Phillip H. Ault Aviation Collection
Michael P. Palmer
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
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Claremont, CA 91711
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Phillip H. Ault Aviation Collection
Dates: 1898-1992 and undated
Collection number: H.Mss.0046
Creator:
Ault, Phillip H.
Extent:
1.4 Linear Feet
(1 document box, 1 flat box)
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, The Claremont
Colleges Library, Claremont, CA 91711.
Abstract: Photographs of Charles
Lindbergh and the
Spirit of St. Louis in France at the
conclusion of his 1927 trans-Atlantic flight, including photographs of Lindbergh with other
famous aviators and of the dismantling of the Spirit of St. Louis for inspection and
shipment back to the United States. Also materials, primarily reproductions of prints,
drawings, and photographs documenting the history of aviation from 1783 to 1978, collected
by Ault to illustrate his book
By the Seat of Their Pants,
published in 1978. These materials emphasize in particular the history of aviation in the
United States from 1900 to 1950, including the Wright brothers, barnstormers, the first
flight around the world in 1924, early air mail carriers, Charles Lindbergh, the Dole Derby
of 1927, Amelia Earhart, and Douglas "Wrong-Way" Corrigan.
Physical Location: Please consult repository.
Language of Material:
Languages represented in the collection: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Special
Collections.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Phillip H. Ault Aviation Collection (H.Mss.0046). Special
Collections and Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library, The Claremont Colleges Services,
Claremont, CA.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Series 1 (Lindbergh Photographs), gift to the Aviation Special Collection, Sprague Library,
by Phillip H. Ault, 1992. Series 2 (Photographs for
By the Seat of
Their Pants
), gift to the Aviation Special Collection, Sprague Library, by Phillip
H. Ault, circa 1995.
Accruals
No additions to the collection are anticipated.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Michael P. Palmer, June 2004.
Biography / Administrative History
Phillip Halliday Ault was born in Maywood, Illinois, on April 26, 1914. He graduated from
DePauw University in 1935. From 1935 to 1937, he was a reporter for the
LaGrange (Illinois) Citizen. In 1938, he became a corresponding
editor for UPI, serving in Chicago, New York City, Iceland, North Africa, and London, where
he was bureau chief in 1944-1945. In 1948, he left UPI to become assistant managing editor
and director of the editorial page for the Times-Mirror Company in Los Angeles. From 1948 to
1957, he was editorial page editor of the
Los Angeles
Mirror-News
, and from 1958-1968, executive editor and vice president of Associated
Desert Newspapers, in Palm Springs. In 1968, he returned to the Midwest as associate editor
of the
South Bend (Indiana) Tribune. He retired in 1979, and
died in Sun City West, Arizona, on July 2, 2001.
In addition to his wire service and newspaper work, Ault was a prolific writer, authoring
or co-authoring 18 books:
Springboard to Berlin (1943);
This is the Desert (1959);
Reporting
the News
(1959, coauthor);
News Around the Clock
(1960);
Introduction to Mass Communications (1960,
co-author), used as a textbook in over 400 colleges and universities;
How to Live in California (1961);
Home Book of Western
Humor
(1967);
Wonders of the Mosquito World (1970);
These Are the Great Lakes (1972);
Wires West (1974);
All Aboard (1976);
By the Seat of Their Pants (1978);
Perspectives on Mass Communications (1982, co-author); Whistles Round the Bend
(1982);
Reporting and Writing the News (1983, co-author);
Public Relations: Strategies and Tactics (1986, co-author);
Santa Maria Historical Photo Album (1987). Three of these
books were Junior Literary Guild selections, and All Aboard received a Spur from the Western
Writers of America for the best juvenile book of 1976. Ault also contributed articles to the
Saturday Evening Post,
American
Heritage
,
American Legion,
Argosy,
Phil Delta Kappan,
The Scroll,
True West, and
Michiana.
Ault was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 1998, and into the DePauw
University Media Wall of Fame in October 2001.
Source:
Who Was Who in America, 14 (New Providence, NJ:
Marquis Who's Who, c2002), 11.
Scope and Contents of Collection
The collection comprises photographs and other materials relating to the history of
aviation from the first balloon ascent in 1783 to 1978. It consists of two distinct
series:
The first series is a collection of photographs and other materials concerning the
reception of Charles Lindbergh upon his arrival in France at the conclusion of his 1927
trans-Atlantic flight. Those photographs documenting the dismantling, for inspection and
shipping back to the United States, of the
Spirit of St.
Louis
, are of particular interest.
The second series consists of materials collected by Phillip Ault to illustrate his book
By the Seat of Their Pants, published in 1978. While the
book covers the period 1783-1978, it concentrates on the history of aviation in the United
States from 1900 to 1950, with special emphasis on the Wright brothers, barnstormers, the
first flight around the world in 1924, early air mail carriers, Charles Lindbergh, the Dole
Derby of 1927, Amelia Earhart, and Douglas "Wrong-Way" Corrigan. Although the great majority
of the photographs are copies of originals held elsewhere, the collection contains four
original photographs from the period 1910-1920. Ault makes particularly extensive use of the
collections of Lawrence Bell, founder of Bell Aircraft, one of the finest private
collections of material on the early history of aviation in the United States, but one that
is under-utilized by aviation historians.
Organization and Arrangement
This collection has been organized into the following series:
- Series 1: Lindbergh Photographs, 1927-1992
- Series 2: Photographs and other materials to illustrate
By the Seat of Their
Pants
, 1898-1977 and undated
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library’s online public access catalog.
Subject Terms
Aeronautical sports -- History
Aeronautics -- History
Aeronautics -- History -- Juvenile literature
Air mail service -- United States
Airplane racing -- History
Ault, Phillip H.
Corrigan, Douglas
Earhart, Amelia
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
Spirit of St. Louis (Airplane)
Genre and Form of Materials
Drawing
Prints
Series 1:
Lindbergh Photographs
1927-1992
Scope and Contents
Thirteen photographs and accompanying documentation relating to Charles A. Lindbergh's
stay in Paris after his 1927 trans-Atlantic flight. The photographs include several
formal group photographs of Lindbergh with prominent European aviators such as Bleriot
and Herrick; the remaining photographs document the dismantling, for inspection and
shipping back to the United States, of the "Spirit of St. Louis" by the Vacuum Oil Co.
The photographs appear to be additional prints of photographs appearing in the book
Le premier vol de New York-Paris par le colonel Ch. A.
Lindbergh
([Paris:] A. J. Ganon Relieur, 1927), a bound folio volume of 75
photographs mounted on card stock. Thirteen copies of the volume were produced and
distributed by the Vacuum Oil Co., which had sponsored Lindbergh's flight. One of these
volumes was given to Henry Lowe Brownback by Henri Pagny, an official of the Vacuum Oil
Co. in France. The correspondence in this series concerns the gift of this copy by Mrs.
Mina Brownback Hayn, through the offices of Floyd Markham, to the Ryan Aeronautical
Library and the San Diego Aerospace Museum in 1983.
Ault's possession of this correspondence strongly suggests that the photographs were
also originally in the possession of Henry Lowe Brownback, and passed, most probably as
duplicates, to Ault from Mina Brownback Hayn through Floyd Markham.
Ault received a reproduction of each photograph at the time of his gift, and the
collection includes a copy negative of each photograph.
The material is arranged as follows: correspondence, photographs (further arranged by
the number marked on the back of each photograph), and copy negatives.
Box 1, Folder 2
Photographs (1 of 3)
1927
Box 1, Folder 2, Item 1
Mechanics dismantling the engine of the
Spirit of St.
Louis
, Paris
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 7 x 9.5 in. Marked on the back: "1?", negative 5379.
Box 1, Folder 2, Item 2
Mechanics draining the oil from the engine of the "Spirit of St. Louis",
Paris
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 9.5 x 7 in. Marked on the back: "3?"; negative 5380.
Box 1, Folder 2, Item 3
H. Pagny (L), Engineer in charge of the Aviation Division of the Vacuum Oil
Company S.A.F., and Capt. Cartier (R) of the 34th Air Regiment examining the oil
filter of the
Spirit of St. Louis
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 7 x 9.5 in. Marked on the back: "7?"; negative 5374.
Box 1, Folder 2, Item 4
H. Pagny (L), Engineer in charge of the Aviation Division of the Vacuum Oil
Company S.A.F., and Capt. Cartier (R) of the 34th Air Regiment examining the oil
filter of the
Spirit of St. Louis
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 7 x 9.5 in. Marked on the back: "8?"; negative 5373.
Box 1, Folder 3
Photographs (2 of 3)
1927
Box 1, Folder 3, Item 1
Charles A. Lindbergh (center), watching the dismantling of the engine of
the
Spirit of St. Louis, Paris
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 7 x 9.5 in. Marked on the back: "9?"; negative 5375.
Box 1, Folder 3, Item 2
View of the fuselage of the
Spirit of St.
Louis
after removal of the fabric, Paris
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 7 x 9.5 in. Marked on the back: "10?"; negative 5378.
Box 1, Folder 3, Item 3
View of the cockpit and instrument panel of the
Spirit of St. Louis after removal of the fuselage fabric,
Paris
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 9.5 x 7 in. Marked on the back: "11?"; negative 5377.
Box 1, Folder 3, Item 4
View of the instrument panel of the
Spirit of St.
Louis
after removal of the fuselage fabric, Paris
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 7 x 9.5 in. Marked on the back: "12?"; negative 5376.
Box 1, Folder 4
Photographs (3 of 3)
1927
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 1
(L to R) Charles A. Lindbergh, Louis Bleriot, Herrick, Paris
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 7 x 9.5 in. Marked on the back: "no 80"; negative 5371.
Note
Individuals identified by William Wagner, Ryan Aeronautical Library.
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 2
Group photograph, standing: Charles A. Lindbergh (front row, 3rd from
left); Herrick (front row, 2nd from left); Louis Bleriot (front row, extreme right),
Paris
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 7 x 9.5 in. Marked on the back: "no 82"; stamped on back: "Agence Rol";
negative 5370.
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 3
Group photograph, seated and standing: Charles A. Lindbergh (front row, 2nd
from right)
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 7 x 9.5 in. Marked on the back: "no 88"; stamped on back:"Agence Rol";
negative 5369.
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 4
Group photograph: 8 men and 3 women, all unidentified, pose on airfield,
Paris
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 7 x 9.5 in. Marked on back: negative 5368.
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 5
Group of men standing on airfield, man on extreme right in flight suit,
immediately prior or after Charles A. Lindbergh's landing, Paris
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph : 7 x 9.5 in. Marked on back: negative 5372.
Box 1, Folder 5
Copy negatives
circa 1992
Note
One negative of each print is included.
Series 2:
Photographs and other materials to illustrate
By the
Seat of Their Pants
1898-1977 and undated
Scope and Contents
Photographs and other materials used to illustrate Phillip H. Ault,
By the Seat of Their Pants; The Story of Early Aviation (New
York: Dodd, Mead, c1978). The bulk of the material concerns the history of aviation in
the United States from 1900 to 1950, with special emphasis on the Wright brothers,
barnstormers, the first flight around the world in 1924, early air mail carriers,
Charles Lindbergh, the Dole Derby of 1927, Amelia Earhart, and Douglas "Wrong-Way"
Corrigan.
The material consists primarily of photographic reproductions, most prepared between
1960 and 1977. A substantial number of these were obtained from the David D. Hatfield
Collection, American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University (now in the Museum of
Flight in Seattle), and in the Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana (formerly Bell Aircraft
Corporation, Buffalo, New York; now Lawrence D. Bell Aircraft Museum, Mentone).
Additional photographs and other materials were obtained from American Airlines; the
Aviation Hall of Fame, Dayton, Ohio; British Airways; Flint Journal, Flint, Michigan;
General Dynamics, Convair Division [materials now in the San Diego Aerospace Museum];
Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan; Honolulu Advertiser; Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.; Lockheed Aircraft Corporation; Northern Indiana Historical Society;
Pan American World Airways; Santa Ana Register, Santa Ana, California; Ryan Aeronautical
Library [now part of the San Diego Aerospace Museum], San Diego, California; Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C.; South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana; Star Bulletin,
Honolulu, Hawaii; and United Airlines. The series includes copies of nine
photographs--including seven not published in Ault's work--from Amelia Earhart's
20 Hours 40 Minutes (1928).
The series contains four original photographs from the following sources:
1. Ault Photo Studio - Box 1, Folder 12, Item 2 2. Lloyd S. Taylor - Box 1, Folder 9,
Items 3-4; Box 1, Folder 10, Item 4
It is not known whether there was any relationship between Phillip H. Ault and the Ault
Photo Studio.
Other materials include two maps specially drawn for Ault's book, as well as
biographical sketches, each with a reproduction of a pencil portrait sketch by Milton
Caniff, of 15 members of the Aviation Hall of Fame, Dayton, Ohio.
Organization and Arrangement
The material is arranged by format, as follows: photographs used by Ault in his book;
photographs not used by Ault in his book; photographic negatives; maps; and printed
matter. Within each format, the material is further arranged by the order in which it
appears in Ault's book. Oversize material has been transferred to Box 2, where it is
arranged in the same order. The
boldface numbers in []
brackets before each entry give the illustration number and the number of the page of
By the Seat of Their Pants on which the photograph is
reproduced, as indicated on the back of each photograph in the form "#..., p. ..."
Box 1, Folder 6
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(1 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 6, Item 1
[1/10] Amelia Earhart
1928
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 6, Item 2
[3/14] Official Program of the Air Rodeo at
Glendale Airport
1923 March 17
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 6, Item 3
[4/17] Seaplane
Friendship taking off
1928 June
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
From Amelia Earhart,
20 Hours 40 Minutes (1928), p.
132.
Box 1, Folder 6, Item 4
[5/19]. View from the passenger liner
America of Amelia Earhart 'bombing' the ship with messages
dropped in paper bags weighted with oranges from her seaplane
Friendship
1928 June
Physical Description: 1 photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10
in. [image 6.75 x 4.5 in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: U.S. Shipping Board. From Amelia Earhart,
20 Hours
40 Minutes
(1928), p. 193.
Box 1, Folder 6, Item 5
[6/19] Passenger liner
America photographed by Amelia Earhart through the open hatch in the
bottom of
Friendship's fuselage
1928 June
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. [image 6.25 x 10 in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
From Amelia Earhart,
20 Hours 40 Minutes (1928), p.
125.
Box 1, Folder 7
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(2 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 7, Item 1
[8/27] Print of the first human ascent in a
hydrogen balloon by Professor Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Noel Robert, from
the garden of the Tuilleries, Paris, December 1, 1783
undated
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 7, Item 2
[11/29] Wright Brothers family home, Dayton,
Ohio [now in the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan]
circa 1975
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan.
Box 1, Folder 7, Item 3
[12/29] Wright Brothers cycle shop, Dayton, Ohio
[now in the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan]
circa 1975
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w; ; 10 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan.
Box 1, Folder 7, Item 4
[14/30] First powered flight: Wright brothers'
plane leaves the ground at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with Orville at the controls
and Wilbur running alongside
1903 December
17
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 7, Item 5
[19/35] Would-be aviators built airplanes in
barns and stables during the years following the Wright brothers' historic flight.
This one crashed on its first takeoff attempt and never flew
undated
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in. Header: "Among the Maker[s]".
Annotated on back, in pencil: "Sun Mag Flyers 'F'". Later annotation, by Iris
Critchell: "A Henry Farman III model".
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Northern Indiana Historical Society.
Box 1, Folder 8
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(3 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 8, Item 1
[20/35] French aviator Rene Simon toured the
Midwest with his Bleriot monoplane, giving exhibition flights
1911
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in. Annotated on back: "Sun Mag Flyers
'D'".
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Northern Indiana Historical Society.
Box 1, Folder 8, Item 2
[22/38] Lawrence Bell (standing, L) and Grover
Bell (seated, R) with the plane they jointly owned
1912
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 8, Item 3
[24/41] Lincoln Beachey in Curtiss biplane races
Barney Oldfield in automobile
circa
1910-1913
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 8, Item 4
[25/43] Christening of the biplane in which
Lincoln Beachey was killed at San Francisco on March 14, 1915
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Stamped: Bell Aircraft Corporation
Photographic Department.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 8, Item 5
[33/51] Early Farman biplane on the beach in
California
circa 1910
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. [image 6 x 9 in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Note
Identification per Iris Critchell.
Box 1, Folder 9
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(4 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 9, Item 1
[34/54 (recte 53)] Stuntman hanging from lower
wing section of biplane
circa 1920
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: General Dynamics, Convair Division.
Box 1, Folder 9, Item 2
[35/56 (recte 54)] Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" in a
field near South Bend, Indiana
1920 June
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. [image 3.25 x 4.25 in.]. Annotated
on back: "Sun Mag Flyers 'G'".
Existence and Location of Originals
Original in the collection of Lloyd S. Taylor.
Note
Original photograph taken at same time as 36/55, 38/56, 39/57 and 43/60.
Box 1, Folder 9, Item 3
[36/55] Barnstormers pose in front of their
Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" with a businessman, in a field near South Bend, Indiana,
admired by a crowd of young children
1920 June
Physical Description: 1
photograph : sepia ; 3.25 x 5.5 in. Annotated on back: "Sun Mag Flying
'A'".
Note
Original photograph from the collection of Lloyd S. Taylor, taken at same time as
35/56, 38/56, 39/57 and 43/60.
Box 1, Folder 9, Item 4
[38/56] Barnstormer (R) and passenger (L) in
front of Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny", in a field near South Bend, Indiana
1920 June
Physical Description: 1
photograph : sepia ; 4.25 x 3.25 in.
Note
Original photograph from the collection of Lloyd S. Taylor, taken at same time as
36/55, 35/56, 39/57 and 43/60.
Box 1, Folder 9, Item 5
[39/57] Two barnstormers (L) and male and female
passenger (R) in front of Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" in a field near South Bend,
Indiana
1920 June
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. [image 3.25 x 5.5 in.]. Annotated
on back: "Sun Mag Flyers 'I'".
Existence and Location of Originals
Original in the collection of Lloyd S. Taylor.
Note
Original photograph taken at same time as 36/55, 35/56, 38/56 and 43/60.
Box 1, Folder 10
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(5 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 10, Item 1
[40/58] Stunt man balanced on his head on the
nose of biplane in flight
circa
1920-1930
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 10, Item 2
[42/59] Stunt man hangs by his teeth from a rope
ladder suspended from a biplane in flight
circa
1920-1930
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 10, Item 3
[41/60] Stuntmen Spider Matlock (L) and Fronty
Nichols (R) hang from wings of biplane piloted by Don MacDougall and attempt to grab
hats held by two men on the ground
1924
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Note
Description from Paul O'Neil,
Barnstormers & Speed
Kings
, Epic of Flight, No. 9 (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, c1981), pp.
10-11.
Box 1, Folder 10, Item 4
[43/60] Children admire Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" in
a field near South Bend, Indiana
1920 June
Physical Description: 1
photograph : b&w ; 3 x 5.25 in.
Note
Original photograph from the collection of Lloyd S. Taylor, taken at same time as
36/55, 35/56, 38/56 and 39/57.
Box 1, Folder 10, Item 5
[44/61] Triplane designed by Catron and
Fisk
1921
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 11
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(6 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 11, Item 1
[45/62] In this first midair refueling, a
wingwalker with a five-gallon can of gasoline strapped on his back climbs from the
lower plane to the upper one and pours the fuel into its tank
circa
1920-1930
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 11, Item 2
[46/63] Three wingwalkers perform simultaneously
on the top wing of a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" in the air above Los Angeles
circa
1920-1930
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 11, Item 3
[47/64] Pilot Earl Daugherty with stuntwoman
Gladys Ingle standing on the upper wing, flies over amusement park in Long Beach,
California
1920
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 11, Item 4
[48/...] James Doolittle (2nd from left), with
three unidentified men, after he led the American bomber raid on Tokyo
1942
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 11, Item 5
[50/66] Clyde Pangborn falls from a ladder
hanging from a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" piloted by Ralph Reed while attempting to
transfer to the Jenny from a speeding car, on a beach near San Diego,
California
1920
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Oiginal: General Dynamics, Convair Division.
Note
Description from Paul O'Neil,
Barnstormers & Speed
Kings
, Epic of Flight, No. 9 (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, c1981), pp.
8-9.
Box 1, Folder 12
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(7 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 12, Item 1
[51/68] Wingwalker _______ Campbell waves from
the top wing of Frank Clarke's Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny"
circa
1920-1930
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. [image 6.5 x 8.75 in.]. Caption on
photograph: "Campbell Has Walked All Over Clarke's Plane While in the Air, Without
..."
Existence and Location of Originals
From unidentified publication. Original: South Bend Tribune, South Bend,
Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 12, Item 2
[52/69] Wingwalker Leigh Sellers standing on
tail of Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" in flight
circa
1920-1930
Physical Description: 1 photo post card : sepia ; 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Captioned: "Photo by Ault".
Box 1, Folder 12, Item 3
[53/70] With no one in the cockpit, the pilot
steers this barnstorming plane in the air by pulling control wires from the tail,
while his partner hangs from a wing strut
circa
1920-1930
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. [image 4.75 x 7.75 in.]. Caption on
photograph: "Driving From the Tail, Without a Pilot in the Cockpit."
Existence and Location of Originals
From unidentified publication. Original: South Bend Tribune, South Bend,
Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 12, Item 4
[54/71] "Director Al Christie in straw hat
instructs performers during the filming of an airplane scene in the silent film
He Married His Wife
1919
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 12, Item 5
[55/72] Stunt pilot Frank Clarke takes off from
the roof of a 12-story building [possibly the Los Angeles Railway Building] in
downtown Los Angeles in a silent movie thriller
circa 1920
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. [image 6.5 x 8.75 in.]. Caption on
photograph: "The Instant of Soaring from the Roof's Edge, As Clarke 'Took Off' from
the Top of a Twelve-Story Building."
Existence and Location of Originals
From unidentified publication. Original: South Bend Tribune, South Bend,
Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 13
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(8 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 13, Item 1
[56/75] Side view of the Martin twin-motored 800
H.P. bombing plane, The Glenn L. Martin Company, Cleveland, Ohio
1919 June 2
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 7 x 9.5 in. Caption from typed annotation on
back. Number on lower right: "M67".
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 13, Item 2
[57/75] Helmeted pilot and two friends standing
beside 1919 Martin bomber
circa 1919
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Number on lower right:
"M42".
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 13, Item 3
[58/76] General Billy Mitchell leads the bombers
that sink the captured German battleship
Ostfriesland
1921
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Annotated: "The Commanding General
Personally Directed the Attack" and "U.S. Army Air Service Photographic School,
20023".
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 13, Item 4
[59/77] General Billy Mitchell inspects a new
type of plane with the cockpit enclosed
circa
1920-1925
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 13, Item 5
[61/80] Army Air Service World Cruiser
Chicago on round-the-world flight
1924
Physical Description: 1 photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5
x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 13, Item 6
[62/82] Two views of the U.S. Air Service
(Douglas World Cruiser) airplanes that made the first flight around the world,
pulled up on foreign beaches for inspection
1924
Physical Description: 1
double photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 14
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(9 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 14, Item 1
[65/89] First airmail plane (Curtiss JN-4
"Jenny") takes off from Washington, DC, for Philadelphia, while President Woodrow
Wilson watches
1918 May 15
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 14, Item 2
[67/93] Top image: "Serious Business:
Grim-visaged National Air Transport (NAT) employees supervise the loading of sacks
of U.S. mail onto a plane at Hadley Airport near New Brunswick, N.J. in 1927. Note
the parachute-laden pilot." Bottom image: "Today the mail carried by wide-bodied
aircraft is placed into containers which are lifted by loaders and rolled onto the
lower decks of the aircraft."
1927,
1977
Physical Description: 1 photograph [two images] : b&w ; 8 x
10 in. ; + United Airlines news release, July 11, 1977.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: United Airlines.
Box 1, Folder 14, Item 3
[69/96] 1926 Swallow biplane (airmail plane) and
United Air Lines 737 jet airliner
circa 1976
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 14, Item 4
[70/97] United Air Lines Boeing 40A
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in. Annotated on back.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: United Airlines.
Box 1, Folder 15
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(10 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 15, Item 1
[71/99] "50 Years of Transcontinental Service";
map showing route of first transcontinental air service
1927,
1977
Physical Description: 1
photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. ; + United Airlines news release dated July 20,
1977. News release: "Coast-to-coast Map: When coast-to-coast service was inaugurated
in 1927, it involved 17 cities and 15 intermediate stops. It also involved flights
in a Boeing Air Transport Boeing 40A airplane and a National Air Transport Douglas
M-4 airplane. BAT flew between the West Coast and Chicago, and NAT flew between the
East Coast and Chicago. When the two pioneer airlines linked up at Chicago on 1
Sept. 1927, transcontinental air service was born. Today the Boeing 747 and the
McDonnell Douglas DC-10 make the coast-to-coast flight in less than 5 hours
non-stop."
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: United Airlines.
Box 1, Folder 15, Item 2
[72/100] American Airlines Ford Tri-Motor
[affectionately known as the "Tin Goose"]
1963
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Take-Off Photo #3-2-A. Stamped July
25. 1963. This airplane, N9683, is now on display at the Smithsonian National Air
& Space Museum.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Airlines.
Box 1, Folder 15, Item 3
[73/101] American Airlines Mail
Plane
1935
Physical Description: 1
photograph : b&w ; 4.75 x 8.75 in. Stamped on back: "Aug. 4 1935". From South
Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 16
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(11 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 16, Item 1
[75/106] A. Roy Knabenshue taking off in his
airship from the west side of Central Park, New York City
1905 August 2
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 10 x 8 in. Caption on bottom: "The First
Voyage By Airship Over Manhattan, August 2nd [1905]"
Existence and Location of Originals
From unidentified publication. Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone,
Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 16, Item 2
[76/106] Airship
California Arrow in Flight at the St. Louis Fair
1898
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Stamped on back: "Bell Aircraft
Corporation, Photographic Department".
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 16, Item 3
[86/112] "Circling the Capitol Dome in an
Air-Ship"
1906 June 30
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
From an unidentified publication. Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone,
Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 16, Item 4
[87/114] Walter Wellman's balloon
America about to make a forced landing in the sea after its
transatlantic attempt failed, photograph from the rescue ship
Trent
1910 October
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. [image 5.75 x 9.5 in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 16, Item 5
[88/116] Biplane alongside U.S. Navy dirigible
Shenandoah above Los Angeles
1924
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 5 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 16, Item 6
[93/123] Travelers wait to board the LZ 127
Graf Zeppelin in the hangar at Lakehurst, New
Jersey
circa
1928-1937
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 17
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(12 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 17, Item 1
[96/128] U.S. Navy NC-3 drifts backward into
harbor, Porta Delgada, Azores
1919 May 19
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Smithsonian Institution,Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 17, Item 2
[97/129] Mechanics work on the NC-4, the first
airplane to fly across the Atlantic, the only one of 3 Navy flying boats to complete
the trip
1919 May
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 17, Item 3
[101/135] Richard E. Byrd's tri-motor Fokker
America being prepared outside its hangar on Long
Island for its attempted flight from New York to France
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 18
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(13 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 18, Item 1
[103/140] Pilot Verne Jobst beside replica of
Spirit of St. Louis built to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of Lindbergh's flight
1977
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Stamped: "November 3,
1977".
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 18, Item 2
[104/142] Charles Lindbergh stands by the
cockpit window as the engine of the
Spirit of St. Louis
is started for the first time at the Ryan Aircraft factory in San Diego
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Ryan Aeronautical Library.
Box 1, Folder 18, Item 3
[106/147] Charles A. Lindbergh in front of the
Spirit of St. Louis
circa 1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: United Airlines.
Box 1, Folder 18, Item 4
[108/151] Charles A. Lindbergh arriving from
Paris at Croydon Aerodrome, London
1927 May 29
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 18, Item 5
[109/152] Charles A. Lindbergh with "keep out"
sign hung in front of the
Spirit of St. Louis by the
Ryan Aircraft workers who built it
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Ryan Aeronautical Library.
Box 1, Folder 19
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(14 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 19, Item 1
[112/159] Clarence Chamberlin (L) shakes hands
with Charles A. Levine (R) in front of the plane
Columbia in which they flew across the Atlantic in June
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 19, Item 2
[114/164] Richard E. Byrd's tri-motor Fokker
America floats in the Atlantic off the French coast
after a forced landing while attempting to fly across the Atlantic
1927 July
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 19, Item 3
[115/165] Passengers arriving at Lisbon,
Portugal, from New York on Pan American
Dixie Clipper
(Boeing B-314), on second trans-Atlantic passenger flight
1939 June 28
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Pan American World Airways.
Box 1, Folder 19, Item 4
[116/165] Pan American Clipper (Boeing B-314)
taking off
circa 1939
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Pan American World Airways.
Box 1, Folder 20
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(15 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 20, Item 1
[110/168] Charles A. Lindbergh and Will Rodgers
in front of a tri-motor Ford transport plane
1927 September
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 5 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: American Hall of Aviation History, Northrop University.
Box 1, Folder 20, Item 2
[118/170] Close-up shot of Mildred Doran, only
woman in the Dole Derby, posed before glass doors of building
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 10 x 8 in. Annotated on back: "Doran, Mildred,
1927".
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Flint Journal, Flint, Michigan.
Box 1, Folder 20, Item 3
[117 (recte 118)/171]
Angel
of Los Angeles
, entrant in Dole Derby, crashed during a test flight a few
days before the takeoff [August 16, 1927], killing pilot A. V. Rogers
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Copy released for publication May
3, 1977.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Star Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Box 1, Folder 20, Item 4
[119/173] Mildred Doran, only woman in the Dole
Derby, in uniform, with dog, Honolulu
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 10 x 8 in. Annotated on back: "Doran, Mildred
with dog, Honolulu, 1927".
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Flint Journal, Flint, Michigan.
Box 1, Folder 20, Item 5
[120/175] Major Livingston Irving (with wife and
child?) in front of the
Pabco Flyer, his entry in the
Dole Derby; the plane crashed during takeoff, but Irving escaped from the
wreckage
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Copy photograph dated May 3,
1977.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Box 1, Folder 21
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(16 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 21, Item 1
[121/178] The
Woolaroc, piloted by Arthur Goebel, taxis up to the grandstand at Wheeler
Field, Honolulu, upon arrival from San Francisco, in the Dole Derby
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Copy photograph dated May 3,
1977.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Box 1, Folder 21, Item 2
[122/179] Hawaiian children inspect Martin
Jensen's
Aloha, 2nd-place winner in the Dole
Derby
1927 August
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Copy released for publication May
3, 1977.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Star Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Box 1, Folder 21, Item 3
[123/181] Arthur Goebel (2nd from left) receives
congratulations for winning the Dole Derby and the $25,000 first prize
1927 August
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Caption on photograph: "Arthur
Goebel winner of the Dole Derby from Oakland Calif. to Wheeler Field [Honolulu,
Hawaii], 12:.. [illegible] P.M." Copy photograph dated May 3, 1977.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Box 1, Folder 21, Item 4
[124/181] James Dole (center), sponsor of the
Dole Derby, delivers $25,000 check to the winners, Lt. William V. Davis , navigator,
and Arthur C. Goebel, pilot, of the
Woolaroc (L), and
$10,000 to Martin Jensen, pilot and Paul Schluter, navigator, of the 2nd-place
Aloha (R)
1927 August
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Copy photograph released for
publication May 3, 1977.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Star Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Box 1, Folder 22
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(17 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 22, Item 1
[125/184-185] Photograph of the workers at the
Ryan Aircraft plant in San Diego, California, who built the
Spirit of St. Louis
1927
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. [image 4.5 x 9.5 in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Ryan Aeronautical Library.
Note
Charles A. Lindbergh, wearing a felt hat, is standing in front of the propeller;
Douglas Corrigan, in work clothes, is 7th from the right.
Box 1, Folder 22, Item 2
[126/187] Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan seated in
cockpit of rebuilt Curtiss Robin in which he flew from California to
Ireland
1938
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 22, Item 3
[127/189] Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan standing
in front of rebuilt Curtiss Robin in which he flew from California to
Ireland
1938
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 22, Item 4
[128/192] Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, with
oranges in hand, at Fashion Park Estates, once the site of his Santa Ana orange
grove
circa 1970
Physical Description: 1
photograph : b&w ; 10 x 8 in. Photograph by Richard A. Pucillo; stamped August
28, 1970.
Existence and Location of Originals
Obtained from Santa Ana Register, Santa Ana, California.
Box 1, Folder 23
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(18 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 23, Item 1
[129/195] Amelia Earhart in front of the
Lockheed Electra in which she attempted to fly around the world
1937
Physical Description: 1
photograph : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
Box 1, Folder 23, Item 2
[130/196] (L to R) Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post,
and Roscoe Turner
1935 July 18
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
Box 1, Folder 23, Item 3
[131/198] Amelia Earhart rests against a wall
while supervising the construction of the Lockheed Electra in which she attempted to
fly around the world
circa 1937
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
Box 1, Folder 23, Item 4
[132/199] Amelia Earhart inside the unfinished
cabin of the Lockheed Electra examining blueprints for the plane
circa 1937
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
Box 1, Folder 23, Item 5
[133/201] Amelia Earhart standing in the cockpit
of the unfinished Lockheed Electra examining blueprints for the plane
circa 1937
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
Box 1, Folder 24
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their Pants
(19 of 19)
Box 1, Folder 24, Item 1
[135/203] Amelia Earhart in front of the
Lockheed Electra in which she attempted to fly around the world
1937
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
Box 1, Folder 24, Item 2
[136/206] B-17 Flying Fortress bomber
Carol Jean at a U.S. Air Force base in England
circa
1942-1945
Physical Description: 1
photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Attached caption by the Industrial News Section,
Industrial Services Division, BPR - War Department. Annotated on back: "U.S. Army
Air Forces Photo".
Existence and Location of Originals
From the Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 24, Item 3
[139/207] Formation of B-17 Flying Fortress
bombers dropping bombs over Germany
circa
1942-1945
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 24, Item 4
[140/208] British Airways Concorde jet taking
off
circa 1976
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: British Airways.
Photographs used in
By the Seat of Their
Pants
, Oversize
Box 2, Folder 1
[21/36-37] Glenn Curtiss winning speed contest
and a $3,000 prize in one of his own planes at the Dominguez Air Show near Los
Angeles
1910
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 13.5 in. [on cardboard mount, 11 x 14
in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 2, Folder 2
[.../43] Rear view of the biplane in which
Lincoln Beachey was killed at San Francisco on 14 March 1915
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 9 x 13.5 in. [on cardboard mount, 11 x 14
in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 2, Folder 3
[.../45] Grover Bell
1912
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 11 x 13.5 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 2, Folder 4
[.../45] Glenn Curtiss standing beside plane he
built and flew in 1910
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 7.75 x 13.25 in. [on cardboard mount, 11 x 14
in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 2, Folder 5
[.../80] Grover Bell in one of first American
planes to take off from water
1912
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8.75 x 13.5 in. [on cardboard mount, 11 x 14
in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 2, Folder 6
[74/104] "Pioneer dirigible, photographed near
Los Angeles"
1910
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 13.5 in. [on cardboard mount, 11 x 14
in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 2, Folder 7
[.../111] Lincoln Beachy racing A. Roy
Knabenshue in dirigible at Dominguez Field, Los Angeles
1910 January
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8.5 x 12.5 in. [on cardboard mount, 9.25 x
12.5 in., with applied raised captions].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 2, Folder 8
[105/146] Four men and a gas can in front of
biplane
circa
1910-1920
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 13.25 x 8 in. [on cardboard mount, 14 x 11
in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lawrence Bell Collection, Mentone, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 25
Photographs from Amelia Earhart,
20 Hours 40
Minutes
(1928), not used in Ault's book
1928
Box 1, Folder 25, Item 1
Wilmer Stultz in flight jacket, helmet and goggles
circa 1928
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
From:
20 Hours 40 Minutes, p. 36.
Box 1, Folder 25, Item 2
Amelia Earhart posed leather jacket and flight helmet
circa 1928
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
From:
20 Hours 40 Minutes, p. 53.
Box 1, Folder 25, Item 3
(L to R) Mrs. Frederick Guest, Lou Gordon, Amelia Earhart, Wilmer Stutz,
Mrs. Foster Welch, mayor of Southampton, England, at Southampton
1928
Physical Description: 1 photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8
x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
From:
20 Hours 40 Minutes, p. 56.
Box 1, Folder 25, Item 4
Three frames from cartoon strip "Skippy", captioned: "Percy Crosby's Skippy
has his own ideas about flying the Atlantic"
circa 1928
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
From:
20 Hours 40 Minutes, p. 122.
Box 1, Folder 25, Item 5
Seaplane
Friendship tied to buoy at Burry
Point, Wales
1928
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
From:
20 Hours. 40 Minutes, p. 202.
Box 1, Folder 25, Item 6
Seaplane
Friendship on the water with Amelia
Earhart leaning out the door
1928
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
From:
20 Hours 40 Minutes, p. 205.
Box 1, Folder 25, Item 7
Amelia Earhart surrounded by a crowd at Toynbee Hall, London
1928
Physical Description: 1
photograph [reproduction] : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. Caption: "At Toynbee Hall, London,
copyright World Wide Photos".
Existence and Location of Originals
From:
20 Hours. 40 Minutes, p. 264.
Box 1, Folder 26
Photographic Negative
undated
Box 1, Folder 26, Item 1
[.../28] Samuel P. Langley's
Aerodrome hopefully illustrated in flight
undated
Physical Description: 1
photographic negative : 5 x 7 in.
Note
#2 on panel illustrating powered flight. Note by Iris Critchell: "May be of the
exhibit in Arnold Hall at the Air Force Academy".
Box 1, Folder 27
[2/13] Map with cross indicating approximately
where Amelia Earhart's
Friendship sighted the passenger
liner
America
1928 June
Physical Description: 1
map : 3.5 x 4.25 in. [on 9 x 7.25 in. mount].
Box 2, Folder 9
[134/202] Route of Amelia Earhart's last
flight
1937
Physical Description: 1
map : 7 x 8.5 in. [on 10 x 11.5 in. mount].
Box 1, Folder 28
Aviation Hall of Fame (Dayton, Ohio), awards honoring pioneer
aviators
1962-1976
Physical Description: 15 sheets, each 12 x 16 in.,
folded to form a 12 x 8 inch folio.Each award consists of a short
biographical sketch with a reproduction of a pencil portrait sketch by Milton
Caniff.
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 1
[113/163] Bernt Balchen
(1899-1973)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 2
[23/40] Lincoln Beachy (1887-1915)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 3
[100/133] Richard Evelyn Byrd
(1888-1957)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 4
[102/137] Clarence Duncan Chamberlin
(1893-1976)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 5
[29/46] Glenn Hammond Curtiss
(1878-1930)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 6
[49/65] James Harold Doolittle
(1896-1993)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 7
[7/22] Amelia Earhart Putnam
(1897-1937)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 8
[89/119] A. Roy Knabenshue
(1876-1960)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 9
[9/28] Samuel Pierpont Langley
(1834-1906)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 10
[68/95] Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(1902-1974)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 11
[63/85] William Mitchell
(1879-1936)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 12
[30/48] Calbraith Perry Rodgers
(1879-1912)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 13
[13/30] Charles Edward Taylor
(1868-1956)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 14
[17/33] Orville Wright (1871-1948)
Box 1, Folder 28, Item 15
[18/34] Wilbur Wright (1867-1912)
Box 2, Folder 10, Item 1
[15/32] Front page of
South Bend Tribune, with highlighted article, "Airship That Really
Flies," about Wright brothers' successful flight from December 18, 1903
1972
Physical Description: 1
photostat : 12.25 x 8.5 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana.
Box 2, Folder 10, Item 2
[16/32] Blow-up of article, "Airship That Really
Flies," from front page of
South Bend
Tribune
1972
Physical Description: 1
photostat : 12 x 10 in.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana.
Box 1, Folder 29, Item 1
[.../55] South Bend, Indiana, newspaper
advertisement for "Free Aerial Exhibition ... Sunday afternoon,
1920 June 20
Physical Description: 1
photostat : 8 x 10 in. [image 5 x 4.25 in.].
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Lloyd S. Taylor.
Box 1, Folder 29, Item 2
[64/88 and 66/91] "Air Transport 1976", with
color reproductions of U.S. postage stamps bearing images of airplanes
1976
Physical Description: 1
sheet : 8.5 x 11 in.
Note
Overleaf text signed by Paul R. Ignatius, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Air Transport Association of America.
Box 1, Folder 29, Item 3
[77/107; 78/107; 80/109; 81/109, 82/110; 83/110;
84/110, 90/118, 91/121]
Eugen Wolf, "The First Flight of Count Zeppelin's
Air Ship,"
McClure's Magazine, vol. 16, no. 1.
Offprint
1900 November
Box 1, Folder 29, Item 4
[79/108] First Ascent this Season, Vauxhall
Nassau Royal Balloon at Six O'Clock Next Friday, May 12, 1837
undated
Physical Description: 1
handbill [reproduction] : 8.5 x 5.5 in. ; blue ink on white paper.
Existence and Location of Originals
Original: Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box 1, Folder 29, Item 5
[92/122] Layout of passenger accommodations on
board the airship
Hindenburg
1936
Physical Description: 1
photocopy sheet : 7.25 x 8.5 in.
Note
From an unknown publication.
Box 1, Folder 29, Item 6
[107/149] (Top) Original and (bottom) newspaper
enlargement of U.S. Postal Service 13-cent stamp, issued in May 1977, commemorating
the 50th anniversary of Charles A. Lindbergh's flight from New York to
Paris
1977
Physical Description: 1
sheet : 11 x 8.5 in.
