Roosevelt Field (Airport : Garden City, N.Y.)

Organization

Staff Only

Found in 2 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

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

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers

Archives at The Museum of Flight

Roosevelt Field (Airport : Garden City, N.Y.)

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Margaret Keyser Early Aviation Photograph Collection

Series I. Lear Developments, 1907-1944, 1979, undated

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