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Title: Lockheed Corporation, Aero Club, and National Aeronautic Association collection
Inclusive Dates: 1896-1995
Bulk Dates: 1943-1980
Collection Number: mssLockheed
Extent:
46 boxes (18.7 linear feet)
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Fax: (626) 449-3477
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: Archival material documenting the history of the Lockheed Corporation as well as the activities of the Aero Club of Southern
California and the National Aeronautic Association.
Language of Material: The material is in English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department.
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 permission rests with the researcher.
[Identification of Item], Lockheed Corporation, Aero Club, and National Aeronautic Association collection, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Gift of California State Library, March 2012.
Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company; it was founded in 1926 by Allan Lockheed. The company merged with
Martin Marietta in March 1995 to become Lockheed Martin Corporation. The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) is the oldest
aviation organization in the United States. The Aero Club of Southern California is the local chapter of the NAA.
The first series contains manuals (the majority of those are for different models of aircraft), reports, directories, newsletters,
publications and photographs related to the Lockheed Corporation. Many of the manuals are published by the Curtiss-Wright
Corporation and the Wright Company. There are photographs of: Harvey C. Christen, Amelia Earhart, Clarence L. Johnson and
the Lockheed Baseball team among others. There are also three photograph albums mostly containing photographs of various aircraft
and Lockheed employees; these also contain photographs of Charles Lindbergh, Jimmy Doolittle and other pilots.
The second series contains documents, meeting minutes, journals, magazines, newspaper clippings, and photographs all related
to three organizations: Aero Club, National Aeronautic Association and International Aeronautic Federation (FAI). The series
also contains information about membership, award ceremonies, conferences and other events (such as the Gordon Bennett Balloon
Race). There are magazines and publications related to several topics including: aviation, ballooning, parachuting and sport
aerobatics.
The third series includes VHS tapes and audiocassettes related mostly to the Lockheed Corporation. There are also several
volumes of books, the majority of which deal with aviation (some of which came from Lockheed). There are six objects including
two awards.
Much of the collection was previously owned by various individuals: Violet Ritz-Rigby, former president of the Aero Club of
Southern California and member of the FAI Public Relations Committee; Carol L. Osborne, aviation collector; and Ed Lund and
Ann Voigt, Lockheed employees.
Arrangement
Collection is arranged in the following manner: Lockheed Corporation (Boxes 1-36); Aero Club and National Aeronautic Association
(Boxes 37-40); and Audiovisual, Objects and Printed Books (Boxes 41-46).
Christen, Harvey C., 1910-1993
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 -- Photographs
Johnson, Clarence L., 1910-1990
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 -- Photographs
Aero Club of Southern California
Air pilots -- Photographs
Air pilots -- United States
Airplanes -- Design and construction
Airplanes -- Photographs
Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Wright Aeronautical Division
International Aeronautic Federation
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Lockheed Corporation
Lockheed Martin
National Aeronautic Association (U.S.)
Wright Company
Aeronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Aeronautics -- United States -- Societies, etc. -- History
Aerospace industries -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Ballooning
Parachuting
Annual reports
Audiovisual materials
Directories
Ephemera
Letters (correspondence)
Manuals (instructional materials)
Minutes (administrative records)
Newsletters
Photograph albums
Photographs
Telephone directories