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Title: Joseph S. Marriott papers
Dates: 1933-1963
Collection number: H1984.2
Creator:
Marriott, Joseph S., 1895-1984
Collection Size:
1 archives half-carton
(0.2 linear foot)
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd
Library.
Claremont, CA 91711
Abstract: Writings and speeches, photographs, correspondence, and
printed matter, 1933-1963, relating to Joseph S. Marriott's career in the Civil
Aeronautics Administration and its predecessor, the Bureau of Air Commerce, with
special reference to the states of California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Utah.
Physical location: Please consult repository.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
Collection open for research.
All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Special
Collections.
[Identification of item], Joseph S. Marriott papers. Special Collections,
Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont University Consortium.
Gift of Joseph S. Marriott's widow, 1984.
Collection processed by Michael P. Palmer, June 2004; revised by Michael P. Palmer,
May 2010.
Joseph S. Marriott was born on a farm near Waterford, Stanislaus County, California,
on July 5, 1895. He graduated from Stanford University in 1917, with a B.A. in
Analytical Chemistry. After attending Aviation Ground School at the University of
California, Berkeley, and receiving his flight training at Rockwell Field, San
Diego, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the aviation section of the Army
Signal Corps in December 1917. He served as a flight instructor at Park Field,
Millington, Tennessee. For a brief time after the war he flew barnstorming
exhibitions with the Memphis Aerial Company. At the end of 1920, he returned to
California, received a teaching credential, and taught high school chemistry and
physics for five years in Marin County. During this period he retained his
affiliation with the Army Reserve. In 1927, he obtained a position with the newly
established Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce. The Aeronautics Branch
developed into the Bureau of Air Commerce, and became the Civil Aeronautics
Administration (CAA) in 1938, and the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) in 1958. Except
for service as the War Department member on the Inter-Departmental Air Traffic
Control Board during World War II, Marriott remained with the Commerce Department
until his retirement in 1956. During the 1930's he served as Assistant Chief, then
Chief of Inspection Service, for the Bureau of Air Commerce. Upon leaving active
military service in 1946, he became CAA regional manager for the five southwestern
states; when the CAA was reorganized several years later his authority was extended
to cover the 11 western states. A lieutenant colonel by 1936, he was promoted to
colonel in 1943, and to brigadier general between 1952 and 1954. He died in Vista,
California, in March 1984.
Source: Joseph S. Marriott. Safety Regulations and Air Traffic Control. Interview
with John B. Rae, December 27, 1962. Claremont, Calif.: Oral History Program,
Claremont Graduate School, 1962.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of writings and speeches, photographs, correspondence, and
printed matter, 1933-1963, relating to Joseph S. Marriott's career in the Civil
Aeronautics Administration and its predecessor, the Bureau of Air Commerce, with
special reference to the states of California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Utah. The papers
comprise a single series, arranged by function: 1) writings and speeches; 2)
photographs; 3) correspondence; 4) printed matter. General Marriott's writings and
speeches primarily concern government interest in, and regulation of, civil
aviation, particularly in the 1920's and 1930's. The photographs relate to air
navigation aids, primarily radio towers and beacons, 1946-1956, in the western
states (in particular, California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Utah) that General Marriott
supervised as CAA Regional Manager. The correspondence consists of a carbon copy of
a humorous letter from 1947, signed by A. O. Oeland, purportedly relating to his
experiences as a student pilot, and an exchange in 1958 between Marriott and
Jacqueline Cochran Odlum concerning a proposed visit by Marriott to the Odlum ranch.
The printed materials consist of an undated, unsigned, carbon copy single sheet,
"... And God Created Louisiana", and a 1955 proposal for a Colonel Joseph S.
Marriott Unit Achievement Award to be presented by the Air Reserve Association.
Joseph S. Marriott collection, Bates Aeronautics, Sprague - 4th floor, Harvey Mudd College campus. For more information,
contact: spcoll@cuc.claremont.edu.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Aeronautics, Commercial
Air traffic control
Airport control towers
Marriott, Joseph S., 1895-1984
Navigation (Aeronautics)
Photographs
United States. Civil Aeronautics
Administration