Roosevelt Field (Airport : Garden City, N.Y.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Margaret Keyser Early Aviation Photograph Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1991-07-26
Contents of the Collection
The Margaret Keyser Early Aviation Photograph Collection includes approximately 70 black-and-white photographs of assorted aircraft, 1918-1940 (bulk dates 1920s-1930s). Sizes range from 3x5" to 16x20" and many images include brief captions that provide contextual information, such as aircraft model, location, or date. A sample of identified aircraft includes the Boeing P-12E, Curtiss O-1 Falcon, Douglas B-23, Keystone Bomber, and Thomas-Morse O-19. There are also several shots of...
Dates:
1918-1940; Majority of material found within 1920s-1930s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Florence McEvoy Photographs of Charles Lindbergh
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2019-09-21
Contents of the Collection
The Florence McEvoy Photographs of Charles Lindbergh is a small collection comprised of seven black-and-white photographs taken just prior to the start of Charles Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight. Six of the photographs were taken by Florence McEvoy, who lived in Rockville Centre, Long Island, and saw the aircraft, presumably at nearby Roosevelt Airfield. Most of the prints depict Lindbergh's Ryan NYP aircraft, The Spirit of St. Louis. It is shown in a...
Dates:
1927 May 19
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Series I. Lear Developments, 1907-1944, 1979, undated
Series
Scope and Contents: Series I: Lear Developments
Series I: Lear Developments provides insight into one of WPL’s earliest companies, Lear Developments, whose main focus was aircraft radio development and production. The company was established in 1931 and continued through 1939, when it changed its name to Lear Avia Inc. The series includes materials from the lifespan of the company as well as collected items dating earlier and some items dated later due to the restructure.The series is broken down...
Dates:
1907-1944, 1979, undated
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- Subject
- photographic prints 2
- Aids to air navigation 1
- Air pilots 1
- Airplanes -- Cockpits 1
- Airships 1
- Automatic Direction Finder (ADF) 1
- Avionics 1
- Balloons 1
- Biplanes 1
- Boeing P-12 Family 1
- Boeing PW-9 Family 1
- Caquot observation balloon 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Compass 1
- Curtiss A-3 Falcon 1
- Curtiss NBS-1 (Martin MB-2) 1
- Curtiss O-1 Falcon Family 1
- Curtiss P-1A Hawk 1
- Curtiss P-1B Hawk 1
- Curtiss XNBS-4 1
- Douglas B-23 Dragon 1
- Douglas O-2 Family 1
- Douglas O-25 1
- Douglas O-38 Family 1
- Engineering Division NBL-1 Barling Bomber 1
- Engines 1
- Ford 4-AT - 14-AT Tri-Motor Family 1
- Ford C-3 Tri-Motor 1
- Ford C-4A Tri-Motor 1
- Inventions 1
- Keystone Bomber Family 1
- Learadio 1
- Navigation (Aeronautics) 1
- New York (N.Y.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- Parachutes 1
- Patent infringement 1
- Radio 1
- Radio -- Transmitters and transmission 1
- Radio direction finders 1
- Radio in aeronautics 1
- Record flight attempts 1
- Soldiers 1
- Thomas-Morse O-19 Family 1
- Transatlantic flights 1
- Waco (OH) UIC (ATC #499) 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- aerial photographs 1
- agreements 1
- correspondence 1
- de Havilland (Airco) D.H.4 1
- logos 1
- manuals (instructional materials) 1
- maps (documents) 1