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Box 1 of 2

 

Folder 1 – Newspaper Clippings & Press Releases

Physical Description: 1. S.C. Publisher Earns Award, article about Pan American Navigation Service Inc. with unknown author (no date). 2. John Dohm to Address Flying Club, article about John Dohm’s visit to the Icarian Flying Club with unknown author (no date). 3. How Time Flies, excerpt celebrating one of John Dohm’s flights (unknown author), November 17, 1982. 4. Flying Club to Hear Pole Pilot, article about one of John Dohm’s flights (unknown author), August 12, 1959. 5. How Time Flies, excerpt celebrating on of John Dohm’s flights (unknown author), November 17, 1982. 6. “Views in the Valley”, news column about John Dohm, by Charles Page, August 10, 1959. 7. Plane Built in Santa Monica Claims Record, article about the PacAero Learstar’s transpolar flight to Germany (no author or date). 8. Plane Built in Santa Monica Claims Record, article about the PacAero Learstar’s transpolar flight to Germany (no author or date). 9. Entertains New Mexico Guest, photograph of Rachel Zweng, August 3, 1934. 10. “Lear’s L-102 Autopilot Flies First Twin-Engine Plane on Transpolar Route”, news release from Lear Incorporated, November 12, 1957. 11. Green “Press” ribbon pin. 12. Three copies of “PacAero Learstar Sets Business Aircraft Record” from Charlotte De Armond for Pacific Airmotive Corporation.
 

Folder 2 – Magazine Articles

Physical Description: Check Flight” packet of articles about the PacAero Learstar, July 1958. 2. “Learstars” advertisement for the PacAero Learstar, January 1958. 3. First Learstar Makes Transpolar Flight, by Lloyd Walker, April 1958. 4. PacAero Learstar Sets Aircraft Record, from Aero Trading Post, April 1958. 5. “First business plane flies polar route with B.F. Goodrich De-Icers” advertisement for B.F. Goodrich De-Icers, April 21, 1958.
 

Folder 3 – Manuscripts

Physical Description: 1. Oliver Pestle and the Bloody Angels, by John Dohm (no date). 2. Twenty Years with the Wrong Adverb, by John Dohm with edits in pencil (no date). 3. Short story about an aircraft workers’ strike under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration with edits (no date). 4. “First Broadcast: Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, February 11, 1940”, by John Dohm, 1941. 5. The Affair of the Mammounia, by John Dohm with edits in pencil (no date). 6. A Season in Morocco, by John Dohm (no date). 7. An Introduction to Henry George, by John Dohm with edits in pencil (no date). 8. A Season in Morocco, by John Dohm with edits in pencil and pen (no date). 9. Evening Song, by John Dohm with pencil edits and an address (no date). 10. A Daydream poem by unknown author (no date).
 

Folder 4 – Flight Map/Plans

Physical Description: 1. Flight plan and log from Frobisher to Dusseldorf, November 8, 1957. 2. Flight plan and log from “SMO” to “CYFB”, November 8, 1957. 3. Aircraft position chart for the North Atlantic used for trip from Frobisher Bay to Dusseldorf, November 8, 1957. 4. U.S. Air Force aeronautical planning chart used for trip from Santa Monica to Frobisher Bay, November 8, 1957.
 

Folder 5 – Photographs

Physical Description: Folder contains twenty photographs of a Learstar “D-COCA” plane, with a letter from Harry Graybill of Lear, Inc., c. 1956. 1. Letter to John Dohm from Harry G. Graybill describing the photographs, July 24, 1956 (signed in ink).
 

Box 2 of 2 (Oversized)

Physical Description: 1. One oversized photographic portrait of John Dohm. 2. One small photo album that belonged to Rachel Zweng Dohm.
 

Scrapbooks

Physical Description: Two large scrapbooks that belonged to Charles A. Zweng containing correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
 

Certificate

Physical Description: One “shell back” certificate issued to John Dohm, Nov. 21, 1942.