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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Robert J. Clark collection on aeronautical history
Creator:
Clark, Robert
Identifier/Call Number: 7027
Physical Description:
60.479 Linear Feet
51 boxes
Date (bulk): 1940s-1990s
Abstract: This collection consists of a scrapbooks containing photographs, articles, and clippings about aircraft and flying machines
from around the world. These materials were collected by aircraft designer Robert J. Clark (1919-2009).
Language of Material:
English.
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Robert J. Clark (1919-2009) was an American aircraft designer at North American Aviation (NAA) and Northrop. Clark was the
lead designer of the XAJ Bomber and named a delegate to NATO.
This collection consists of a scrapbook containing photographs, articles, and clippings about aircraft and flying machines
from around the world. It includes binders of aircraft pictures and drawings, aircraft from major United States aircraft companies,
as well as smaller builders and foreign builders, early aviation (pre-1914), famous flights, World War I, military aircraft
development, postcards, a set of "Profile Publications," color prints, calendars, photographs, and posters. These materials
were collected by aircraft designer Robert J. Clark (1919-2009).
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Marjorie A. Clark, 2009.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Robert J. Clark collection on aeronautical history, Collection no. 7027, Regional History Collection,
Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
This collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Aircraft -- Archival resources
Aircraft industry -- Photographs
Aeronautics -- History -- Archival resources
Scrapbooks
Clippings (information artifacts)
Photographs
Drawings
Postcards
Calendars
Posters
Clark, Robert -- Archives