Swiss parachutist
Romanesdi; and a postcard of two unidentified actors in a mock-up of a
Farman Voisin biplane, circa 1910.
Box 6, Folder 17
Larry Bell.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 6.5 x 4.5 in. [on mount, 7.5 x 4.5
in.].
Note:
Enlarged detail from unidentified photograph.
Box 6, Folder 18
Louis Bleriot.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 6.75 x 4.75 in [on album page, 9.75 x 6.75
in.].
Custodial History note
Typed annotation on back of album page: "Gift of Ward Seeley".
Book Collection: Aviation TL540 .B641A
Photograph album presented to Major and Mrs. Richard I. Bong
by the Milwaukee Sentinel.
1945.
General Physical Description note: 46
photographs : 8 x 10 in. and 10 x 8 in.
Box 9, Folder 1
V. W. "Squeek" Burnett demonstrating precision inverted
flight at the 1940 Miami air races.
1940.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 10.5 x 13.25 in.
Note:
Inscribed "Hello Pete; This is one way of looking up at the
grandstands. It was a great temptation, and I couldn't resist it.
'Squeek' Burnett".
Box 9, Folder 2
Richard Byrd.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 12.25 x 8.5 in. [on mount, 13.5 x 11.5 in.].
Note:
Photographer G. Maillard Kesslere, New York. Inscribed: "To Dan Beard
with high admiration and very ... R. E. Byrd".
Box 6, Folder 19
H. P. Christofferson taking off in pontoon
biplane.
1912.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.75 x 5.5 in. + business card of H. P. Christofferson,
Mechanic, San Francisco.
Note:
Signed across front: "H. P. Christofferson 1912".
Box 6, Folder 20
Glenn Curtiss.
circa
1910-1918.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 6, Folder 20, Item 1
"Glenn Curtiss ready to start on his record breaking
flight".
[? Albany to New York, May 29,
1910].
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Box 6, Folder 20, Item 2
Navy Lt. Theodore Gordon "Spuds" Ellyson in Curtiss
seaplane on launching platform, Hammondsport, New
York.
September 1911.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 6.25 x 8.5 in.
Custodial History note
Inscribed on back: "Presented to Institute of Aeronautical
History by E. H. Sterne".
Box 6, Folder 20, Item 3
"U.S. Naval Curtiss Plane, Annapolis 1912".
1912.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 4.75 x 6.75 in.
Note:
Caption on back, in pencil.
Box 6, Folder 20, Item 4
Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" converted into military air
ambulance.
Circa 1918.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5.25 x 8 in.
Box 6, Folder 20, Item 5
Biplanes flying in formation over mast of
ship.
Circa 1918.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 6 x 8 in.
Note:
Planes not identified, but photograph found with others relating
to Glenn Curtiss.
Box 6, Folder 21
Earl Daugherty, pilot, with wing walkers "Ace" Bragunier and
Wesley May, above Long Beach, CA.
1924.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : sepia ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Original:
American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Note:
Aviation Collectors Series A-15.
Box 8, Folder 1
Cecil B. DeMille in flying suit standing at the nose of a
Curtiss JN-4C "Canuck".
Circa 1919.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 8 x 10 in. [on mount, 12.25 x 12.25
in].
Original:
Photograph B. 747, American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop
University.
Box 6, Folder 22, Box 8, Folder 2
Amelia Earhart.
1937.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 8, Folder 2
Amelia Earhart perched atop her custom Lockheed 10E
Electra.
1937.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 8 x 10 in. [on mount, 12.25 x 12.25
in.].
Original:
Photograph B. 2800, American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop
University.
Box 6, Folder 22
Amelia Earhart in front of her Lockheed 10E
Electra.
1937.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Note:
Aviation Collectors Series A-28.
Original:
American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 9, Folder 3
Floyd Gibbons.
1933.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 14 x 11 in.
Note:
Inscribed: "To Dan Beard, the Great American, with the respect, love
and admiration of all American youth And Floyd Gibbons. Chicago,
June 5/33. Century of progress".
Box 8, Folder 3
Harry Houdini on the wing of a biplane, in a scene from the
motion picture
The Grim
Game
.
1919.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 8 x 10 in. [on mount, 12.25 x 12.25
in.].
Original:
Photograph B. 6020, American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop
University.
Box 8, Folder 4
Gladys Ingle practices archery on top of Curtiss JN4 "Jenny",
Clover Field, Santa Monica.
October 22, no year [circa 1922].
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 8 x 10 in. [on mount, 12 x 12
in.].
Original:
Photograph B. 657, American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop
University.
Box 6, Folder 23
Dorothy Eula Keel.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 7 x 5 in.
Box 6, Folder 24, Box 8, Folder 5
Charles A. Lindbergh.
Circa
1920-1975.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 6, Folder 24, Item 1
Lindbergh during his barnstorming days.
Circa 1920.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
L to R: unknown (possibly passenger), Lindbergh, Shorty Lynch,
dog mascot.
Box 6, Folder 24, Item 2
Lindbergh flying the "Spirit of St. Louis" on his "Tour
of the 48 States".
1927.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5.5 x 7 in.
Note:
Taken from the official escort plane piloted by Don Keyhoe.
Box 8, Folder 5
Charles Lindbergh and Will Rogers in the cabin of a Ford
Trimotor.
September 1927.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 8 x 10 in. [on mount, 12.25 x 12.25
in.].
Original:
Photograph B. 681, American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop
University.
Box 6, Folder 24, Item 3
Grave of Charles A. Lindbergh in the yard of Palepala
Hoomanu Congregational Church, near Hana, Maui,
Hawaii.
January 10, 1975.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : color ; 5 x 7 in.
Note:
Photograph taken by David Kuhner, Librarian, Sprague Library,
Harvey Mudd College.
Box 9, Folder 4
William L. "Billy" Mitchell as a major in the U.S. Army
Air-Service.
April 1917
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 10 x 8 in. ; inscribed: "To Walter E.
Lees in whose airplane I made my 1st 'solo' flight. Wm. Mitchell,
Brig. Gen. Air Ser[vice]". 1 reproduction photograph of printed note
by Walter E. Lees. 1 envelope. 1 letter of receipt from the
secretary of Ruth Mitchell, Claremont Colleges Library, to Alfred V.
Verville, June 18, 1956.
Original:
Smithsonian Institution.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Received from Alfred V. Verville, June 18, 1956.
Box 6, Folder 25
John and Matilde Moisant.
Circa
1910-1912.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
These materials may originally have belonged to the Elizabeth
Lippincott McQueen Papers, Honnold/Mudd Library.
Box 6, Folder 25, Item 1
John Moisant in Bleriot monoplane at Folkestone,
England.
August-September 1910.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 7.75 x 10 in.
Box 6, Folder 25, Item 2
Matilde Moisant in her flying suit.
Circa 1912.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 3.5 in.
Note:
Found in Clément Ader,
La première étape
de l'aviation militare en France
(Paris: J. Bosc,
1907), at pp. 48-49.
Box 6, Folder 25, Item 3
Harriet Quimby and Matilde Moisant in their flying
suits.
Circa 1912.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 6 x 3.75 in.
Box 6, Folder 25, Item 4
Hangars at the Moisant flying school, Hempstead,
NY.
Circa
1910-1912.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 3.5 x 4.5 in.
Box 6, Folder 26
Clyde E. Pangborn, Hugh Herndon, and Wesley May.
Circa 1917-1931,
1980-1981
(bulk, 1917-1931).
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Carl M. Cleveland, May 1980.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 5
Clyde E. Pangborn in his early cadet days.
Circa
1917-1918.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 10 x 8 in.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 6
Clyde E. Pangborn in his early cadet days.
Circa
1917-1918.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 3
Clyde E. Pangborn, in specially equipped Lozier
automobile, prepares to attempt to transfer to ladder dangling
from Curtiss Jenny piloted by Ralph Reed. Coronado Beach, San
Diego, CA.
1920.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
Published in Paul O'Neil,
Barnstormers
& Speed Kings
(Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books,
c1980), p. 8.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 4
Clyde E. Pangborn, in specially equipped Lozier
automobile, reaches for ladder dangling from Curtiss Jenny
piloted by Ralph Reed. Coronado Beach, San Diego,
CA.
1920.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
Published in Paul O'Neil,
Barnstormers
& Speed Kings
(Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books,
c1980), p. 9.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 7
Bert Acosta wishes Hugh Herndon, Jr., (left) and Clyde E.
Pangborn, "Happy Landings", before their departure from
Roosevelt Field in their wasp powered Bellanco monoplane on the
round-the-world flight in which they seek to lower the record
now held by the Graf Zeppelin. Roosevelt Field, Long Island,
NY.
July 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 8
Clyde E. Pangborn (L) with Hugh Herndon (R) holding the
sextant he proposes to use during their world flight. Roosevelt
Field, Long Island, NY.
July 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 10 x 8 in.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 1
Hugh Herndon, Jr., and Clyde E. Pangborn just after
arriving in Wenatchee, WA, at end of the first non-stop flight
from Japan to the United States.
October 15, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 10 x 8 in.
Note:
Wenatchee, WA: Summer Studio, (c)1931. Photograph No. 5913.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 2
Pangborn-Herndon Bellanca monoplane "Miss Veedol" after
making belly-up landing at Wenatchee, WA.
October 15, 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 8 x 10 in. Embossed "Lester A. Smith,Wenatchee" in
lower left corner.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 9
Wingwalker Wesley May atop a wing, showing how one of his
stunts was done.
Circa 1920.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 10 x 8 in.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 10-13
Four tickets used by Clyde E. Pangborn in his early
barnstorming days.
Circa 1920.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 14
Explanatory notes by Carl M. Cleveland.
May 1980.
Box 6, Folder 26, Item 15-16
US Airmail 28¢ postcards commemorating the 50th
anniversary of the first non-stop trans-Pacific flight by
Pangborn and Herndon, 1931. First Day of Issue cancellation,
Wenatchee, WA.
January 2, 1981.
General Physical Description note: 2
postcards : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Box 6, Folder 27
"Souvenir du Parachutiste Romanesdi".
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 5.5 x 3.5 in. Inscribed by Romanesdi.
Box 6, Folder 28
Charles E. Taylor with half-scale model (made in Greenfield
Village, 1937) of his first motor for the Wright
airplane.
Circa 1937.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Box 6, Folder 29
Albert and Gaston Tissandier with their airship, the first to
use electric navigation (powered by a Siemens engine).
October 8. 1883.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 4 x 5.5 in. [on mount, 8 x 10 in.]. Signed by both
Albert and Gaston Tissandier.
Box 8, Folder 6
Capt. Roscoe Turner assists actress Bebe Daniels to board a
Lockheed Vega for the first flight of Las Vegas
Airlines.
August 5, 1929.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 8 x 10 in. [on mount, 12 x 11.75
in.].
Original:
Photograph B. 1006, American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop
University.
Box 6, Folder 30
Chief Whitefeather hanging by his hair.
1923.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 8 x 10 in.
Box 6, Folder 31
Orville and Wilbur Wright.
1903-1909.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 1
Wright Aeroplane. First flight.
December 17, 1903.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Science Museum, London. Postcard No. 67.
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 2
Original Wright aeroplane, flown by the Wright brothers
on December 17, 1903.
1903.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Science Museum, London. Postcard No. 108.
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 3
Wright aeroplane.
1903.
General Physical Description note: 1
cigarette card : 1 x 2.5 in.
Note:
Lambert & Butler, A Historiation of Aviation, No. 9 of
23.
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 4
Orville and Wilbur Wright posing with the "1904 Flyer",
Huffman Prairie (Simms Station).
1904.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 4.75 x 6.5 in.
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 5
The Wright airplane at Hunaudières au Mans (Sarthe),
France
1908.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Note:
L to R: Wilbur Wright, F. S. Lahm, Hart O. Berg.
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 6
Model of Wright biplane flown at Le Mans,
France.
1908.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Science Museum, London. Postcard No. 109.
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 7
Model of Wright biplane flown at Le Mans,
France.
1908.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Printed for H. M. Stationery Office.
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 8
Orville and Wilbur Wright examine their airplane, Pau,
France.
January-March 1909.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Postcard numbered "2".
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 9
Wright airplane preparing for takeoff, Centocelle Field,
near Rome.
March 28-April 27, 1909.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Note: Postcard numbered "4".
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 10
Wilbur Wright in flight, Centocelle Field, near
Rome.
March 28-April 27, 1909.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Note: Postcard numbered "6".
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 11
Wilbur Wright in flight, Centocelle Field, near
Rome.
March 28-April 27, 1909.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Note: Postcard numbered "10".
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 12
Wright flyer over unidentified river [possibly Orville
Wright over Hudson River, New York City, September-October
1909].
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Box 6, Folder 31, Item 13
Wright flyer hanging in Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 4 x 7 in.
Box 6, Folder 32, Box 8, Folder 7
Unidentified photographs.
Circa 1910-circa
1920.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 6, Folder 32, Item 1
2 men flank 1 woman in viewing stand at air
meet.
Circa 1910.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [enlarged reproduction] : 4 x 5 in. On back: "Dr. C.
The enlargement is very good. Will deliver it to Janzen. Evan F.
Ford."
Box 6, Folder 32, Item 2
2 actors in mock-up of Farman Voisin biplane.
Circa 1910.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Box 8, Folder 7
Wingwalker hanging by his teeth from a ladder suspended
from a biplane.
Circa 1920.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 8 x 10 in. [on mount, 12 x 12.25
in.].
Original:
Photograph B. 6578, American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop
University.
Subseries 2.3:
Air Meets, Air Shows, and Historic Flights.
1910-1959.
Physical Description:
9 folders + 1 box affected by MOLD.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically by date of event.
Scope and Contents note
The Los Angeles Aviation Meet at Dominguez Hills in January 1910 is
represented by two photographs, one a composite of airplanes over the
stadium, the other of French aviator Louis Paulhan over the stadium. The
collection also contains several photographic postcards of the San
Francisco Air Meet, January 1911, the gift of B. W. Cohoon, of Pomona,
CA; these postcards depict Philip Parmalee in his Wright Standard,
Hubert Latham and his "Antoinette", and a Farman biplane. Two
photographic postcards depict the Fokker C-2 "America", in which Richard
Byrd, Bert Acosta, Bernt Balchen, and George Noville flew from New York
to France in 1929, in the water at Ver-sur-Mer, at the end of the
flight. The collection includes a large-scale reproduction of a
photograph purportedly depicting a German World War I flyer falling from
his burning airplane, one of a series of photographs first exhibited in
1931 by a "Mrs. Cockburn-Lange" as the work of an unidentified RAF
officer; these images were exposed as forgeries in Edwards Park, "The
greatest aerial warfare photos go down in flames,"
Smithsonian, 15, no. 10 (January 1985),
102-110. The Society of British Aerospace Companies' airshow at Radlett,
Hertfordshire, in 1946-the predecessor to the Farnborough Air Show-is
represented by 38 photographs; the quality of the images suggests that
they were taken by an amateur. The collection also contains several
photographs from World Congress of Flight, Las Vegas, NV, April 1959,
including an aerial view of Nellis Air Force Base, and images of a 1910
Bleriot monoplane, a World War I Sopwith F1 Camel, and a 1918 German
Pfalz D12.
Box 6, Folder 33
Los Angeles [Dominguez Hills] Aviation Meet.
January 10-20, 1910.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 6, Folder 33, Item 1
Composite photograph of airplanes over stadium, Dominguez
Hills.
January 10-20, 1910.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Box 6, Folder 33, Item 2-4
French aviator Louis Paulhan over stadium, Dominguez
Hills.
January 10-20, 1910.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in. + letter of transmittal, dated October
22, 1959, and business card of Randal C. Slacke, who attended
the meet with his uncle.
Custodial History note
Gift of Randal C. Slacke, 1959.
Box 45
San Francisco Air Meet.
Physical Description:
1 box.
Material Specific Details note: Affected by MOLD.
Box 45, Item 1
Philip Parmalee in Wright Standard, San Francisco
Aviation Meet.
Jan. [worn] 16, 1911.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 5.5 x 3.5 in. Marked "No. 33".
Material Specific Details note: Affected by MOLD.
Box 45, Item 2
The Hangars and Aeroplanes Ready for Flight.
January 1911.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 5.5 x 3.5 in. Marked "No. 37".
Material Specific Details note: Affected by MOLD.
Box 45, Item 3
Hubert Latham in his flight over San
Francisco.
January 7, 1911.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Material Specific Details note: Affected by MOLD.
Box 45, Item 4
Hubert Latham's Antoinette.
January 1911.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Material Specific Details note: Affected by MOLD.
Box 45, Item 5
Farman biplane.
January 1911.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Material Specific Details note: Affected by MOLD.
Box 9, Item 5
Lump of ice flying over landscape: "Trip number five-Calling
Newark Airport-I'm afraid ice is forming on our wings!"
Circa 1925.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 14 x 10 in. [mounted].
Box 6, Folder 34
Fokker C-2 "America" in water at Ver-sur-Mer, France, at end
of flight from New York, June 29-July 1, 1929, Commander Richard
Byrd, Bert Acosta, Bernt Balchen, and George Noville.
July 1, 1929.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in. + 1 postcard : 3.75 x 5.5 in.
Box 9, Item 6
Cockburn-Lange forgery purportedly recording a German World
War I flyer falling from his burning airplane.
Circa 1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : sepia ; 14 x 10.75 in. [mounted].
Note:
For the Cockburn-Lange forgeries, see Edwards Park, "The greatest
aerial warfare photos go down in flames,"
Smithsonian, 15, no. 10 (January 1985), 102-110.
Box 6, Folder 35-36, Box 7, Folder 1-3
Radlett Air Show.
September 12-13, 1946.
Physical Description:
5 folders.
Box 6, Folder 35, Item 1
Armstrong Whitworth AW.52G (RG325).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Box 6, Folder 35, Item 2-3
Avro Lancastrian II (VH742).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 2
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Box 6, Folder 35, Item 4
Avro Tudor I (G-AGRE).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Box 6, Folder 35, Item 5-6
Avro York "Montrose" (G-AG[OA]).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 2
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Box 6, Folder 35, Item 7
Blackburn Firebrand TF.5 (EK742).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Box 6, Folder 35, Item 8
Cierva W.9 (PX203).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Box 6, Folder 36, Item 1-3
De Havilland 108 (TG306).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 3
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Box 6, Folder 36, Item 4-6
De Havilland Hornet F.1 (PX313).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 3
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Box 6, Folder 36, Item 7-8
De Havilland Mosquito (prototype) (W4050).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 2
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Box 6, Folder 36, Item 9
De Havilland Mosquito PR.34 (RG231).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Note:
Identification not certain.
Box 7, Folder 1, Item 1
De Havilland Sea Hornet F.XX (TT186).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 1, Item 2-4
De Havilland Sea Vampire (TG328).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 3
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 1, Item 5
Fairey Firefly Trainer (Class B registration)
(F1).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 1, Item 6-7
Gloster Meteor F.4 (EE525).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 2
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 1, Item 8-9
Handley Page Hastings C.1 (TE580).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 2
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Note:
Identification not certain.
Box 7, Folder 2, Item 1
Hawker Fury F.1 (LA610).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 2, Item 2
Hawker Sea Fury F.X (TF895).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 2, Item 3
Mockup showing dimensions of hold of Saunders-Roe SR.45
Civil Flying Boat.
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 7 x 5 in.
Box 7, Folder 2, Item 4-5
Short Sturgeon PR.1 (RK787).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 2
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 2, Item 6-8
Supermarine E10/44 (TS409).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 3
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 3, Item 1-2
Supermarine Seafire F.47 (PS944).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 2
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 3, Item 3
Supermarine Spitfire Trainer (Class B Registration)
(N32).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 3, Item 4-5
Vickers Warwick C.III (HG248).
September 12-13, 1946.
General Physical Description note: 2
photographs : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 4
World Congress of Flight, Las Vegas, Nevada.
April 12-19, 1959.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 7, Folder 4, Item 1
World Congress of Flight, Nellis Air Force Base, Las
Vegas, Nev., 15 April 1959. Photo taken by USAF RF-101, 500 mph,
100 ft alt.
April 15, 1959.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 9 x 10 in.
Box 7, Folder 4, Item 2-4
1910 Bleriot monoplane.
April 12-19, 1959.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph (3 copies) : 8 x 10 in.
Box 7, Folder 4, Item 5-7
1918 German Pfalz D12.
April 12-19, 1959.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph (3 copies) : 8 x 10 in.
Box 7, Folder 4, Item 8-10
Frank Talman, president of Talman Aviation Co., Palos
Verdes, California, standing with his W.W. I Sopwith F1
Camel.
April 12-19, 1959.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph (3 copies) : 8 x 10 in.
Box 7, Folder 4, Item 11-12
World War I Sopwith F1 Camel in flight.
April 12-19, 1959.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph (2 copies) : 8 x 10 in.
Subseries 2.4:
Individual Aircraft.
Circa 1845-1956.
Physical Description:
41 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by name of manufacturer.
Scope and Contents note
Approximately two thirds of the materials in this subseries are
photographs of aircraft, primarily of U.S., French, and German
manufacture, 1899-1956; the remaining third consists of postcards
published circa 1930 of historic aircraft and models in the Science
Museum, London. The earliest photographs, dated October 1899, are of the
engine built by Stephen M. Balzer for Samuel P. Langley's unsuccessful
airplane. The bulk of the photographs relate to aircraft of U.S.
manufacture, in particular those built by Consolidated Aircraft (from
1943, Consolidated Vultee, popularly known as Convair), San Diego, CA,
between 1923 and 1956. The photographs include pages from a comb-bound
publication picturing aircraft built by the company between 1923 and
1945; two large-scale photographs of the PBY-5 flying off the Southern
California coast, signed by Otto Menge, official photographer of the
company; a large-scale photograph of the XP-81 mixed-engine fighter
flying over the Southern California desert; photographs of the XC-99
transport under construction, circa 1947; photographs of the first
official view of the XB-46, January 1947; and five photographs of the
XF2Y Sea Dart jet fighter, 1956. Other aircraft of U.S. manufacture
include the Solar Aircraft Co. Solar MS-1, 1930; the Goodyear rigid
airship USS Akron, 1931, and the airships Columbia and Mayflower; the
Granville Brothers Gee Bee Super Sportster, R1/R2 Longtail, 1933; and a
small number of military aircraft built by Lockheed, circa 1945.
Aircraft of French manufacture include the Breguet 763, 1951; and the
S.N.C.A.S.O. SO-1221 Djinn helicopter, SO-6021 Espadron, and SO-4050
Vautour and SO-9000 Trident jet fighters. Aircraft of German manufacture
include the Dornier Do X flying boat, 1930 (a series of postcards,
several signed by Capt. Friedrich Christiansen and Harvey Brewton, the
Curtiss representative), and the Zeppelin airship LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin".
Materials relating to the latter include a photograph of a certificate
signed by the passengers on the first voyage of the LZ127 to South
America, May 1930, and a souvenir "Bord-Album,", containing photographs
of the crew for the voyage, the passenger accommodations on board the
airship, and sights of interest along the route. Among the models of
historic aircraft in the Science Museum, London, pictured in the
postcards are Henson and Stringfellow's flying machine, built in
1844-45, from Henson's 1842 design; Stringfellow's 1848 model airplane;
Sir Hiram Maxim's 1894 flying machine; Josée Weiss's 1905 glider;
biplanes, 1908-1921, by Voisin, Farman, Avro, Bristol, De Havilland,
Fairey, Handley Page, and Vickers-Vimy; the British airship R 34; the
"Moth" light airplane; and the Supermarine-Napier Seaplane S.5. Original
aircraft pictured in the postcards include the Vickers-Vimy Rolls-Royce
twin-engine biplane in which Alcock and Brown made the first direct
trans-Atlantic flight in 1919, and the Supermarine Rollys-Royce Seaplane
S.6 that won the Schneider Trophy Contest for Great Britain in September
1929.
Box 7, Folder 5
Aeronautical Syndicate Ltd, Valkyrie I Monoplane (ASL
II).
1910.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 5 x 7 in.
Original:
Hatfield Research Files, Pasadena, California, later American Hall of
Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 7, Folder 6
Avro biplane, type 504 (model).
Circa
1913-1934.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 103.
Box 9, Item 7
Balzer, Stephen M. Motor engine, 4 3/16 inch bore, 5 1/2 inch
stroke, designed and built by Stephen M. Balzer, Andover, New
Jersey, for Prof. S. P. Langley's aeroplane, on behalf of the
Smithsonian Instition, Washington, DC.
Photographs taken Oct. 10th, 1899.
General Physical Description note: 2
photographs, on 12.5 x 9.5 inch mount.
Box 7, Folder 7
Beardmore. Model of H.M. Airship R 34, built by Messrs.
Beardmore during the latter part of WW I, and the 1st
lighter-than-air craft to make a direct trans-Atlantic
flight.
Circa
1919-1921.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 57.
Box 7, Folder 8
Breguet 763.
1951.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7.25 in.
Box 7, Folder 9
Bristol Fighter biplane (model).
Circa
1916-1920.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 105.
Box 7, Folder 10-14, Box 9, Item 8-10
Consolidated Aircraft (from 1943, Consolidated Vultee,
popularly known as Convair), San Diego, California.
1923-1947,
1956.
Physical Description:
8 folders.
Box 7, Folder 10
Aircraft built by Consolidated Aircraft/Consolidated
Vultee.
1923-1945.
General Physical Description note: 11
pages : 8 x 10 in. ; from unidentified comb-bound
publication.
Box 9, Item 8
Consolidated Aircraft PBY-5 (BuNo2289) flying off the
Southern California coast near San Diego.
1940-1943.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 15.75 x 19.75 in.
Note:
Photograph A 380. Signed by Otto Menge.
Box 9, Item 9
Consolidated Aircraft PBY-5 flying off the Southern
California coast near San Diego.
1940-1943.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 15.75 x 19.75 in.
Note:
Photograph A-569. Signed by Otto Menge.
Box 7, Folder 11
Consolidated Vultee [Convair] Model 103
Skycar.
1944.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 7.5 x 10 in.
Note:
Box 9, Item 10
Consolidated Vultee [Convair] XP-81 mixed-engine fighter
(49-1000).
1945-1947.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 15.75 x 19.75 in.
Note:
Photograph A1025.
Box 7, Folder 12
Aircraft built by Consolidated Vultee
(Convair).
1947.
General Physical Description note: 4
pages : 8 x 10 in. ; from unidentified comb-bound
publication.
Contents:
- Convair L-13A (LG-068; 46-068). -- Note: On back:
"Shown Opposite: Stinson Voyager Personal Plane".
- Stinson Voyager 108-2 personal plane (NC9424K). --
Note: On back: "Shown Opposite: Convair XP5Y-1 Navy
Patrol Bomber".
- Convair CV-240 (NX90849). -- Note: On back: "Shown
Opposite: Convair B-36 Air Force Long-Range
Bomber".
- XC-99 transport. - Note: On back: "Shown Opposite:
Convair XB-46 Air Force Jet Bomber".
Box 7, Folder 13
Aircraft built by Consolidated Vultee.
1947.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
General Physical Description note: 5
photographs : 8 x 10 in.
Box 7, Folder 13, Item 1
XC-99 transport under construction.
Circa 1947.
Note:
Photograph No. F37 313.
Box 7, Folder 13, Item 2-3
XB-46 first official view.
January 23, 1947.
Note:
Photograph No. F109-207. 2 copies.
Box 7, Folder 13, Item 4-5
XB-46.
1947.
Note:
Photographs Nos. F109-216 and F109-272.
Box 7, Folder 14
Convair XF2Y Sea Dart jet fighter.
1956.
General Physical Description note: 5
photographs.
Note:
Photographs Nos. N30340, N30341, N30343, N30354, X[7]2Y358.
Box 7, Folder 15
[De Havilland] D.H. 10 biplane (model).
Circa 1918.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 102.
Box 7, Folder 29
[De Havilland D.H. 60] "Moth" light aeroplane
(model).
Circa 1926.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 99. The registration number
"G-EBNT" was issued to a Gloster G.17 Gamecock I (Gloucestershire
Aircraft Co Ltd) on March 17, 1926; the registration was cancelled
on April 27, 1927.
Box 7, Folder 16
Dornier Do X flying boat.
1930.
General Physical Description note: 13
postcards : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Contents:
- 1-3. Being transported to Lake Constance ["wird zu Wasser
gebracht"]. -- Note: 3 copies.
- 4. Resting in the water. -- Note: Signed "Henry
Kiel".
- 5-10. Shortly after takeoff ["kurz nach dem Start"]. --
Note: 6 copies, 2 autographed by Capt. Friedrich
Christiansen, 3 autographed by Harvey Brewton, Curtiss
representative.
- 11-13. Dornier Do X flying boat with airship "Graf
Zeppelin". -- Note: 3 copies, 1 autographed by Capt.
Friedrich Christiansen.
| 1-3. |
Being transported to Lake
Constance ["wird zu Wasser gebracht"]. -- Note: 3
copies.
|
|
| 4. |
Resting in the water. -- Note:
Signed "Henry Kiel".
|
|
| 5-10. |
Shortly after takeoff ["kurz nach
dem Start"]. -- Note: 6 copies, 2 autographed by
Capt. Friedrich Christiansen, 3 autographed by
Harvey Brewton, Curtiss representative.
|
|
| 11-13. |
Dornier Do X flying boat with
airship "Graf Zeppelin". -- Note: 3 copies, 1
autographed by Capt. Friedrich
Christiansen.
|
|
Box 7, Folder 17
Fairey III "F" biplane, Fleet Air Arm type
(model).
Circa
1917-1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 83.
Box 7, Folder 18
Farman biplane (model).
1911.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: H.M. Stationery Office, n.d.
Box 7, Folder 19
Fokker F.VIII commercial aircraft (model).
Circa
1927-1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 101.
Box 7, Folder 20
Folland Midge G-39-1.
1954.
General Physical Description note: 2
photographs : 6.5 x 8.5 + 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Box 7, Folder 21
Goodyear airships.
1931-1933, circa
1965-1970.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 7, Folder 21, Item 1
Goodyear rigid airship USS Akron.
1931-1933.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 8.25 x 10 in.
Note:
Photograph 1108-92331 P.
Box 7, Folder 21, Item 2-4
Goodyear airships Columbia (N2A) and Mayflower
(N4A).
Circa
1965-1970.
General Physical Description note: 2
photographs : 8.25 x 10 in. + 1 photograph: 10 x 8.25
in.
Note:
Photographs 3419-66C (#2), 3469-64 (#3), unnumbered (#4).
Box 7, Folder 22
Granville Brothers, Gee Bee Super Sportster, R1/R2
Longtail.
1933.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 23
Handley Page 4-engined biplane (model).
1918.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 66.
Box 7, Folder 24
W. S. Henson and John Stringfellow's flying machine, built in
1844-45, from a designed patented by Henson in 1842.
Circa 1845.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: H.M. Stationery Office, n.d.
Box 7, Folder 25
Junkers Monoplane "Bremen", which accomplished the first
direct heavier-than-air craft flight across the Atlantic from East
to West, 12/13 April 1928 (model).
Circa 1928.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 100.
Box 7, Folder 26
Lilienthal Glider.
1895.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 82.
Box 7, Folder 27
Lockheed Aircraft Corp, Burbank, California.
Circa 1945.
General Physical Description note: 6
photographs : 8 x 10 in.
Note:
Portfolio Series No. 3.
Contents:
- U.S. Army Air Forces P-38 fighter / F-5 camera
plane.
- U.S. Army Air Forces P-38 Fighter.
- U.S. Army Air Forces C-60 / U.S. Navy and Coast Guard
R-50.
- U.S. Army Air Forces B-34/U.S. Navy PV-1.
- U.S. Army Air Forces C-69.
- Lockheed Constellation.
Box 7, Folder 28
Sir Hiram Maxim flying machine, built in 1894 (contemporary
model).
Circa 1894.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: H.M. Stationery Office, n.d.
Box 7, Folder 30-33
S.N.C.A.S.O. [Société Nationale de Constructions
Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest].
Circa
1950-1958.
Physical Description:
4 folders.
Box 7, Folder 30
S.N.C.A.S.O. SO-1221 Djinn helicopter.
Circa 1953.
General Physical Description note: 3
Photographs : 8.25 x 10.75 in.
Box 7, Folder 31
S.N.C.A.S.O. SO Espadon [6021].
Circa 1950.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 4.5 x 7 in.
Box 7, Folder 32
S.N.C.A.S.O. SO-4050 Vautour jet fighter.
Circa
1952-1958.
General Physical Description note: 3
photographs : 8.25 x 10.75 in.
Box 7, Folder 33
S.N.C.A.S.O. SO-9000 Trident jet fighter.
Circa
1953-1957.
General Physical Description note: 3
photographs : 8.25 x 10.75 in.
Box 7, Folder 34
Solar Aircraft Co. Solar MS-1 (X258V) tail
section.
1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 3.5 x 4.5 in.
Note:
Box 7, Folder 35
John Stringfellow model aeroplane, 1848
(replica).
1848.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
General note
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 107.
Box 7, Folder 36
Supermarine aircraft.
Circa 1927-1929
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 7, Folder 36, Item 1
Supermarine-Napier Seaplane S.5 (model).
Circa 1927.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
General note
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 104.
Box 7, Folder 36, Item 2
Supermarine Rolls-Royce Seaplane S.6, that won the
Schneider Trophy Contest for Great Britain on September 7,
1929.
Circa 1929.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 114.
Box 7, Folder 37
Vickers-Vimy aircraft.
Circa
1919-1921.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 7, Folder 37, Item 1
Vickers-Vimy Rolls-Royce twin-engine biplane on which
Alcock and Brown made the 1st direct trans-Atlantic flight in
1919.
Circa 1919.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 58.
Box 7, Folder 37, Item 2
Vickers-Vimy twin-engine commercial biplane "City of
London", 1921-1923 (model).
Circa
1921-1923.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 106.
Box 7, Folder 38
Voisin biplane, 1908 (model).
Circa 1908.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: H.M. Stationery Office, n.d.
Box 7, Folder 39
Josée Weiss glider shown in Paris in 1905
(model).
Circa 1905.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
London: H.M. Stationery Office, n.d.
Box 7, Folder 40-41
Zeppelin airships.
Circa 1915-1918,
1928-1937
(bulk, 1928-1937).
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 7, Folder 40, Item 1
"Puzzle-Find How London is Guarded at Night".
Circa
1915-1918.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Zeppelin Series No. 3.
Box 7, Folder 40, Item 2
LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin" in a field, with an open-cockpit
monoplane flying above.
Circa
1928-1937.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Custodial History note
Originally in Honnold Library Special Collections; transferred to
Carruthers Collection, September 1998.
Box 7, Folder 40, Item 3
Photograph of certificate, signed by the passengers, of
the first voyage of LZ127, "Graf Zeppelin" to South
America.
May 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard ; 5.5 x 3.5 in. Inscribed "To John Carruthers, from San
Sebastian, Bröschel".
Box 7, Folder 40, Item 4
LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin" over Hammerfest, Norway, on the way
to Spitzbergen.
July 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] : 10 x 8 in.
Box 7, Folder 40, Item 5
Zeppelin airship over Geneva.
Circa 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Note:
Sent by John Cor... [indecipherable] to John Carruthers,
postmarked Friedrichshafen 14 September 1930.
Box 7, Folder 40, Item 6
First arrival of LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin" at
Geneva-Coinirin.
September 16, 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Box 7, Folder 40, Item 7-8
Dining room of LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin".
Circa
1928-1937.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph [reproduction] ; 8 x 10 in. 2 copies.
Box 7, Folder 40, Item 9
LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin" over Friedrichhafen, photographed
from an airplane.
Circa
1928-1937.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Box 7, Folder 40, Item 10
Kurgarten Hotel, Friedrichshafen.
Circa
1928-1937.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Box 7, Folder 41
Airship LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin". Bord-Album, Serie
10.
Circa
1928-1937.
General Physical Description note: 19
photographs : 6.5 x 4.5 and 4.5 x 6.5 in.
General note
Nos. 1-36; missing nos. 1, 7, 9, 14-16, 18-19, 23-24, 28-34.
Signed "John Carruthers" on cover.
Subseries 2.5:
Airlines.
Circa 1930-1960.
Physical Description:
5 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically.
Scope and Contents note
The photographs include the American Airlines Convair flagship "Boston";
an American overseas Airlines Boeing 377 Stratocruiser at Shannon
Airport, Ireland, before 1950 (when the airline was acquired by Pan
American Airways; the airplane, renamed "Clipper of the Skies", was lost
over the Pacific en-route from San Francisco to Honolulu on November 9,
1957); the introduction of the Convair 880 to the Delta Airlines fleet
in 1960; and a Flying Tiger Line crew unloading fresh cut flowers. The
collection also includes a packet of eight photographs produced by
Deruluft (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrgesellschaft), which from 1922 to
1937 ran an air service between Berlin and Moscow, via Königsberg, East
Prussia (now Kaliningrad), and the Baltic states; the airline utilized
Dornier-Merkur aircraft between Berlin and Königsberg, and Junkers G-24
aircraft between Königsberg and Moscow.
Box 7, Folder 42
American Airlines, Convair flagship "Boston".
Circa 1950.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : color ; 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Box 7, Folder 43
American Overseas Airlines, Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
passenger plane (N90944), at Shannon Airport, co. Clare,
Ireland.
Before 1950.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : color ; 4 x 6 in.
Note:
American Overseas Airlines was acquired by Pan American Airways and
the airplane (re)named clipper "Romance of the Skies" in 1950; it
was lost over the Pacific en-route from San Francisco to Honolulu on
November 9, 1957.
Box 7, Folder 44
Delta Airlines, Convair 880.
1960.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 7, Folder 44, Item 1
Delta Convair 880 in flight.
1960.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph ; 8 x 10 in. + press release of January 28,
1960.
Note:
Note: Photograph No. 56098.
Box 7, Folder 44, Item 2
Delta Convair 880 taking off.
1960.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Box 7, Folder 44, Item 3
Press release.
Feb. 10 [1960].
Box 7, Folder 45
Deruluft (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrs A.G.).
Circa
1929-1936.
General Physical Description note: 8
postcards : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Contents:
- Nacht-Flugzeug Berlin-Königsberg Junkers G 24.
- Stecken-Flugzeug Königsberg-Moskau Dornier-Merkur.
- Berlin, Potsdamer Platz.
- Danzig, Bahnhof.
- Blick auf Kaunas mit Njemenbrücke.
- Moskau, Blick auf den Kreml.
- Moskau, Auswärtiges Amt.
- Tallinn, Hafen.
Box 7, Folder 46
Flying Tiger Line crew unloading fresh cut
flowers.
Circa 1950.
General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 8 x 10 in.
Subseries 2.6:
Airports.
Circa 1930.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by locality.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries comprises photographs of the Zentralflughafen at
Berlin-Tempelhof and Le Bourget airport, Paris, both circa 1930.
Box 8, Folder 1
Berlin, Zentralflughafen.
Circa 1930.
General Physical Description note: 4
postcards : 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Box 8, Folder 2
Paris, Le Bourget airport.
Circa 1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard ; 3.5 x 5.5 in. 3 copies.
Series 3:
Printed Matter.
1910-2002
(bulk, 1930-1980).
Physical Description:
2.5 boxes.
Arrangement note
Organized into 11 subseries:
- Subseries 3.1: Bibliographies, 1979
- Subseries 3.2: Aviation History, 1931-1932, 1983
- Subseries 3.3: People, circa 1910-1980
- Subseries 3.4: Air Meets, Air Shows, and Historic Flights,
1910-1958
- Subseries 3.5: Museums and Exhibitions, n.d.
- Subseries 3.6: Educational Institutions, circa 1945-1949
- Subseries 3.7: Societies and Associations, 1911-1990
- Subseries 3.8: Conferences, 1948-1951
- Subseries 3.9: Airports, circa 1930-2002
- Subseries 3.10: Geographic, circa 1956-1996
Scope and Contents note
This series comprises printed materials, including bibliographies, journal
articles, newspaper clippings, event programs, conference agenda and
reports, manuscripts, telegrams, letters, press kits, and guides, relating
to aviation. The bulk of the series consists of materials relating to
individual people, primarily pioneer aviators, including, in particular,
Amelia Earhart and Charles A. Lindbergh, as well as Juan de la Cierva, Igor
Sikorsky, and Charles E. Taylor. The series also includes original materials
on historic air meets, air shows, and flights, including the 1910 Los
Angeles Aviation Meet, and, in particular, the 1931 transpacific flight by
Cecil Allen and Donald Moyle. Materials on museums and exhibitions include
the 1932 illustrated handbook of the National Aircraft Collection, the
predecessor of the National Air and Space Museum, and the brochure for the
official opening of the American Hall of Aviation History at Northrop
University in 1976. Other materials include the program from the
Aeronautical Society's first annual banquet in 1911; a 1919 application form
for the Raymond Orteig Prize, administered by the Aero Club of America;
papers relating to the Bakersfield, Glendale, Los Angeles, San Diego, and
Upland (California) airports; and the Portal of the Folded Wings, Valhalla
Memorial Park, Burbank.
Box 10, Folder 1
Subseries 3.1:
Bibliographies.
1979.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries consists of two works, both compiled in 1979, relating to
women in aviation.
Box 10, Folder 1, Item 1
Camilla Hutson.
Bibliography of Women
in Aeronautics
. Compiled from the Readers' Guide to
Periodical Literature, 1900 through 1978.
1979.
Box 10, Folder 1, Item 2
Sandie Clary.
Women in Aviation
Library. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Collection of the San
Diego NinetyNines
.
November 2, 1979.
Box 10, Folder 2
Subseries 3.2:
Aviation History.
1931-1932,
1983.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries consists of materials relating primarily to British
military aviation prior to 1931, and to British commercial and civil
aviation in the period immediately following World War I.
Box 10, Folder 2, Item 1
H. A. Jones. A Hundred Years of Service Aviation.
Journal of the Royal United Service
Institution
, p. 311-323.
1931.
Box 10, Folder 2, Item 2
The Master of Sempill. Commercial and civil aviation;
post-war progress and possibilities of the future.
United Empire, p. 195-205.
1932.
Box 10, Folder 2, Item 3
Cipalia, Rita. Clean design of the flying wing captures
futuristic imaginations.
Smithsonian
Institution Research Reports
, p. 3.
Autumn 1983.
Box 10, Folder 3-39, Box 12, Folder 1-8
Subseries 3.3:
People.
Circa 1910-1980.
Physical Description:
45 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries consists of materials relating to individual people. The
majority of the individuals are pioneer aviators, and the materials
consist largely of journal articles and newspaper clippings, including
obituaries, dating from 1916 to 2000, with the bulk dating from 1950 to
1980. The files relating to Amelia Earhart and Charles A. Lindbergh are
particularly extensive. Almost all the Earhart material is the gift of
Earhart historian Shirley Dobson Gilroy. Pictorial materials for other
individuals include a 1929 Associated Press photograph of Pancho Barnes
and her pet dog prior to the Women's Air Derby, and a 1937 photograph of
Midge Sherwood. Biographical materials include the reminiscences of
Frank Samuel Lahm, 1846-1931, and a 1953 typescript copy of a 1948
account by Charles E. Taylor, "My Story of the Wright Brothers"; this
typescript was at one time in the looseleaf binder of transcripts of
accounts of early aviation history in the Walter R. Brookins Aviation
Collection, cataloged as Aviation Folio TL508.B791. Other materials
include a notarized 1957 verification of a 1914
Beloit Daily News account of aerial performances by Lincoln
Beachey and Barney Oldfield; letters dated 1957 from Jesse Cyril
Brabazon to Dr. Carruthers, and the first ten pages of a typescript of
Brabazon's "1911-1916. Aviation in its Infancy or The Early Days of
Pioneer Aviation"; a small Syd Chaplin Aircraft Corp. handbill for the
Curtiss "Oriole", with a pencil annotation that it was dropped from an
airplane on "9/8/[19]19"; a 1925 article by, and a 1936 memorial
biography of, autogiro pioneer Juan de la Cierva; a 1953 speech by
George Noville at the Valley Hunt Club, celebrating the 25th anniversary
of the Institute of Aeronautical History; an illustrated brochure for an
exhibition on the life and work of Igor Sikorsky; brochures, 1983 and
1987, of the International Forest of Friendship, Atchison, Kansas, with
which pioneer aviator Fay Gillis Wells was associated in her later
years; and a 1916 brochure for the Wright Flying School.
Box 12, Folder 1
Andree, Salomon August.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 3
Angel, Jimmie.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 4
Barnes, Florence Lowe ("Pancho").
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 5
Beachey, Lincoln.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 6
Beghin, Jean-Luc.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 7
Brabazon, Jesse Cyril.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 8
Brancker, Sefton.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 9
Caplan, Natalie ("Nikki").
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 10
Chaplin, Syd.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 11
Clarke, Frank.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 12
Cochran, Jacqueline.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 13
Critchell, Iris.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 12, Folder 2
Curtiss, Glenn H.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 14
De la Cierva, Juan.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 15
Doolittle, James H.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 16
Douglas, Donald Wills.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 12, Folder 3
Earhart, Amelia.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 17
Emeyriat, Carolyn, and Sylvia Rickett.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 18
Evitt, Ardeth.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 12, Folder 4
Granger, Clema M.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 19
Hackney, Lyle Raymond.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 12, Folder 5
Hatfield, David Daniel.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 20
Hawks, Charles.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 12, Folder 6
Hawks, Frank M.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 21
Hoxsey, Arch.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 22
Hubbell, Charles H.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 23
Lahm, Frank Samuel.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 24
Langley, Samuel.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 25
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 26
Marvingt, Marie.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 27
Noville, George.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 28
Ovington, Earle.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 12, Folder 7
Quimby, Harriet.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 29
Renstrom, Arthur G.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 30
Rodgers, Calbraith Perry.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 31
Sherwood, Midge.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 32
Sikorsky, Igor.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 33
Smith, Charles Kingsford.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 34
Smith, Elinor.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 35
Snook, Neta.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 12, Folder 8
Taylor, Charles E.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 36
Turner, Roscoe.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 37
Wells, Fay Gillis.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 38
Wild, Horace B.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 10, Folder 39
Wright, Orville and Wilbur.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 1-8, Box 12, Folder 9-11
Subseries 3.4:
Air Meets, Air Shows, and Historic Flights.
1910-1958.
Physical Description:
11 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries comprises materials relating to air meets, air shows, and
historic flights between 1910 and 1958. Materials for the Los Angeles
Aviation Meet, held at Dominguez Hills in January 1910, include printed
official programs, an entry ticket stub, and a sheet of paper signed by
many of the pioneer aviators in attendance. The materials also include
extensive original records of the 1931 transpacific flight by Cecil
Allen and Donald Moyle, including portions of the flight log, telegrams,
and the manuscript of Allen's account of the flight. A transcript of
Allen's manuscript was prepared by David Kuhner, librarian at Sprague
Library, for use by Carl M. Cleveland in his planned book on Pacific
flights. The materials also include an illustrated compte rendu of the
1921 Salon de l'aéronautique, two United States Air Force press kits,
including photographs, prepared for the 22nd Salon international de
l'aéronautique in 1957, and a press kit for the 19th Society of British
Aircraft Constructors Flying Display and Exhibition at Farnborough in
1958.
Box 11, Folder 1
Los Angeles [Dominguez Hills] Aviation Meet.
January 10-20, 1910.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 1, Item 1-4
Official aviation meet Programs.
January 1910.
General Physical Description note: 4
programs : 10 x 6 1/4 in.
Contents:
- Jan. 12, 1910.
- Jan. 14, 1910 (2 copies).
- Jan. 20, 1910.
| 1. |
Jan. 12, 1910. |
| 2-3. |
Jan. 14, 1910 (2
copies).
|
| 4. |
Jan. 20, 1910. |
Box 11, Folder 1, Item 5-7
Entry Ticket Stub, Reserved Seat No. 4513.
January 15, 1910.
Contents:
- 5. Ticket stub.
- 6. Transmittal letter from Lucy Greene to Col. Edmund
P.Stone, Nov. 17, 1958.
- 7. Transmittal letter from Col. Stone to David W.
Davies, Honnold Library, March 27, 1959.
| 5. |
Ticket stub. |
| 6. |
Transmittal letter from Lucy
Greene to Col. Edmund P.Stone, Nov. 17,
1958.
|
| 7. |
Transmittal letter from Col.
Stone to David W. Davies, Honnold Library, March
27, 1959.
|
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Col. Edmund P.Stone to Honnold Library, March 27,
1959.
Custodial History note
Gift from Lucy Greene to Col. Edmund P.Stone, Nov. 17, 1958.
Box 11, Folder 1, Item 8
Sheet of paper with the purported signatures of H.
Latham, Arch Hoxsey, __________, Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright,
Ralph _______, John _______, Glenn H. Curtiss.
January 1910.
General Physical Description note: 1
paper sheet : 8.5 x 11 inches.
Box 11, Folder 1, Item 9
David Colker, "Unknown L.A.: In 1910, those crazy flying
machines came to call."
Los Angeles
Herald
.
March 1, 1984.
General Physical Description note: 1
newspaper clipping,
Box 12, Folder 9
Salon de l'aéronautique 1921, Compte rendu.
1921.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 2-6, Box 13
Cecil Allen & Donald Moyle Trans-Pacific
Flight.
1931.
Physical Description:
5 folders + 1 box.
Box 11, Folder 2
Original Documents.
1931-1932.
Contents:
- 1. Log. 2 sheets.
- 2-13. Telegrams, August 11-October 9, 1931.
- 14. Letter of congratulations, September 6,
1931.
- 15. List of Provisions: Russian Supply Order No. 189,
September 18, 1931.
- 16. MS list of maps and telegrams etc. of Pacific
flight. Mar. 9, 1932.
| 1. |
Log. 2 sheets. |
| 2-13. |
Telegrams, August 11-October 9,
1931.
|
| 14. |
Letter of congratulations,
September 6, 1931.
|
| 15. |
List of Provisions: Russian
Supply Order No. 189, September 18, 1931.
|
| 16. |
MS list of maps and telegrams
etc. of Pacific flight. Mar. 9, 1932.
|
Box 11, Folder 3
Cecil Allen, MS account of flight.
1932.
General Physical Description note: 55
sheets.
Box 11, Folder 4
Transcript of Cecil Allen MS account of flight, by David
Kuhner, with notes by Kuhner.
Circa 1975.
Box 11, Folder 5
Ray C. Huver.
Circa 1932.
Contents:
- Preface, by Ray C. Huver. TS, 16 sheets.
- Flying Home, by Cecil Allen and Donald Moyle, as told
to Ray C. Huver. TS, 2 sheets.
Box 11, Folder 6
Fragile originals removed from Box 11:2-5.
Circa
1931-1932.
Box 13
Photo negatives.
Contents:
- 1. Log, sheet 1.
- 2-4. Telegrams nos. 2, 7, 8.
- 5. List of supplies: Russian Supply Order No.
189.
| 1. |
Log, sheet 1. |
| 2-4. |
Telegrams nos. 2, 7, 8. |
| 5. |
List of supplies: Russian
Supply Order No. 189.
|
Box 12, Folder 10
Congrés international de l'aéronautique.
1953.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 7-8
Twenty second Salon international de
l'aéronautique.
May 24-June 2, 1957.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 11, Folder 7
United States Air Force in Europe Press Kit.
May 24-June 2, 1957.
Contents:
Includes following photographs:
- 1. Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. -- 1 photograph : 8 x
10 in.
- 2-5. C-123 provider. -- 4 photographs : 8 x 10
in.
- 6. Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter-Tanker. -- 1
photograph : 8 x 10 in.
- 7. General William Henry Tunner, Commander in Chief,
U.S. Air Force in Europe. -- 1 photograph : 10 x 8
in.
| 1. |
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. --
1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.
|
| 2-5. |
C-123 provider. -- 4
photographs : 8 x 10 in.
|
| 6. |
Boeing KC-97
Stratofreighter-Tanker. -- 1 photograph : 8 x 10
in.
|
| 7. |
General William Henry Tunner,
Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Force in Europe. -- 1
photograph : 10 x 8 in.
|
Box 11, Folder 8
Le prix des trois capitals, General Electric Trophy
Event, United States Air Force Press Kit.
May 24-June 2, 1957.
Contents:
Includes following photographs:
- William Rogers Herod, President of International
General Electric Co. -- 1 photograph : 7 x 5 in.
- R. E. Small, Manager-European Technical Service
Section, Aircraft Gas Turbine Division, General
Electric. -- 1 photograph : 9.25 x 7 in.
- General Electric J47 jet engine. -- 1 photograph : 7 x
9.25 in.
Box 12, Folder 11
Nineteenth S.B.A.C. [Society of British Aircraft
Constructors] Flying Display and Exhibition, Farnborough Aerodrome,
Press Kit.
September 1-7, 1958.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 9-17
Subseries 3.5:
Museums and Exhibitions.
n.d.
Physical Description:
9 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by institution.
Scope and Contents note
The materials in this subseries consist primarily of brochures and short
descriptive guides. Other materials include an article by Robin Higham,
"Aeronautical History-Some Offbeat British Archives," originally
published in the January 1963 issue of
American
Archivist
; the brochure for the official opening of the
American Hall of Aviation History at Northrop University in 1976; and
the 1932 illustrated
Handbook of the National
Aircraft Collection Exhibited in the United States National Museum
under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institution
, the
predecessor of the National Air and Space Museum.
Box 11, Folder 9
General.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 10
Air Force Museum.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 11
Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 12
American Hall of Aviation History.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 13
Aviation Hall of Fame.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 14
National Air and Space Museum [Smithsonian
Institution].
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 15
National Technical Museum, Prague.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 16
Royal United Service Institution Museum, London.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 17
State Street Trust Company, Boston, MA.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 18-19
Subseries 3.6:
Educational Institutions.
Circa 1945-1949.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries consists of a 1945/46 illustrated information brochure,
information for veterans, and list of courses offered in 1946, for
Northrop Institute; and an information brochure, circa 1949, on the
aviation department of Pasadena City College, Pasadena (CA).
Box 11, Folder 18
Northrop Aeronautical Institute.
1945/46.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 19
Pasadena City College, Aviation Department.
Circa 1949.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 12, Folder 12-13, Box 11, Folder 20-21
Subseries 3.7:
Societies and Associations.
1911-1990.
Physical Description:
4 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries includes a 1919 application form for the Raymond Orteig
Prize, administered by the Aero Club of America; the program from the
Aeronautical Society's first annual banquet in 1911; and minutes for the
Association technique maritime et aeronautique, 1953, 1955, and 1957
Box 12, Folder 12
Aero Club of America, Raymond Orteig $25,000 Prize
application form.
1919.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 20
Aeronautical Society. First Annual Banquet, Hotel
Astor.
April 27, 1911.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 12, Folder 13
Association technique maritime et aeronautique.
1953-1957.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Contents:
- Session de 1953.
- Session de 1955.
- Session de 1957.
Box 11, Folder 21
OX-5 Aviation Pioneers.
1990.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, file 22-23
Subseries 3.8:
Conferences.
1948-1951.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries includes a program for the Air Policy Conference held at
Los Angeles in April 1948.
Box 11, Folder 22
Air Policy Conference, Los Angeles, CA. Program.
April 13-15, 1948.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 23
19e Salon de l'aviation.
1951.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 24-25, Box 12, Folder 14-16
Subseries 3.9:
Airports.
Circa 1930-2002.
Physical Description:
5 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by location.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries includes a 1984 newspaper article on the Glendale (CA) Air
Terminal; 1935 rules, regulations, and information on the Kern County
(CA) airport in Bakersfield; brochures and newspaper articles,
1953-1984, on the history of Los Angeles International Airport; an
historical information sheet, circa 1930, on Lindbergh Field, San Diego;
and newspaper articles, 1978-2002, on Cable Airport and the Cable Family
of Upland (CA).
Box 12, Folder 14
Glendale (CA) Air Terminal.
1984.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 24
Kern County (CA) Airport.
1935.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 12, Folder 15
Los Angeles International Airport.
1953-1983.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 25
San Diego (CA), Lindbergh Field Municipal
Airport.
Circa 1930.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 12, Folder 16
Cable Airport (Upland, CA).
1978-2002.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 26-29, Box 42, Folder 1
Subseries 3.10:
Geographic.
Physical Description:
5 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries includes papers relating to the Portal of the Folded
Wings, Valhalla Memorial Park, Burbank (CA), in particular, orders of
service, 1956-1958, a 1975 photograph, and materials concerning the 1996
rededication; and a journal article and newspaper article concerning
early aviation in Santa Barbara (CA).
Box 11, Folder 26, Box 42, Folder 1
Burbank, CA. Portal of the Folded Wings, Valhalla Memorial
Park.
1956-1996.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 11, Folder 27
Denmark. Opening Tomorrow's Airways; Danish Aviation from
Ellehammer to SAS.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 28
Hawaii Aeronautics Commission. Annual Report.
1958.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 11, Folder 29
Santa Barbara, CA.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Series 4:
Corporate Promotional and Technical Material.
1915-1969
(bulk, 1947-1955).
Physical Description:
47 folders (2.25 boxes + 1 oversize box)
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by name of corporation.
Scope and Contents note
This series contains printed materials, including bibliographies, corporate
overviews, investment prospectuses, press kits and releases, sales
brochures, technical specification sheets, and typescript histories,
produced by individual aircraft manufacturers and airlines.
The bulk of the materials relates primarily to British and French
manufacturers, and dates from 1947 to 1955. British corporations include
Boulton Paul Aircraft, Bristol Aeroplane Co., British Aircraft Corp., De
Havilland Enterprise, English Electric Co., Folland Aircraft, Hawker
Siddeley Group, Hunting Percival Aircraft, Rolls Royce, Saunders-Roe, and
Vickers-Armstrongs. French corporations include Hispano-Suiza, Avions
Hurel-Dubois; Louis Breguet, Marcel Dassault, S.N.C.A.S.E. [Société
nationale de constructions aéronautiques du sud-est], S.N.C.A.S.O. [Société
nationale de constructions aéronautiques du sud-ouest], S.N.E.C.M.A.
[Société nationale d'étude et de construction de moteurs d'aviation],
Société des moteurs Salmson, Hydravions Schreck-F.B.A., Syndicat des
équipements et matériels aéronautiques. U.S. manufacturers include Aerojet
Engineering Corp., Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, Curtiss-Wright
Corp., Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. [DELCO], Lockheed Aircraft Corp.,
Northrop Aircraft, Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co., Romaircraft Corp., and
Sikorsky Aircraft Co. The
Catalogo annuario
of A.N.I.M.A. Gruppo costruttori aeronautici Italiani and
Avions et moteurs italiens of A.I.A.
[Associazone imprese aeronautiche] give an overview of Italian aircraft
construction in 1937 and circa 1951, respectively. Other aircraft
corporations represented include Fiat Aviazione, Fokker, and Svenska
Flygmotor Aktiebolaget.
Several individual aircraft are especially well documented in the materials.
The series contains complete blueprints (1915-1918) for the Curtiss JN4D; a
June 1936 range study of the Lockheed Electra bimotor airplane (the model
used by Amelia Earhart on her last flight); a technical data manual for
Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation airliner; and
plans for a model of Northrop Aircraft's 1945 P-61 "Black Widow" night
fighter; as well as a lavish brochure on the De Havilland Comet jet
airliner; extensive press releases on the Folland "Gnat"; a press kit on the
Saunders-Roe P.531 helicopter; and sales bulletins for the Sikorsky S-51
helicopter.
While the majority of corporations represented manufactured aircraft,
several, such as Aerojet Engineering, Hispano Suiza, Rolls Royce,
S.N.E.C.M.A. [Société nationale d'étude et de construction de moteurs
d'aviation], and Société des moteurs Salmson, were concerned primarily or
exclusively with manufacturing motors. In addition, Dayton Engineering
Laboratories Co. [DELCO] manufactured batteries used in aircraft engine
ignition, and Curtiss-Wright manufactured flight simulators. The Union
syndicale des industries aéronautiques françaises, a trade group, in 1957
produced an information card in the form of a slide-rool for identifying
French military aircraft.
While the materials emphasize contemporary production, those produced by
Hawker-Siddeley, Northrop, and Hydravions Schreck also include many
photographs of historic aircraft. In addition, DELCO's
Aviation ignition; a description of the DELCO generator
battery as applied to modern aviation engines
(1919); the
promotional books produced by Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro (circa 1930) and
Hydravions Schreck (1929); and the investment prospectus issued by
Romaircraft (1929) are examples of exceptional quality in design and
production.
The series also includes typescript corporate histories of Boeing Airplane
Co. (1954), Bristol Aeroplane Co. (1953), and Lear, Inc. (1956), and well as
of Braniff Airways (circa 1955), Eastern Airlines (1954), Los Angeles
Airways (1955), and Pan American Airways (circa 1959).
Box 16, Folder 1
A.I.A. [Associazone Imprese Aeronautiche] (Italy)
Avions et moteurs italiens.
Circa 1951.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 1
A.N.I.M.A. Gruppo Costruttori Aeronautici Italiani,
Catalogo annuario.
1937.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 2
Aerojet Engineering Corporation (Azusa, CA).
1951.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 7
Avions Hurel-Dubois (Meudon, France) brochure on high aspect
ratio aircraft.
Circa 1955.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 3
Boeing Airplane Company typescript short history.
November 12, 1954.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 2
Boulton Paul Aircraft (Wolverhampton, Great Britain) press
releases on P.III research aircraft and P.119 advanced
trainer.
1950-1951.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 4
Braniff Airways typescript history.
Circa 1955.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 3
Bristol Aeroplane Co. (Bristol, Great Britain) press
releases.
1953-1955.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 5
British Aircraft Corporation.
1962-circa 1964.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 43, Folder 17
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company blueprints for Curtiss
JN4D.
1915-1918.
Physical Description:
1 portfolio.
Box 14, Folder 6
Curtiss-Wright Corporation (Carlstadt, NJ), Curtiss-Wright Dehmel
501 Instrument Flight Duplicator brochure.
Circa 1950.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 7
Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company [DELCO] (Dayton, OH).
Aviation ignition; a description of the DELCO
generator battery ignition as applied to modern aviation
engines
.
c1919.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Dayton, OH: Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company.
Box 16, Folder 4
De Havilland Enterprise (Great Britain).
1952-1957.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 8
Eastern Airlines typescript history.
1954.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 9
English Electric Company (London) press release for the English
Electric Lightning.
September 1, 1958.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 10
Fiat Aviazione (Turin, Italy) brochure.
1957.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 11
Fokker (Amsterdam, Netherlands) brochure.
June 1951.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 5
Folland Aircraft (Hamble, Great Britain) press releases relating
to Folland "Gnat".
1958.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 12
Hawker Siddeley Group (London) brochures.
Circa 1954.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 13
Hispano Suiza (Bois-Colombes, France) brochures.
1951-1955.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 6
Hunting Percival Aircraft (Luton, Great Britain) press release
relating to participation in Farnborough Air Show.
September 1954.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 15
Hydravions Schreck-F.B.A. (Argenteuil, France) promotional
book.
Circa 1930.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 14
Lear, Incorporated. Talk by Richard M. Mock, President, before
the New York Sociey of Security Analists.
August 23, 1956.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 15-16
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (Burbank, CA).
1936, circa 1955.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 14, Folder 15
Range Study of Lockheed Electra Bimotor Airplane.
June 4, 1936.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 16
Technical Data Manual for Trans World Airlines' Super G
Constellations [L-1049G].
Circa 1955.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 17
Los Angeles Airways press releases and fact sheet.
1955.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 18
Louis Breguet (Paris) information sheets on the Breguet 940
"Integral" and the Breguet 1001 & 1100 "Taon".
Circa 1958.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 19
Marcel Dassault (Saint-Cloud, Seine-et-Oise, France) information
sheet on Etendard IV.
Circa 1956.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 8
Northrop Aircraft (Hawthorne, CA) brochure on Northrop Airplanes
(1927-1943) and plans for model of P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter,
1945.
1927-1945.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 20
Pan American Airways history, bibliography, and travel
brochure.
Circa 1939-1959.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 9
Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co. (Philadelpha, PA) promotional
book.
Circa 1930.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 21
Roamaircraft Corp. (Los Angeles, CA) investment
prospectus.
1929.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 10
Rolls Royce (Derby, Great Britain) promotional book and brochures
on Merlin/Griffon, Dart propeller turbine, and Avon turbo-jet
engines.
Circa 1946-circa
1953.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 11-12
S.N.C.A.S.E. [Société nationale de constructions aéronautiques du
sud-est] (Paris, France).
1949-1953.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 16, Folder 11
Information sheets for various aircraft.
1949-1953.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 12
Promotional book.
June 20, 1953.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 13-14
S.N.C.A.S.O. [Société nationale de constructions aéronautiques du
sud-ouest] (Paris, France).
Circa 1947-1953.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 16, Folder 13
Brochure on SO-95 "Corse II" and information sheet on SO-30P
"Bretagne".
Circa
1947-1948.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 16, Folder 14
Press Kit.
April/June 1953.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Contents:
Includes following photographs [5.25 x 7 in.]:
| 1. |
SO 30 Atar. |
| 2. |
SO 30 Nene. |
| 3. |
SO Ariel 1120 helicopter. |
| 4-6. |
SO Bretagne 30P fitted with Palas
jets.
|
| 7. |
SO Djinn 120 helicopter. |
| 8. |
SO Espadon 6021. |
| 9. |
SO Espadon 6025. |
| 10. |
SO Espadon 6026. |
| 11-12. |
SO Farfadet 1310
helicopter.
|
| 13-14. |
SO Trident 9000 jet
fighter.
|
| 15-17. |
SO Vautour 4050 jet
fighter.
|
| 18. |
DC3 fitted with SNCASO Palas jet
engine.
|
| 19. |
DC3 fitted with SNCASO Palas jet
engine. Photograph No. 4538.
|
| 20. |
DC3 [crossed out, "C46" added by
hand] fitted with SNCASO Palas jet engine.
|
Box 14, Folder 22-24
S.N.E.C.M.A. [Société nationale d'étude et de construction de
moteurs d'aviation] (Paris, France).
1951-1957.
Physical Description:
3 folders.
Box 14, Folder 22
Promotional book.
June 1951.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 23
Promotional book.
May 15, 1957.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 14, Folder 24
Brochures and press release on ATAR engines.
Circa 1957.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 15, Folder 2
Saunders-Roe P.531 helicopter, Press kit.
1958.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Contents:
Includes 3 photographs [6.5 x 8.5 in.].
Box 15, Folder 3
Sikorsky Aircraft Co. (Bridgeport, CT) S-51 helicopter, Sales
Bulletins Nos. 101-112.
December 5, 1945 to August 1,
1946.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Contents:
Includes the following photographs:
| 1-3. |
3 photographs : 8 x 10 in. |
| 4-5. |
2 photographs : 10 x 8 in. |
Box 15, Folder 1
Société des moteurs Salmson (Billancourt-Seine, France) brochure
on Moteur 8 AS-02.
Circa 1955.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 15, Folder 4
Svenska Flygmotor Aktiebolaget (Trollhättan, Sweden)
brochure.
Circa 1954.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 15, Folder 5
Syndicat des équipements et matériels aéronautiques (Paris,
France) Annuaire.
1953.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 15, Folder 6
TWA [Trans World Airlines] brochures.
1961-circa 1969.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 15, Folder 7, Box 15, Folder 7
Union syndicale des industries aéronautiques françaises,
slide-rule information card on military aircraft.
1957.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
General Physical Description note: 3
copies.
Box 16, Folder 16
Vickers-Armstrongs (Weybridge, Great Britain) promotional
materials.
1950,
1953.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Series 5:
Books, Periodicals, Pamphlets, and Technical Manuals.
1887-1991
(bulk, 1925-1945).
Physical Description:
2.5 boxes.
Arrangement note
Organized into 4 subseries:
- Subseries 5.1: Books, 1887-1980
- Subseries 5.2: Periodicals, 1928-1991
- Subseries 5.3: Booklets and Pamphlets, 1895, 1936-1947
- Subseries 5.4: Technical Manuals and Reports, 1904-1958
Scope and Contents note
This series comprises materials relating to published books, as well as
pamphlets, periodicals, conference papers, and typescript reports and
coursework relating to general aviation topics, in particular, science and
engineering. The book materials include illustration blocks and color plates
to Gaston Tissandier,
Histoire des ballons et des
aéronauts celébres
(1887). The pamphlets include several printed
in pocket book format for use by aviators "in the field". The periodicals
include in-house publications by airplane manufacturers and commercial
airlines, as well as by other businesses that employed airplanes in the
course of their operations.
Box 17, Folder 1-3, Box 19, Folder 1
Subseries 5.1:
Books.
1887-1980.
Physical Description:
4 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by author.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries includes the corrected proofsheets of John F. Fulton,
Aviation medicine in its preventive aspects;
an historical survey
(1948); Mary Belle Spencer,
No. 2310. Criminal File. Exposed! Limberg's baby was
never kidnapped or murdered
(1933); the illustration block
and color plates to Gaston Tissandier,
Histoire
des ballons et des aéronauts celébres
(1887); and
promotional materials for the Time-Life Books series
Epic of Flight (1980ff).
Box 17, Folder 1
Fulton, John F.
Aviation medicine in
its preventive aspects; an historical survey
. Proof
sheets.
1948.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Oxford University Press. Inscribed by the author to the
Rev. John F. B. Carruthers.
Box 17, Folder 2
Spencer, Mary Belle.
No. 2310.
Criminal File. Exposed! Limberg's baby was never kidnapped or
murdered
.
c1933.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Chicago.
Box 19, Folder 1
Tissandier, Gaston.
Histoire des
ballons et des aéronauts celébres
. Illustration block
[no text] and color plates.
1887.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Paris: H. Launette.
Box 17, Folder 3
Time-Life Books promotional materials for
Epic of Flight.
1980ff.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 4-19, Box 19, Folder 2-5
Subseries 5.2:
Periodicals.
1928-1991
(bulk, 1928-1959).
Physical Description:
20 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by title.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries consists of unbound issues of periodicals relating to
aeronautics and aviation, including in-house publications by airplane
manufacturers and commercial airlines. Most titles are represented by
only one or two issues. The items include bulletin 11 (1932) of
The Early Birds; two issues from 1940 of
Senza cozzar di rocco, the in-house
publication of the Italian Caproni aviation company, both inscribed to
Dr. Carruthers by Gianni Caproni Conte di Taliedo; and incomplete runs
(including incomplete issues) of
Southern
California Business
(1928-1929) and
Standard Oil Bulletin (1927-1930).
Box 17, Folder 4
AQ [Aviation Quarterly] Report. No.
3.
March 1978.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 5
Air Line Pilot. Souvenir
Reprint.
August 1977.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 6
Aviation Space Education Association &
Aerospace Ambassadors News
. No. 5.
November 1991.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 7
Boeing Magazine. Vol. 29, no.
7.
July 1959.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 19, Folder 2
British Aircraft Industry
Bulletin
.
30th September 1950,
31st December 1950.
Physical Description:
1 folder. 2 issues.
Box 17, Folder 8
Bulletin de liaison et de documentation du
secrétariat général a l'aviation civile et commerciale
[France]. No. 54.
January-February 1951.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 9
Convair Traveler. Vol. 8, no.
4.
August 1956.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 10
Cross & Cockade [Society of World
War I Aero Historians].
January 28, 1977,
March 18, 1977.
Physical Description:
1 folder. 3 copies of January 28, 1977, issue.
Box 17, Folder 11
The Early Birds.
Bulletin
11.
6 June, 1932.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 12
The Falcon [Eastern Airlines]. Vol.
2, no. 19.
September 28, 1964.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 13
Historic Aviation.
May 1969.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 14
Ida Van Smith Flight Clubs Historical
Review
. Vol. 1, no. 5.
1988.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 15
National Geographic Magazine, vol.
64, no. 6.
December 1933.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 16
Royal Aero Club Gazette. Vol. 7, no.
5.
May 1953.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 19, Folder 3
Senza cozzar di rocco; notiziario delle
attivit… culturali e sportive del dopolavoro aziendale
Caproni
.
1940.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Vol. 18, no. 6 (April 1940), numero speciale (May 27,
1940).
Box 17, Folder 17
Shell Aviation News.
1950-1951.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. No. 140 (February 1950), no. 158 (August 1951).
Box 19, Folder 4
Southern California
Business.
1928-1929.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Incomplete.
Box 17, Folder 18
Standard Oil Bulletin.
1927-1930.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Incomplete.
Box 19, Folder 5
World Airlanes. Vol. 20, no.
10.
October 1955.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 19
World War I Aeroplanes. No.
70.
October 1978.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 20-28
Subseries 5.3:
Booklets and Pamphlets.
1895,
1936-1947.
Physical Description:
9 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically by date of publication.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries consists of nine items of a miscellaneous nature. The
earliest is an 1895 Congressional report on the practicality of
commercial aviation. Seven items, published in the 1930's and 1940's,
were printed in pocket book format, for use by aviators "in the field".
They cover such topics as military insignia, parachutes, weather,
thoughts and prayers for service men on active duty, and
Our Red Army ally. The final item is a small
religious tract on birds in the Bible.
Box 17, Folder 20
U.S. Congress, 53d Congress, 3d Session, Committee on
Interstate Commerce. Report No. 992. Report on the practicality of
commercial aviation.
February 1895.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 21
U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
Notice
to Aviators
. No. 7.
April 1, 1936.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 22
A little book of the love of God; some
thoughts and prayers for men on active
service
.
1939.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Box 17, Folder 23
Army and Navy Legion of Valor of the U.S.
General orders (1941-1942). Vol. 52, no.
8.
May 12, 1942.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 24
Pocket reference guide, army, navy, marine
corps insignia
.
March 1943.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Supplement to the March, 1943
Reader's
Digest
.
Box 17, Folder 25
U.S. Navy, Aviation Training Division.
Cold Front. Aerology Series No. 6.
1944.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
Box 17, Folder 26
Our Red Army ally. War Department
Pamphlet No. 21-30.
April 23, 1945.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Washington, DC: War Department.
Box 17, Folder 27
Whanslaw, H. W.
Birds of the air;
birds of the Bible
. Bible Background Books, No.
5.
1947.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Wallington, Surrey: Religious Education Press.
Box 17, Folder 28
Parachute Technicians C.A.A. Regulations
(Chapters 25 and 54)
.
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Manchester, CT: Pioneer Parachute Company.
Box 17, Folder 29-30, Box 18, Folder 1-7, Box 19, Folder 6
Subseries 5.4:
Technical Manuals and Reports.
1904-1958
(bulk, 1925-1945).
Physical Description:
10 folders + 2 folio volumes.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by author/title.
Scope and Contents note
This subseries consists of materials of a scientific or technical nature
relating to aviation. These include a 1904 article by Albert Francis
Zahm on atmospheric friction on even surfaces; two published papers,
1925 and 1934, by Alfred Hubert Roy Fedden on aero-cooled engines; and a
1934 U.S. Army Air Corps handbook on aerodynamic formulae. Materials
that appear to have been prepared for use in an educational setting
include a typescript course on stability and control of flight, circa
1940, by H. G. Mazurkiewicz; Weems System of Navigation course on
celestial navigation, 1941; and a binder marked "Haskins", containing
printed, typed, and handwritten documents and reports on supercharging
engines, and other engineering subjects, dated 1930-1945, and
originating at Purdue University. The subseries also includes Air
Service Tactical School, Langley, VA, combat orders for 1925-1926, and a
1943 report to the Civil Aeronautics Board on air pick-up service.
Box 19, Folder 6
Air Service Tactical School, Langley Field, VA., Combat
Orders 1925-1926.
1925-1926.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Book Collection: Aviation Folio HE6238 .AL51
All American Aviation,
Report to the
Civil Aeronautics Board on air pick-up service
. Docket
857, Exhibit 13.
October 4, 1943.
General Physical Description note: 1
volume. 1 volume : 14.5 x 9 in.
Box 17, Folder 29
Ashley, R. B.,
Air Corps Technical
Report No. 3956: Handbook of aerodynamic
formulae
.
1934.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Wright Field, Dayton, OH: War Department, Air Corps, Materiel
Division, April 11, 1934.
Box 17, Folder 30
Fedden, Alfred Hubert Roy, papers on air-cooled aero
engines.
1925-1933.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 17, Folder 30, Item 1
Fedden, A. H. R. Radial aircooled aero engines, a paper
read before the International Air Congress at Brussels, 1925;
the supercharging of aero and motor vehicle engines, a paper
read before the Institution of Automobile Engineers, February
1927.
1925,
February 1927.
Box 17, Folder 30, Item 2
Fedden, A. H. R. Possible future development of
air-cooled aero engines. Preprint of paper presented at the
International Automotive Engineering Congress, Chicago, August
28-September 4, [1933].
August 1933.
Box 18, Folder 1-2
"Haskins" binder on engineering subjects.
1930-1945.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Contents:
Three-ring binder, marked "Haskins" on cover, containing printed,
typed, and handwritten technical reports on supercharging of engines
and other engineering subjects. Dates of the printed materials range
from 1930 to 1945. Some printed materials stamped Purdue University,
and some handwritten notes on forms approved for use by Purdue
University.
Box 18, Folder 3
Kidd, J. S.; Shelly, Maynard W.; Jeantheau, Gabriel; Fitts,
Paul M.
The effect of enroute flow control on
terminal system performance; a study in human engineering
aspects of radar air traffic control
.
April 1958.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH: Wright Air Development
Center.
Box 18, Folder 4-6
Mazurkiewicz, H. G.,
Stability and
control of flight
.
Circa 1940.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Book Collection: Aviation Folio TD586 .W41
Weems System of Naviation,
Course 2-A:
Celestial Navigation
.
c1941.
General Physical Description note: 1
volume. 11 1/2 x 9 inches.
Note:
Annapolis, MD: Weems System of Naviation.
Box 18, Folder 7
Zahm, Albert Francis, "Atmospheric friction on even
surfaces",
The Philosophical
Magazine
, pp. 58-67.
July 1904.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Series 6:
Newspaper Clippings.
1844-1983.
Physical Description:
0.5 box + 1 oversize box.
Arrangement note
Organized into 3 groups: (1) 1844-1902, and (2) circa 1920-1983, each ordered
chronologically; and (3) 1 scrapbook, 1947-1948.
Preservation Note:
All 20th-century clippings-with the exception of oversize materials-have been
preservation photocopied; the originals have been placed in acid-free,
buffered envelopes, in the same folders as the preservation photocopies.
Scope and Contents note
This series is ordered as follows: (1) 1844 through 1902, (2) circa
1920-1983, and (3) scrapbook, 1947-1948.
The first group was given to Claremont Men's College by A. N. Kemp (possibly
Alexander Nesbitt Kemp [1879-1955], former president of Pacific Mutual Life
Insurance Co and wartime president of American Airlines) through his
grandson, Sandy Kemp-Clark. The materials date from the years 1844-1847,
1872, 1879-1884, and 1898-1902, and are arranged chronologically. The
majority of clippings are taken from the
Illustrated
London News
, with one from
The
Graphic
(1872), two from
Black and
White
(1898, 1899), and two from unidentified sources (1882,
circa 1902). The clippings relate exclusively to ballooning, and cover such
subjects as a copper balloon at Paris (1844); ascents by British aeronauts
James Hampton (1844) and Charles Green (1847); Dupuy de Lôme's balloon
(1872); military ballooning (1873); balloon making (1874); the Brighton
Review and the
Illustrated London News
balloon (1883); a pictorial commemoration of a centenary of ballooning
(1884); Renard's and Krebs' electrically-steered balloon (1884); "From the
Thames to the Seine by Balloon" (1898); Andree's Arctic expedition (1899);
and Santos Dumont and his balloon at Monaco (1902).
The newspaper clippings in the second group fall into two time periods,
1928-1943, and [1968] 1974-1983. The clippings are arranged chronologically,
with a few undated items at the beginning of each period. Clippings for the
first period cover such subjects as Harriet Quimby and Ruth Law (undated);
airlines operating in California (1928); the Burwash Aerial Expedition to
the Arctic and the discovery of the remains of the Andree expedition (1930);
the autogiro (1930, 1931); Mrs. Keith-Miller (1930); the destruction of the
British airship R-101 (1930); the Schneider Trophy Race (1931); new
developments in airplanes (1933, 1936); Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith (1934);
and the introduction of the Douglas DC-4 (1937). Oversize materials for the
same period cover such subjects as aviation pioneer John Montgomery (1930,
1968); instrument ("blind") flight (1933); Amelia Earhart (1937); and the
introduction of the Lockheed Constellation (1943). Clippings for the period
1974-1983 relate primarily to aviation in Southern California, and cover
such subjects as reunions and deaths of pioneer aviators; Howard Hughes'
"Spruce Goose" (1975, 1983); the Continental Airlines DC-10 (1975,
oversize); Santa Paula Airport (1976, 1978); and the 50th anniversary of
Charles A. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the 1977 commemorative tour
(1977).
Box 20, Folder 1
6.1.
1844-1902.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Custodial History note
Gift to Claremont Men's College by A. N. Kemp through his grandson, Sandy
Kemp-Clark.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 3
Illustrated London News, vol. 4, no.
100, p. 193-194.
March 30, 1844.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 4
Illustrated London News, p.
127-128.
August 24, 1844.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 5
Illustrated London News, p.
29-30.
July 10, 1847.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 1
Clipping,
Illustrated London
News
, "Loss of a French Aeronaut".
[October 9, 1847.]
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 2
Clipping,
Illustrated London
News
, "Ascent of Mr. Green at Brussels".
[October 23, 1847.]
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 6
The Graphic, vol. 5, no. 117, p.
165-166 and clipping from p. 173 [ascent of Dupuy de Lôme's balloon
at Fort Vincennes, France].
February 24, 1872.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 7
Illustrated London News, p.
89-90.
July 26, 1879.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 8
Illustrated London News, p.
425-428.
November 8, 1879.
General Physical Description note: 2
sheets.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 9
Clipping, unidentified publication.
March 1882.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 10
Illustrated London News, p.
241-242.
March 11, 1882.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 11
Illustrated London News, vol. 82, no.
2293, p. 305-306 and clipping from p. 309.
March 31, 1883.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 12
Clipping,
Illustrated London
News
, p. 318.
September 29, 1883.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 13
Illustrated London News, p.
91-94.
January 26, 1884.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 14
Clipping,
Illustrated London
News
, p. 205.
August 30, 1884.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 15
Black and White, p.
833-836.
December 31, 1898.
General Physical Description note: 2
sheets.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 16
Black and White, vol. 17, no. 420, p.
189-190.
February 18, 1899.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 17
Illustrated London News, p.
203-204.
February 8, 1902.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 18
Illustrated London News, vol. 120,
no. 3279, p. 267-268.
February 22, 1902.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 19
Illustrated London News, p. 725-726
and clipping from unidentified page.
May 17, 1902.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 20
Illustrated London News, p. 827-828
and clipping from p. 840.
June 7, 1902.
Box 20, Folder 1, Item 21
Clipping from unidentified periodical.
Circa June 1902.
Box 20, Folder 2-9, Box 21, Folder 1-20
6.2.
Circa
1920-1983.
Physical Description:
28 folders.
Box 21, Folder 1
1920s-1930s.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 20, Folder 9
Charles A. Lindbergh.
May 22, 1927.
Note: 1 folder. 1959 facsimile of front
page of the
Chicago Sunday
Tribune
.
Box 20, Folder 2
John Montgomery.
No date;
May 12, 1968.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 page from unidentified newspaper + 1 page from San Diego
Independent, May 12, 1968.
Box 21, Folder 2
1928.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 21, Folder 3
1930.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 21, Folder 4
1931.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 21, Folder 5
1932.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 20, Folder 3, Box 21, Folder 6
1933.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 21, Folder 7
1934.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 20, Folder 4, Box 21, Folder 8
1936.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 20, Folder 5, Box 21, Folder 9
1937.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 20, Folder 6
January 10,
1943.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 21, Folder 10
1970s-1980s.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 21, Folder 11
1974.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 20, Folder 7, Box 21, Folder 12
1975.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 20, Folder 8, Box 21, Folder 13
1976.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 21, Folder 14
1977.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 21, Folder 15
1978.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 21, Folder 16
1979.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 21, Folder 17
1980.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 21, Folder 18
1981.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 21, Folder 19
1982.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 21, Folder 20
1983.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Book Collection: Aviation
Folio TL508 .C2
6.3.
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings.
September 1947-January
1948.
General Physical Description note: 1 volume.
24 p.: 12 x 9 in. + comic book "Adventures in Jet Propulsion"
(Schenectady, NY: General Electric, n.d.).
Series 7:
Maps.
Circa 1924-1944
(bulk, 1927-1931).
Physical Description:
71 folders (5 boxes).
Preservation note: Many maps prepared by the
Aeronautics Branch were updated by gluing revisions onto the earlier
rendition, creating a "composite" map. As the glue has become unstable, all
composite maps have been replaced for normal research use by preservation
copies, and the originals removed to boxes 25 and 26.
Arrangement note
Arranged alphabetically by state and name of airport or airfield.
Custodial History note
The maps were discovered in the basement of Mabel Shaw Bridges Auditorium in
May 1962, and may not have been collected by Dr. Carruthers.
Scope and Contents note
With a single exception, this series consists of draft maps prepared by the
Aeronautics Branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce for publication in its
List of airports and landing fields,
Aeronautics bulletin, no. 5 (Washington, DC: Government Printing office,
1928-1931) and
Descriptions of airports and landing
fields in the United States
, Airway bulletin, no. 2 (Washington,
DC: Government Printing Office, 1931ff). The maps comprise two series: those
prepared prior to 1927 are drawn on 11 x 7 inch heavy paper stock, those
prepared after 1927 on heavy card stock of the same size. Each sheet
contains two images, the upper a map of the region around the airport, the
lower a map of the airport or air field itself. The sheets are marked in
pencil with instructions to the printer on resizing the images (those
prepared before 1927 were to be 4 1/2 inches high, those after 1927 3 inches
wide). Maps prepared after 1927 have one or more Department of Commerce
stamps on the back, containing a requisition number and a date, presumably
when the map was retrieved from a central file for review or revision; many
of these maps are also annotated in pencil, "approval of engraver's proof
waived". The maps were found arranged alphabetically by state; this order
has been retained. States represented by the largest number of maps are, in
descending order: California (70 items), Ohio (37 items), Georgia (22
items), Arizona and Michigan (20 items each), New York and Texas (19 items
each), and New Mexico (16 items).
The single map in the series that does not originate with the Bureau of
Aviation is a Locher-Hall map of airline routes and great circle distances
around the world, based on Los Angeles area, dated 1944.
Box 22-26
United States Department of Commerce, Aeronautics Branch, Draft
maps.
Circa 1924-1931.
Physical Description:
5 boxes.
Box 22, Folder 1, Box 25, Folder 1
Alabama.
1929.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 22, Folder 1
1929.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 3 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 1
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 22, Folder 2, Box 25, Folder 2
Arizona.
Pre-1927,
1928-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 22, Folder 2
Pre-1927,
1928-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 11 pieces; 1928-1931: 9 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 2
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 piece.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 22, Folder 3, Box 25, Folder 3
Arkansas.
Pre-1927,
1928.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 22, Folder 3
Pre-1927,
1928.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 1 piece; 1928: 1 piece.
Box 25, Folder 3
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 piece.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 22, Folder 4-7, Box 25, Folder 4-6
California.
Pre-1927,
1928-1931.
Physical Description:
7 folders.
Box 22, Folder 4
Pre-1927.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 8 pieces.
Box 22, Folder 5
A-O.
1928-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 23 pieces.
Box 22, Folder 6
R-S.
1927-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 26 pieces.
Box 22, Folder 7
T-Y.
1927,
1929-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 13 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 4-6
Composite original draft maps.
Physical Description:
3 folders.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 25, Folder 4
A-L.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder. 10 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 5
M-Saugus.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder. 12 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 6
Seal Beach-W.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder. 9 pieces.
Box 22, Folder 8, Box 25, Folder 7
Colorado.
Pre-1927,
1929-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 22, Folder 8
Pre-1927,
1929-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 2 pieces; 1929-1931: 11 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 7
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 3 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 22, Folder 9, Box 25, Folder 8
Connecticut.
Pre-1927,
1927,
1929-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 22, Folder 9
Pre-1927,
1927,
1929-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 1 piece; 1927, 1929-1931: 5 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 8
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 22, Folder 10, Box 25, Folder 9
Delaware.
Pre-1927,
1928-1929.
Physical Description:
2 files.
Box 22, Folder 10
Pre-1927,
1928-1929.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 1 piece; 1928-1929: 2 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 9
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 22, Folder 11, Box 25, Folder 10
District of Columbia.
Pre-1927,
1929-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 22, Folder 11
Pre-1927,
1929-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 1 piece, 1929-1931: 3 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 10
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 3 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 22, Folder 12, Box 25, Folder 11
Florida.
Pre-1927,
1927-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 22, Folder 12
Pre-1927,
1927-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 2 pieces; 1927-1931: 9 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 11
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 4 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 23, Folder 1, Box 25, Folder 12
Georgia.
Pre-1927,
1928-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 23, Folder 1
Pre-1927,
1928-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 3 pieces; 1928-1931: 19 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 12
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 3 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 23, Folder 2, Box 25, Folder 13
Idaho.
1930.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 23, Folder 2
1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 4 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 13
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 piece.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 23, Folder 3, Box 25, Folder 14
Illinois.
Pre-1927,
1928-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 23, Folder 3
Pre-1927,
1928-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 1 piece; 1928-1931: 13 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 14
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 5 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 23, Folder 4, Box 25, Folder 15
Indiana.
Pre-1927,
1928-1930.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 23, Folder 4
Pre-1927,
1928-1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 1 piece; 1928-1930: 7 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 15
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 3 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 23, Folder 5, Box 25, Folder 16
Iowa.
1928-1929.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 23, Folder 5
1928-1929.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Box 25, Folder 16
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 23, Folder 6
Kansas.
1927-1928.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 piece.
Box 23, Folder 7
Louisiana.
Pre-1927.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Box 23, Folder 8
Maryland.
Pre-1927,
1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 1 piece; 1930: 1 piece.
Box 23, Folder 9, Box 26, Folder 1
Massachusetts.
Pre-1927,
1927-1930.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 23, Folder 9
Pre-1927,
1927-1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 2 pieces; 1927-1930: 8 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 1
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 5 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 23, Folder 10, Box 26, Folder 2
Michigan.
Pre-1927,
1927-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 23, Folder 10
Pre-1927,
1927-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 9 pieces; 1927-1931: 11 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 2
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 4 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 23, Folder 11, Box 26, Folder 3
Minnesota.
1927-1930.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 23, Folder 11
1927-1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 12 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 3
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 4 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 23, Folder 12
Mississippi.
Pre-1927.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 piece.
Box 23, Folder 13
Missouri.
1928,
1930-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 4 pieces.
Box 23, Folder 14, Box 26, Folder 4
Montana.
Pre-1927,
1927-1930.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 23, Folder 14
Pre-1927,
1927-1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 2 pieces; 1927-1930: 7 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 4
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 23, Folder 15
Nebraska.
1929.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 piece.
Box 23, Folder 16, Box 26, Folder 5
Nevada.
1927,
1929,
1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 23, Folder 16
1927,
1929,
1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 5
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 piece.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 23, Folder 17
New Jersey.
Pre-1927.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 piece.
Box 24, Folder 1, Box 26, Folder 6
New Mexico.
Pre-1927,
1928-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 24, Folder 1
Pre-1927,
1928-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 10 pieces; 1928-1931: 6 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 6
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 4 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 24, Folder 2, Box 26, Folder 7
New York.
Pre-1927,
1929-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 24, Folder 2
Pre-1927,
1929-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 6 pieces; 1929-1931: 13 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 7
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 5 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 24, Folder 3, Box 26, Folder 8
North Dakota.
1930.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 24, Folder 3
1930.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 8
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 piece.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 24, Folder 4-6, Box 26, Folder 9
Ohio.
Pre-1927,
1927-1931.
Physical Description:
3 folders.
Box 24, Folder 4
Pre-1927,
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 8 pieces.
Box 24, Folder 5
A-L.
1927-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 18 pieces.
Box 24, Folder 6
M-Y.
1927,
1929-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 11 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 9
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 7 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 24, Folder 7, Box 26, Folder 10
Pennsylvania.
Pre-1927,
1929-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 24, Folder 7
Pre-1927,
1929-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 1 piece; 1929-1931: 9 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 10
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 3 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 24, Folder 8, Box 26, Folder 11
Rhode Island.
1927,
1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 24, Folder 8
1927,
1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 11
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 piece.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 24, Folder 9
South Carolina.
Pre-1927,
1929.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 2 pieces (1 dated 1924); 1929: 1 piece.
Box 24, Folder 10, Box 26, Folder 12
South Dakota.
1927-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 24, Folder 10
1927-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 6 pieces.
Box 26, Folder 12
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 piece.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 24, Folder 11, Box 26, Folder 13
Texas.
Pre-1927,
1927,
1929-1931.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 24, Folder 11
Pre-1927,
1927,
1929-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. Pre-1927: 12 pieces; 1927, 1929-1931: 7
pieces.
Box 26, Folder 13
Composite original draft maps.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Material Specific Details note: Fragile.
Box 24, Folder 12
Wisconsin.
1928-1931.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 2 pieces.
Box 24, Folder 13
Wyoming.
1929.
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 3 pieces.
Box 24, Folder 14
Locher-Hall modern tele-curve map; airline courses and great
circle distances around the world, based on Los Angeles
area.
c1944.
General Physical Description note: 1 map : 18
x 23 in.
Note:
Los Angeles: Locher-Hall Tele-Curve Co.
Series 8:
Sheet Music.
1876-1952
(bulk, 1900-1952).
General Physical Description note: 48
items, including duplicates (1 box).
Arrangement note
Grouped into (1) piano scores and (2) sheet music covers, within each group
ordered alphabetically by song title.
Scope and Contents note
The bulk of this series consists of sheet music of songs with aeronautical
themes. The remainder consists of photographic reproductions of sheet music
covers, also of songs with aeronautical themes, taken from originals then in
the Alden S. Condict Collection; the present whereabouts of this collection
are unknown. The earliest materials--
Go Not, Happy
Day
(1876; sheet music) and
Dawn of the
Century March & Two Step
(1900; cover)--make no mention of
aviation in their lyrics, but their covers include illustrations of
balloons. The bulk of the collection, dating from 1909 to 1950 and-with the
exception of the British
Four Songs of the Air
Service
(1918)--all written for the American popular market,
evidence the hold of the airplane on the American public imagination in that
period, in particular the years prior to the US entry into World War I in
1917 (22 items). In addition, five items from 1927 (including
Lucky Lindy! by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Abel Baer)
celebrate Charles A. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, and two items from
1938 the exploits of Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan. Four songs written during
World War II praise the contribution of the air services to the US war
effort. The latest item is
Song of the Air
Force
(1950), by the pioneer aviator Florence Lowe "Pancho"
Barnes, inscribed by the author to Dr. Carruthers, and signed by Maj.
Charles E. "Chet" Yaeger.
Box 27, Folder 1-33
Piano Scores.
1876-1950.
Physical Description:
33 folders.
Box 27, Folder 1
The Aero Equine Express March. Music
by Charles H. E. Remondino.
1930.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
San Diego: Burlingame Pub. Co., c1930.
Box 27, Folder 2
American Conquest. March & two
step by John L. Greenwald.
1911.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
General note
New York: Emil Ascher, c1911.
Box 27, Folder 3
California's San Diego. Words by
Durward Johnson, music by Lottie Hicks.
1936.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Pine Valley, CA: Eckener Press, c1936.
Box 27, Folder 4
Come Josephine in My Flying Machine (Up She
Goes!)
. Words by Alfred Bryan, music by Fred
Fischer.
1910.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Maurice Shapiro, c1910.
Box 27, Folder 5
Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship. By
George Evans (music) and Ren Shields (words).
1904.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Chas. K. Harris, c1904.
Box 27, Folder 6
Dangerous Blues. Words by Anna Welker
Brown, music by Billie Brown.
1921.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Kansas City, MO: J. W. Jenkins Sons Music Co., c1921.
Box 27, Folder 7
Dawn of the Century March & Two
Step. By E. T. Paull.
1900.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: E. T. Paull Music Co., c1900.
Box 27, Folder 8
The Flier's Dream. Lyrics by Jesse G.
M. Glick, music by Ida Westerberg.
1927.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Mill Valley, CA: Ida Westerberg, c1927.
Box 27, Folder 9
Flying. By Don J. A.
Gono.
1915.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Music Publishers, c1915.
Box 27, Folder 10
Four Songs of the Air Service. Words
by Edward Lockton, music by Eric Coates.
1918.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
London, West & Co., c1918.
Contents:
Ordered Overseas,
Five and Twenty Bombers,
Billy,
The Finest
Job of All
.
Box 27, Folder 11
Go Not, Happy Day. Words by Edward E.
Rice, music by J. Cheever Goodwin.
1876.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Boston: Louis P. Goullaud, c1876. From Rice & Goodwin's opera
bouffe,
Evangeline.
Box 27, Folder 12
I am a Knight of the Open Way. Words
by Joy York, music by Dorothy Mayhew.
1937.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
[Hollywood, CA: Dorothy Mayhew,] c1937.
Box 27, Folder 13
I Could Live in an Aeroplane. Words
by A. MacArthur, music by G. Elwin Willats.
1911.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
San Francisco, CA: Willats Music Bureau, c1911.
Box 27, Folder 14
I Miss You Miss America. Words by W.
Wolfe Gilbert, music by Lee S. Roberts.
1916.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co., c1916.
Box 27, Folder 15
I'm the King of Air. Words and music
by G. Forbes Marrack.
1915.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
San Francisco, CA: Forbes Publishing Co., c1915.
Box 27, Folder 16
If You Look in Her Eyes. Lyrics by
Otto Harbach, music by Louis A. Hirsch.
1917.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, c1917.
Box 27, Folder 17
Like an Angel You Flew Into Everyone's
Heart
(Lindbergh). Words by Harry A. Stone and John
McLaughlin, music by Jimmy McHugh and Irving Mills.
1927.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Jack Mills, c1927.
Box 27, Folder 18
Lindberg March for Piano. By Billy
James.
1927.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Edition Supreme. New York: Jack Mills, c1927.
Box 27, Folder 19
Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.).
By Howard Johnson and Al Sherman.
1927.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Shapiro Bernstein & Co., c1927.
Box 27, Folder 20-21
Lucky Lindy! Words by L. Wolfe
Gilbert, music by Abel Baer.
1927.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
General Physical Description note: 2
copies.
Note:
New York: Leo Feist, c1927.
Box 27, Folder 22
My Aviating Summer Girl. Words and
music by Clarice Manning and Margaret Whitney.
1911.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Clarice Manning & Co., c1911.
Box 27, Folder 23
Non-Stop Corrigan. Words and Music by
Monty G. Mason.
1938.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Hollywood, CA: Mason, Elliott & Hall Music Publishers, c1938.
Box 27, Folder 24
Our Miracle Man. Words by Hugh J.
Wolfe, music by William D. Sabin.
1942.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Binghamton, NY: Hugh J. Wolfe, c1942.
Box 27, Folder 25
Satan's Angels from the Rising Sun.
Words and music by Anna Adams Beste.
1942.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Wilmington, DE: Anna Adams Beste, c1942.
Box 27, Folder 26
Silver Wings (Keep 'Em Flying). Words
by Christine Hill, music by Edward Sumner.
1941.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Los Angeles, CA: Christine Hill, c 1941.
Box 27, Folder 27
Song of the Air Force. Words and
music by Pancho Barnes.
1950.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
General Physical Description note: Inscribed to Dr. Carrurthers [sic] by Pancho Barnes.
Note:
Muroc, CA: Oro Verde Publishing Co., c1950.
Box 27, Folder 28
Spooning in My Aeroplane. Words by
Aubrey Stauffer, music by Sid and Ernie Erdman.
1911.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Chicago: Aubrey Stauffer & Co., c1911.
Box 27, Folder 29
Take Me Up With You Dearie. Words by
Junie McCree, music by Albert Von Tilzer.
1909.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: York Music Co., c1909.
Box 27, Folder 30
That Aeroplane Glide. Words and music
by Harry Israel.
1912.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Joe Morris Music Co., c1912.
Box 27, Folder 31
Wait Till You Get Them Up in the Air
Boys
. Words by Lew Brown, music by Albert Von
Tilzer.
1919.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Broadway Music Corp., c1919.
Box 27, Folder 32
When I am Flying. Waltz song from the
comic opera
In Woman's Reign. Words
by William Hooper Howells, music by Homer Grunn.
1916.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Los Angeles: Music Shop, c1916.
Box 27, Folder 33
The Yanks Are Coming Again! By Harry
Eckman.
1942.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Seattle, WA: Harry N. Eckman, c1942.
Box 27, Folder 34-48
Photographs of covers.
1894-1938
Physical Description:
15 folders.
Note:
From the originals in the Alden S. Condict Collection
Box 27, Folder 34
The Aero Naughty Girl.
1909.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
The Follies of 1909. Operatic edition. New York: Jerome H. Remick
& Co., 1909.
Box 27, Folder 35
Battle in the Sky. By J.
Luxton.
1915.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Church, Paxson and Company, 1915.
Box 27, Folder 36
Help "Uncle Sam" Win. Words by Wm. R.
Goslin, music by C. Kohlmann.
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Federalsburg, MD: Wm. R. Goslin, n.d.
Box 27, Folder 37
I Miss You Miss America. Words by W.
Wolfe Gilbert, music by Lee S. Roberts.
1916.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co., c1916.
Box 27, Folder 38
I'd Like to Run An Airship. Words by
"Happy" O'Neil, music by Oliver E. Story.
[1910].
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Boston: Tremont Music Pub. Co., [1910].
Box 27, Folder 39
The Kid Called ... Corrigan! Words by
Jean Herbert, music by Otis Spencer.
1938.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Jewel Music Pub. Co., 1938.
Box 27, Folder 40
Lucky Lindy! Words by L. Wolfe
Gilbert, music by Abel Baer.
1927.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
General Physical Description note: 2
copies.
Note:
New York: Leo Feist, c1927.
Box 27, Folder 41
Merrily We'll Float Along. Words and
Music by Thomas J. Kennedy.
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Thomas J. Kennedy, n.d.
Box 27, Folder 42
Motor King; a vocal arrangement of
this famous march and two-step. Words by Jack Drislane, music by
Henry Frantzen.
1910.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: F. B. Haviland Pub. Co., 1910.
Box 27, Folder 43
Shall We Ever be Able to Fly? Words
and music by Edgar Selden.
1894.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Spaulding & Gray, [1894].
Box 27, Folder 44
Sixty Miles an Hour. By Frederic W.
Hager.
1910.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Jos. Morris Co., 1910.
Box 27, Folder 45
Take Me Up in a Scare-o-plane. By
Charles Slavin and Harry Hemmendinger.
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Ziegfeld Music Publisher, n.d.
Box 27, Folder 46
That Aero Rag Song. Words by Wilbur
B. Cassady, music by Harry J. Lincoln.
1912.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Williamsport, PA: Vandersloot Music Pub. Co., 1912.
Box 27, Folder 47
That Aeroplane Slide. By Sam Meyers
and M. H. Jacobs.
[1912].
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Brooklyn, NY: M. F. Meyers Music Co., [1912].
Box 27, Folder 48
Up-to-Date Flying Machine [Sailing,
Sailing]
. Waltz song and chorus. Words and Music by
George C. Davis.
1904.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
New York: Theatrical Music Supply Co., 1904.
Series 9:
Sound Recordings.
1927-1977
(bulk, 1927).
Physical Description:
1 box.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by subject.
Scope and Contents note
The Sound Recordings Series contains sound recordings of interest to
aeronautical history. The oldest recordings are a set of five 78-rpm disks
from 1927: two 12-inch disks documenting Charles A. Lindbergh's visit to
Washington, DC, on June 11th, including his reception by President Coolidge
and his speech before the Press Club; and two 10-inch disks of popular songs
and dances written to celebrate Lindbergh and his accomplishments. The
series also includes four 12-inch 33 1/3-rpm recordings: a 1964 reproduction
of a short 1935 speech by Amelia Earhart; a 1962 recording by the Greenbriar
Boys of
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight; a
1962 oral history of the first 20 years of Aerojet-General Corporation; and
a recording issued in 1977 of Eddie Rickenbacker recalling his experiences
as a World War I ace.
Box 28, Item 1
Aerojet-General Corporation the first twenty
years
. Narrated by William E. Zisch.
1962.
General Physical Description note: 1 disc : 12
in., 33 1/3 rpm ; mono.
Note:
[Hollywood, CA:] Capitol Custom, 1962.
Box 28, Item 2
[Earhart, Amelia. 1935 speech.]
History
Speaks
. Narrated by James Harbur. Vol. 1.
1935.
General Physical Description note: 1 disc : 12
in., 33 1/3 rpm ; mono.
Note:
New York: Gotham Records, 1964.
Box 28, Item 3
[Earhart, Amelia] Greenbriar Boys.
The
Greenbriar Boys
.
1962.
General Physical Description note: 1 disc : 12
in., 33 1/3 rpm ; mono.
Note:
Vanguard VRS-9104. New York: Vanguard, 1962. Includes "Amelia Earhart's
Last Flight".
Box 28, Item 4
Lindbergh, Charles.
1927.
Physical Description:
5 discs.
Box 28, Item 4, Disk 1
[Songs.]
1927.
General Physical Description note: 1 disc
: 10 in., 78 rpm.
Note:
Victor 20674A-B. Camden, NJ: Victor Talking Machine Co., 1927.
Contents:
Side:
- Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.) (Howard Johnson-Al
Sherman). Vernon Dalhart, tenor with orchestra.
- Like An Angel You Flew Into Everyone's Heart (Lindbergh)
(Stone-McLaughlin-McHugh-Mills). Vaughn De Leath, contralto
with orchestra.
Box 28, Item 4, Disk 2
[Dances.]
1927.
General Physical Description note: 1 disc
: 10 in., 78 rpm.
Note:
Victor 20681A-B. Camden, NJ: Victor Talking Machine Co., 1927.
Contents:
Side:
- Lucky Lindy!-Fox Trot (Lindy el Afortunado) (L. Wolfe
Gilbert-Abel Baer). Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra,
vocal refrain by male chorus.
- America Did It Again-Fox Trot (América Triunfó Otra Vez)
(Ted Koehler-Marty Bloom). Nat Shilkret and the Victor
Orchestra; vocal refrain by male chorus.
Box 28, Item 4, Disk 3
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's address before the Press Club
at Washington, DC.
June 11, 1927.
General Physical Description note: 1 disc
: 12 in., 78 rpm.
Note:
Victor 35834. Camden, NJ: Victor Talking Machine Co., 1927.
Box 28, Item 4, Disk 4
President Coolidge welcomes Colonel Lindbergh at Washington,
DC. Parts 1-2: President Coolidge.
June 11, 1927.
General Physical Description note: 1 disc
: 12 in., 78 rpm.
Note:
Victor 35835. Camden, NJ: Victor Talking Machine Co., 1927.
Box 28, Item 4, Disk 5
President Coolidge welcomes Colonel Lindbergh at Washington,
DC. Part 3: President Coolidge / Colonel Lindbergh Responds to
President Coolidge.
June 11, 1927.
General Physical Description note: 1 disc
: 12 in., 78 rpm.
Note:
Victor 35836. Camden, NJ: Victor Talking Machine Co., 1927.
Contents:
Side:
- President Coolidge welcomes Colonel Lindbergh at
Washington, DC, June 11, 1927. Part 3: President
Coolidge.
- Colonel Lindbergh Responds to President Coolidge.
Box 28, Item 5
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker recalls his
experiences as a World War I Ace
.
1977.
General Physical Description note: 1 disc.: 12
in., 33 1/3 rpm ; mono.
Note:
Anaheim, CA: Mark 56 Records, 1977.
Series 10:
Ephemera.
1929-1982.
Physical Description:
19 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by type.
Scope and Contents note
Ephemera in the collection include airline schedules for Arvia Transportation
Co. (daily seaplane flights between Boston and New York), 1929, and for
Instone Airline (between London and Paris); airmail envelope labels, luggage
tags, and menu cards for various U.S. airlines; calling cards of Mr. John
Carruthers and Edward Filene, and a bookplate of the French aviation
historian Charles Dollfus; decals advertising the 1935 National Air Races
and the 1953 50th anniversary of powered flight; greeting cards with balloon
and airplane motifs; a newsletter of the Missionary Aviation Fellowship with
a photograph of the Stinson Voyager used by Nate Stinson in Ecuador;
postcards of California scenes with biplanes, circa 1910; prayer cards; a
list of signatories to a proclamation of the Aviation Golden Year, 1953;
1980 production notes for the 1929 motion picture Wings; a promotional flyer
for "A Tribute to Howard Hughes the Aviator", to be held at the Shrine
Auditorium, Los Angeles; a ticket for a free airplane ride over San
Francisco Bay courtesy of Frank and Freddie's restaurant; and a travel
brochure, "Zeppelin Nostalgia" and "Alpine Splendor", 1982.
Box 29, Folder 1
Advertisements.
1931-1934,
1966.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Contents:
- Advertisements for aeronautical books, 1931-1934.
- Classic car profiles, 1966.
Box 29, Folder 2
Airline schedules.
1929,
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Contents:
- Arvia Transportation Co. Daily seaplane service between New
York & Boston effective July 22, 1929.
- Instone Air Line. Daily service London-Paris. n.d.
Box 29, Folder 3
Airmail envelope labels. American Airlines.
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 29, Folder 4
Calling cards of Mr. John Carruthers and Edward A. Filene, and
bookplate of Charles Dollfus.
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 29, Folder 5
Confidential statement, Trade Information Department, Ministry
for Foreign Affairs, Denmark.
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 29, Folder 6
Decals.
1935, 1953
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Contents:
- National Air Races, Cleveland, OH, August 30-September 2,
1935.
- 50th Anniverary of Powered Flight. 1953.
Box 29, Folder 7
Greeting card with balloon motif.
circa 1900.
General Physical Description note: 1
card.
Box 29, Folder 8
Greeting cards with airplane motif.
Circa 1904-1910.
General Physical Description note: 2
cards.
Box 29, Folder 9
Luggage tags.
n.d.
Contents:
- TWA and United Airlines. 14 pieces.
- S.A. Navigazione aerea Genova. 4 copies.
Box 29, Folder 10
Menu card, United Airlines.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 7
copies.
Box 29, Folder 11
Newsletter, Missionary Aviation Fellowship, picturing the Stinson
Voyager used by Nate Saint in Ecuador.
May 1948.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 29, Folder 12
Postcards of California scenes, with biplanes.
Circa 1910.
General Physical Description note: 1 folder. 2
postcards : tinted; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Contents:
- No. 2226 - Southern Pacific R. R. running through California
orange groves. -- 2 copies.
- No. 4066 - Casa del Rey, Santa Cruz, CA.
Note:
San Francisco and Los Angeles: Cardinell-Vincent Co.
Box 29, Folder 13
Prayer cards.
Circa 1941-1945.
General Physical Description note: 2
pieces.
Box 29, Folder 14
Proclamation of aviation golden jubilee year.
1953.
General Physical Description note: 6 pages : 6
x 4 1/2 in. From an unknown publication.
Box 29, Folder 15
Production notes for
Wings (motion
picture, 1929).
August 27, 1980.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 29, Folder 16
Promotional flyer for "A Tribute to Howard Hughes, the Aviator",
to be held at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles.
June 19-20, 1982.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Note:
Produced by Larry Green, featuring Cliff Robertson, master of ceremonies,
the Smothers Brothers, and Jane Russell. Poor ticket sales caused the
cancellation of the two shows (
Los Angeles
Times
, June 22, 1982, p. B2).
Box 29, Folder 17
Ticket for free airplane ride over San Francisco Bay courtesy of
Frank and Freddie's restaurant.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 card :
3.25 x 5.5 in.
Box 29, Folder 18
Travel brochure "Zeppelin Nostalgia" and "Alpine
Splendor".
July 8-18, 1982.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 43, Folder 18
Wallpaper.
Circa 1950.
Contents:
Imperial Color, Chemical and Paper Corporation, Glens Falls,
New York. Imperial Washable Wallpaper
- Military aircraft. 3300 Run 23. 1 sheet : 22 x 19 in.
- Civilian aircraft. 7289 Run 2. 1 sheet : 21 x 19 in.
Series 11:
Memorabilia.
Circa 1880-1969.
Physical Description:
13 items.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically.
Scope and Contents note
The earliest memorabilia in the collection relate to the Wright brothers: (1)
a butterfly toy purported by Carruthers to have been given to them by their
father and to have inspired their interest in flight; and (2) a small piece
of the brothers' first hangar in Kitty Hawk, mounted on a printed "Birthday
Greetings and Souvenir of ..." card issued by Lester D. Gardner (publisher
of the early periodical
Aviation, later an
officer in the Army Air Service in World War I, and founder of the Institute
of the Aeronautical Sciences) in 1948, and inscribed from pioneer aviator
Walter R. Brookins to Dr. Carruthers. Other memorabilia include a German
autograph album containing signatures dating from September 1895 to May
1902, including those of Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin and other members of the
Zeppelin family; a pictorial souvenir of the 1910 Brussels Exhibition; a
piece of fabric from an early Curtiss airplane; two metal pieces from
Charles A. Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis"; a holograph postcard of the
"Spirit of St. Louis" issued in 1969; four bookmarks made from fabric of the
balloon "Explorer II", which attained the world's altitude record of 72,395
feet, on November 11, 1935; and two first day covers of the First Man on the
Moon U.S. 10› stamp, with postmarks "Moon Landing USA Jul 20 1969" and
"Washington. DC Sep 9 1969".
Box 30-31
Wright brothers.
Circa 1880-1948.
Physical Description:
2 items.
Box 30
Butterfly toy.
Circa 1880.
Physical Description:
1 box.
Box 31
Wood piece from Wright brothers' hangar at Kitty
Hawk.
1948.
Physical Description:
1 box.
Scope and Contents note
Birthday greetings and souvenir of ["July 15" added in hand]. Lester
Gardner, New York City, 1948. Inscribed from Walter R. Brookins to
Dr. Carruthers.
Book Collection: Aviation
TL540 .Z47A
Sammel-Album [Autograph Album], containing
signatures of Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin and other members of the Zeppelin
family.
1895-1902.
General Physical Description note: 1 volume. 4
leaves : 7.5 x 10.75 in., with signatures dated from September 1895 to
May 1902.
Material Specific Details note: Paper
acidic and extremely fragile.
Box 32
Pictorial souvenir of 1910 Brussels Exhibition with a cover in
the shape of an airplane.
1910.
Physical Description:
1 item.
Box 33
Fabric piece from historic Curtiss airplane.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 item. 4.5
x 7.5 in.
Box 34, Folder 1-2
Charles A. Lindbergh.
1927,
1969
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 34, Folder 1
2 metal pieces from the "Spirit of St. Louis".
1927.
General Physical Description note: 2
pieces.
Box 34, Folder 2
Holograph postcard of the "Spirit of St. Louis" over
Paris.
1969.
General Physical Description note: 1
postcard : holograph ; 3.5 x 6.5 in.
Note:
Minneapolis, MN: Pilots International Association, 1969.
Box 35, Folder 1
Commemorative plaque of the National Air Races and Aeronautical
Exposition, Cleveland.
August 24-September 2, 1929.
General Physical Description note: 1 metal
plaque : 2.5 x 4 in.
Box 35, Folder 2
Bookmarks made from fabric of balloon "Explorer II", which
attained the world's altitude record of 72,395 feet, on November 11,
1935.
1935.
General Physical Description note: 5 bookmarks
: 7 x 2.25 in.
Note:
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society.
Box 29, Folder 19
First day cover, First Man on the Moon U.S. 10¢
stamp.
1969.
General Physical Description note: 2 envelopes
: 4 x 9.5 in. Cancellation "First Day of Issue" with postmarks "Moon
Landing USA Jul 20 1969" and "Washington. DC Sep 9 1969".
Custodial History note
In envelope addressed to Mrs. Hugh Moore, West Covina, CA.
Series 12:
Printing Plates for A. Roy Knabenshue,
Compliments of Roy Knabenshue.
1907.
Physical Description:
4 boxes.
Arrangement note
The plates are ordered by size (from 11 x 7 inches to 3 x 4 7/8 inches). Box
36 contains a modern photocopy of A. Roy Knabenshue,
Compliments of Roy Knabenshue, courtesy of the California
History Section, California State Library, and a sheet indicating the
photographs for which plates survive, and the box in which each plate can be
found.
Scope and Contents note
This series comprises the original printing plates for 32 of the original 56
photographic illustrations in A. Roy Knabenshue,
Compliments of Roy Knabenshue (Toledo, OH: Hadley Printing
& Paper Co., [1907]), which documents the author's activities in
ballooning and in the development of the dirigible in the period between
1903 and mid-1907. One additional plate is a larger version of a published
image. The last plate is too damaged to identify; however, its measurements
do not match those of any of the published images. The plates are mounted on
wood blocks one inch thick.
The earliest photographs for which plates survive are of captive balloons at
St. Louis in August 1903 and at the St. Louis World's Fair in October 1904.
Additional surviving photographic plates show Knabenshue's airship Toledo
No. 2 landing on the rooftop of the Spitzer Building in Toledo, OH, in June
1905; at the Ohio State Fair, Columbus, OH, in September 1906; and at the
Brockton Fair, Brockton, MA, in October 1906. Other surviving photographic
plates show Knabenshue demonstrating the maneuverability of one of his
smaller dirigibles at White City amusement park, Toledo; Samuel A. King with
the balloon "Orient", circa 1906; Knabenshue's "California Airship",
constructed at Los Angeles in the winter of 1905-6; and his Passenger
Airship I, built in 1906-7, and destroyed by fire at the Iowa State Fair in
Des Moines in late August 1907.
Box 36-39
Engraved metal printing plates, mounted on wood blocks, for A.
Roy Knabenshue,
Compliments of Roy
Knabenshue
(Toledo, OH: Hadley Printing & Paper Co.,
[1907]).
1907.
General Physical Description note: 34 printing
blocks.
Series 13:
Copies of Documentary Materials in Other Repositories.
1783-1957.
Physical Description:
1 box + 1 folder.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically.
Scope and Contents note
This series contains photocopies of aeronautica, 1783-1784, from the Sir
Joseph Banks Collection in the California State Library, Sutro Branch, San
Francisco, and microfiche copies of press accounts, 1929-1957, in an
unidentified repository, of the activities of the aviators Thomas Ash,
Harold Bromley, Harold Gatty, Bennett Griffin, Harold S. Jones, Henry Jones,
James Kelly, Jimmy Mattern, and Reginald Robbins. The majority of the press
accounts date from the years 1929-1933; only the material on Gatty extends
to 1957.
Box 18, Folder 8
Aeronautica in the Sir Joseh Banks Collection, California State
Library, Sutro Branch, San Francisco.
1783-1784.
General Physical Description note: 25 sheets
(photocopies).
Box 40
Press accounts of the activities of various aviators, Unknown
repository.
1929-1957
(bulk, 1929-1933).
General Physical Description note: 5
microfiche : 4.25 x 5.75 in.
Scope and Contents note
Aviators are Thomas Ash, Harold Bromley, Harold Gatty, Bennett Griffin,
Harold S. Jones, Henry Jones, James Kelly, Jimmy Mattern, and Reginald
Robbins. The majority of the materials cover the years 1929-1933; only
the material on Gatty extends to 1957.
Series 14:
Carruthers Collection History.
1933-1982.
Physical Description:
4 folders.
Arrangement note
Ordered chronologically.
Scope and Contents note
This series contains newspaper clippings, news briefs, postcards, and other
materials relating to the history of Dr. Carruthers' aeronautical
collections and of the Institute of Aeronautical History. The series
includes materials from exhibitions at the University of Southern California
in 1933, at the Pasadena Transportation Fair in 1952, and at the Claremont
Colleges circa 1982. The series also includes letterheads of the Brookins
Lahm Wright Aeronautical Foundation and of the Alberto Santos-Dumont
Aeronautical Foundation.
Box 41, Folder 1, Box 42, Folder 3
Carruthers Collection History.
1934-1982.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 42, Folder 2
Exhibition, University of Southern California.
1933.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 41, Folder 2
Exhibition, Pasadena Transportation Fair.
1952.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 41, Folder 3
Exhibition, Claremont Colleges.
Circa 1982.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Series 15:
John F. B. Carruthers Personal Materials.
Circa 1700-1960
(bulk, 1930-1957).
Physical Description:
5 folders + 1 oversize box.
Arrangement note
Ordered alphabetically by subject.
Scope and Contents note
This series contains personal materials of Dr. Carruthers not directly
relating to aeronautics. The biographical materials consist of an interview
with Dr. Carruthers published in the December 1957 issue of
The Limb, and a negative photostat of an undated
resolution by the Board of Governors of Town Hall honoring Dr.
Carruthers.
Correspondence in the series consists of a 1958 letter from Gianni Caproni di
Taliedo concerning a book Dr. Carruthers intended to write, and letters and
other materials, 1931-1932, concerning the mural painter Violet Oakley
(1874-1961), whose work Dr. Carruthers wished to have exhibited at the
University of Southern California.
Miscellaneous materials include a copy of a poem attributed to Robert Burns,
beginning "My lord, I would not fill your chair, / Though ye be proudest
noble's heir"; a civil war envelope with the legend "Cease Viper, you bite a
file", picturing a snake with the words "Jeff Davis" coiled around a file
with the word "Union" (cf.
Georgetown University,
Roosevelt Civil War Envelopes Collection, p. 111, image 3
(http://aladinrc.wrlc.org/handle/1961/1916)
) [accessed 23 May
2011]); and a hand-colored photograph of the Minute Maid Corporation's
"World Peace" float in an unidentified Tournament of Roses parade, in
Pasadena, CA.
A small number of postcards depict the Houghton Library, Harvard; the
receiving ship at Norfolk, VA; Juan-les-Pins, Cote d'Azur, France; the
Deutsche Ostmesse in Königsberg, East Prussia; a landscape near Tromso,
Norway; and two pieces of sculpture by Danish neoclassical sculptor Bertel
Thorvaldsen (ca. 1770-1844). The series also contains 4 original prints by
Leo Katz, 1937-1941; engraved portraits of John Calvin, Galileo Galilei, and
Jesus Christ; two hand-colored maps from Herman Moll's 1711
Atlas geographus; a negative photostat of Amos
Dolittle's "Display of the United States of America", 1794; Dartmouth
College; a color reproduction of Norman Wilkinson, "A Great 'Opposed
Landing' Suvla Bay, 1915, ..."; color prints of V. Spahn's "Le chauffard",
1907, and George S. Eisenberg's 1943 painting of the
USS LaVallette; 2 copies (signed by Aristide Briand and Arthur
Henderson) of Derso & Kelen's 1930 menu card lampooning the members of
the League of Nations 11th Assembly; and a caricature of Lord Cecil, a
supplement to the
Spectator, February 21,
1931.
Box 41, Folder 4
Biographical Materials.
n.d.,
1957
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 41, Folder 5-6
Correspondence.
1930-1931,
1958.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 41, Folder 5
Letter from Gianni Caproni di Taliedo.
1958.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 41, Folder 6
Correspondence with Violet Oakley.
1930-1931.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 42, Folder 1-7
Graphics.
Circa 1700-1931.
Physical Description:
1 oversize box (7 folders).
Box 47, Folder 1, Item 1
Calvin, John.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving: 6.5 x 4.5 in. [on sheet, 8 x 6 in.].
Note:
After the engraving by René Boyvin. Upper right corner, "H. fecit".
With quote from Theodore Beza's life of Calvin, beginning "Calvinum
assidue comitata modestia vivum ..."
Box 47, Folder 1, Item 6
Cecil, Lord.
1931.
General Physical Description note: 1 print
: color ; 12.5 x 8.25 in.
Note:
Supplement to the
Spectator, February
21, 1931.
Box 47, Folder 1, Item 4
Darmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 1 print
: color ; 6 x 7.75 in.
Note:
Landmark Series No. 201.
Box 47, Folder 2
Derso, Alois, and Emery Kelen. Menu card: "Dejeuner de
l’association international des journalistes accredités auprés de la
S.D.N. XI. Assemblée" [Luncheon of the international association of
journalists accredited to the League of Nations 11th Assembly]. Les
Bergues Genève.
September 16 [1930].
General Physical Description note: 1
folder. 1 print : 15.75 x 11 in. 2 copies: (1) signed by Aristide
Briand, Arthur Henderson, and [indecipherable]; (2) signed by Arthur
Henderson.
Box 47, Folder 1, Item 3
Dolittle, Amos. "A Display of the United States of America"
[Bust of George Washington, surrounded by the seals of the United
States and the 13 original states].
1794.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving (negative photostat) : 12.5 x 10.5 in.
Box 47, Folder 3
Eisenberg, George S.
USS
LaVallette
(DD448).
Circa 1943.
General Physical Description note: 1
lithograph : color ; 18.5 x 24 in.
Note:
Original painting 1943.
Box 47, Folder 4
Galilei, Galileo. "Galileo Galileo Dal Quadro Originale
esiste in Firenze nella Galleria Poniatowscky".
Circa 1790-1820.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 18 x 13.5 in. (plate mark) (on sheet 19.25 x 15.75
in.).
Note:
Engraved by Pietro Bettelini after the painting by Passignano.
Published by Nicc. Bianchi.
Box 47, Folder 1, Item 2
[Jesus.] "Wahre Abbildung des Angesichtes unsers Herrn Iesu
Christi. Nebst einer dazu gehörigen gedruckten nachricht. Nach dem
Original gezeichnet von Kalliauer" [Portrait of Jesus Christ, drawn
by Kalliauer after the original].
Circa 1800-1820.
General Physical Description note: 1
engraving : 7.5 x 6.5 in. [on sheet 9 x 7.25 in.].
Box 47, Folder 5
Katz, Leo. Prints.
1937-1944.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 47, Folder 5, Item 1
"Is This the Meaning of Life?"
1937.
General Physical Description note: 1
print : 16 x 27.5 in. 57/60.
Box 47, Folder 5, Item 2
"Father Chronos Marches On."
Circa 1940.
General Physical Description note: 1
print : 23.5 x 16 in. Marked "39/100".
Box 47, Folder 5, Item 3
"The Fifth Horseman".
Circa 1941.
General Physical Description note: 1
print : 19 x 14 in. Marked "ED/50".
Note:
In the hand of John Carruthers: "Japanese Problem League Inc. /
300 Parkway Bldg Pasadena".
Box 47, Folder 5, Item 4
Untitled print of cloaked woman huddling.
1944.
General Physical Description note: 1
print : 18 x 14 in. Marked "Ed. 50".
Box 47, Folder 6
Moll, Herman.
Atlas geographus: or, A
compleat system of geography, ancient and modern. Containing
what is of most use in Blaeu, Varenius, Cellarius, Cluverius,
Baudrand, Brietius, Sanson, &c. ... Illustrated with about
100 new maps, done from the latest observations ...
[London] Printed by John Nutt; and sold by Benjamin Barker and
Charles King in Westminster Hall; Benjamin Tooke at the
Middle-Temple Gate; William Taylor at the ship in Pater-Noster-Row;
Henry Clements at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard; Richard
Parker and Ralph Smith under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange; and
John Morphew near Stationers-Hall.
1711.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
General Physical Description note: 1 maps
: hand-colored ; 8.5 x 12.25 in.
Scope and Contents note
- Spain and Portugal. [Vol. 1] Page 285.
- Sweden and Norway. [Vol. 1] Page 267.
Box 47, Folder 7
Spahn, V. "Le chauffard".
Circa 1907.
General Physical Description note: 1 print
: color ; 15 x 22.5 in.
Note:
Published Paris: Estampes Nilsson.
Box 47, Folder 1, Item 5
Wilkinson, Norman. "A Great 'Opposed Landing' Suvla Bay,
1915; The Welsh Territorials' Casualty Clearing Station, 'A'
Beach".
1915.
General Physical Description note: 1 print
: color ; 6.25 x 9.5 in.
Note:
Reproduced from Norman Wilkinson,
The
Dardanelles; Colour Sketches from Gallipoli
(London:
Longmans, Green & Co, 1915).
Box 41, Folder 7
Personal.
Circa 1860-1950.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
Box 41, Folder 8
Postcards.
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 folder.
