Aerospace oral history project, 2005-2020

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Summary

Abstract:
The aerospace oral history project consists of oral histories in PDF format and provides a range of perspectives related to the aerospace industry in Southern California.
Extent:
0.0313 Gigabytes
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Aerospace oral history project, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The aerospace oral history project consists of 61 oral histories in PDF format and provides a range of perspectives related to the aerospace industry in Southern California. Interview subjects were selected to provide a range of perspectives on the aerospace industry, from senior corporate leaders to design engineers, manufacturing engineers, major airframe manufacturers, think tanks, smaller suppliers, and both military and civilian programs. Most of the interviews cover the period from World War II and the Cold War up to the present, although several interviews include memories of the 1920s and 1930s. The transcripts reflect guided oral histories conducted by professional historians; interviews have been transcribed for clarity, and reviewed for accuracy by the interviewee before being entered into the catalog. Some interviewees were interviewed multiple times.

The oral history transcripts are available on thein PDF format only. The collection is ongoing and new oral histories will be added to the collection as they are completed. Because some of original audio files included off-the-record discussions, the original audio files are not accessible to researchers.

Biographical / historical:

These oral histories were conducted under the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. The project, which started in 2005 and is still ongoing, is documenting the history of the Southern California aerospace industry.

Acquisition information:
Acquired from interviewees, 2005-2020.
Processing information:

Finding aid created by Gina C Giang in February 2019. Maggie Hughes added 12 oral histories in May and October 2020.

Arrangement:

Interviews are listed alphabetically by interviewee last name. The PDFs in the Huntington Digital Library can be sorted a number of ways.

Physical facet:
(61 digital files)
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Aeronautical engineers -- California, Southern -- History
Aerospace engineering -- California, Southern -- History
Aerospace engineers -- California, Southern -- History
Aerospace industries -- California, Southern -- History -- 20th century
Aircraft industry -- California, Southern
Airplanes -- Design and construction
Airplanes, Military
Fighter planes
Guided missile industries
Jet planes, Military
Reconnaissance aircraft
Stealth aircraft
Supersonic planes
Test pilots
Women air pilots -- United States
Women aircraft industry employees
Women in aeronautics
Women in engineering
Names:
Aerospace Corporation
California Institute of Technology
Douglas Aircraft Company
Hughes Aircraft Company
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Rand Corporation
Rockwell International
Axtell, James
Ayres, David
Baker, Andrew
Beall, Donald R.
Brown, Alan
Bullock, Frank E.
Cashen, John
Clauser, Francis H.
Cleven, Curtis
Cohen, Clarence Budd
Currie, Malcom R.
Davis, Allen V. C. (Allen Van Cleve)
Duffendack, Jack C.
Dyson, Ken
Friedman, Louis
Gasich, W.E. (Welko E.), 1922-
Gibb, Ron
Gordon, Dale, 1955-
Graham, Lloyd
Harris, Vernon, 1926-
Hicks, Donald A.
Huben, Michael Gerald (Jerry)
Husmann, Richard, 1927-
Janssen, Volker, (Historian)
Johnson, Betty
Jones, Thomas V., 1920-2014
Jonkey, Les, 1918-
Karafantis, Layne
Katz, Elliott
Keville, Jesse F.
Kibble, Larry
Kinnu, James
Kresa, Kent
Lackman, Les
Loschke, Robert
MacDonald, Forrest
Mitzner, Kenneth
Morgenfeld, Thomas, 1943-
Mullin, Sherman N.
Murphy, Robert
Namba, Wataru, 1927-
Nelson, Donn, 1932-
Nichols, Donald L., 1932-
Noller, Eugene, 1930-
Paulikas, George, 1936-
Pidhayny, Denny, 1919-
Ragsdale, James W.
Rosen, Harold, 1926-2017
Smith, Steven R., 1928-
Stacey, Alvin
Szep, Joseph
Waaland, Irving
Westwick, Peter J.
Wilson, E. Milton
Zadorozny, Edward
Zoller, Curt J., 1920-2014
Places:
Oral histories (document genres) -- California

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.

Terms of access:

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Aerospace oral history project, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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