Finding Aid for the USC Library of Aeronautical History Earl X. Brown collection on aviation 0064
Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
USC Libraries Special Collections
2022 November
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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: USC Library of Aeronautical History Earl X. Brown collection on aviation
Creator:
Brown, Earl X.
Identifier/Call Number: 0064
Physical Description:
2.25 Linear Feet
2 boxes
Date (bulk): 1911-1945
Date: 1966
Abstract: This collection consists of scrapbooks and clippings chronicling the early innovations of manned flight compiled by Earl X.
Brown.
Language of Material:
English.
Container: 1
Container: 2
Earl X. Brown was a World War I veteran who built aircraft for Mercury Aircraft Co. and North American Aviation Inc. in 1919.
He then worked for the Earl Daugherty School of Aviation in 1921.
This collection consists of scrapbooks and clippings chronicling the early innovations of manned flight compiled by Earl X.
Brown. Included are two scrapbooks from Brown's service in World War I in the 270th Aero Squadron, and one scrapbook of various
photographs of outings with other aviation enthusiasts, plane crashes, stunt shows, and war plans. Also represented in the
collection are newspaper clippings related to aviation as well as two Richfield Airplanes pamphlets and a Miterite compound
angle calculator tool.
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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 Earl X. Brown.
[Box/folder# or item name], USC Library of Aeronautical History Earl X. Brown collection on aviation, Collection no. 0064,
Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
The collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Aeronautics
Aeronautics -- History -- Archival resources
Aeronautics, Military -- Archival resources
Air pilots -- California -- Photographs
Air pilots, Military -- California -- 20th century -- Photographs
Aircraft accidents -- Archival resources
Aircraft industry -- Photographs
Clippings
Photographs
Realia
Scrapbooks
World War, 1914-1918 -- Archival resources
Brown, Earl X. -- Archives