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Boeing

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Historical Note

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

Henry C. Runkel Apollo Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1987-09-23
Content Description The Henry C. Runkel Apollo Collection is a small collection with visual and textual materials documenting the development of the Saturn launch vehicles used in NASA's Apollo program in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The collection consists of items gathered by Runkel who was Boeing's Chief Engineer for the S-1C stage of the Saturn V rocket at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. Of most interest is a bound document titled "Apollo Saturn V S-1C Booster...
Dates: circa 1966-1977

Jake Schultz Boeing 787 Materials

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2010-08-17
Contents of Collection

The Jake Schultz Boeing 787 Collection is a very small collection comprised of Boeing 7E7/787 Dreamliner ephemera dated 2004-2010. The collection includes brochures, decals, a first flight cover dated December 15, 2009, and business cards from various Boeing personnel, including Schultz. The materials were collected by Schultz during part of his time working at Boeing.

Dates: 2004-2010

Noah D. Showalter Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-02-25-A
Content Description The Noah D. Showalter Collection consists of textual, visual and audiovisual materials related to the career of N.D. Showalter, from his military service during World War II, to his time as a Boeing test pilot, and later work in military aircaft development.Showalter's military service as a bomber pilot during World War II is documented with a few military records but primarily with materials related to his involvement with the 483rd Bomb Group Association. Included are letters...
Dates: 1945-2012

Signed Group Portrait of African American "Rosie the Riveters"

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2018-00-00-24
Contents of the Collection The collection consists of a single black-and-white group portrait of eight (8) female African American Boeing assembly workers. It is likely the women worked at the Boeing Renton facility, circa 1940s. The women are posed in front of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress and each has signed the photograph with their name: Back row, left to right: Louise Williams, [illegible], Velma Glass Johnson, Florence Thomas; Front row, left to right: Katie Jeffries, Althea Skelton, Ella Mae, Mary...
Dates: circa 1940s

Charles E. Smith Boeing School of Aeronautics Negatives

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2023-02-03
Content Description The Charles E. Smith Boeing School of Aeronautics Negatives is a small collection consisting of five photographic images taken at the Boeing School of Aeronautics in Oakland, California circa 1929-1931. One of the images is an informal portrait of Charles E. Smith, whoc was a studetn at the School, wearing a flight suit standing alone next to the wing of an aircraft. Two other images are simliar in composition but depict two other unidentified men, possibly students or instructors at the...
Dates: circa 1929-1931

James H. Smith Aviation Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-06-20
Overview

James Hamilton Smith (1913-2002) attended the Boeing School of Aeronautics and worked in the field of aviation as a government contractor for the Boeing Company, as well as the Defense Contract Administration Services. This small collection consists primarily of black-and-white photographs that were either taken or collected by Smith during his time at the Boeing School, as well as throughout his career in aviation, which spanned from the early 1930s to the late 1960s.

Dates: 1928-1965

Fred Thibodeaux Flying Fortress School Training Certificate

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2012-06-20
Content Description

The Fred Thibodeaux Flying Fortress School Training Certificate is a small collection consisting of the certification of completion of technical aircraft training at the Boeing Flying Fortress School by Sgt. Fred Thibodeaux dated September 17, 1943. The certificate is accompanied by a grade report and an envelope with Thibodeaux's name inscribed in calligraphy.

Dates: 1943

Donald D. Viele Lunar Orbiter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-11-06
Abstract

Donald Viele was a Systems Engingeer with Boeing who worked with NASA on the Lunar Orbiter Program (1964-1967). This collection contains documents and photographs collected and authored by Viele during his time on the Lunar Orbiter team.

There is also some documentation relating to Viele's work with the Minuteman Missile program.

Dates: 1950-2016; Majority of material found within 1960-1970

Marie Vincent Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Small Collections Oversize 2019- , oversize: folder
Identifier: 2019-09-28
Content Description

The Marie Vincent Photograph Collection is a small collection consisting of two 11x14-inch hand-tinted, black-and-white photographs from approximately the late 1930s. The photographs depict two airplanes, the Boeing Y1B-17A and Beech C-45 Expeditor respecitvley. The B-17 is shown in flight over Mount Rainier, Washington. The C-45 is also depicted in flight though over unidentified mountains.

Dates: circa late 1930s

Rich Webb Boeing Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2020-03-03
Content Description The Rich Webb Boeing Collection is a small collection of items related to Boeing Company open houses in 1990-1991. There is one bumper sticker in the collection for a 1990 Renton plant open house. From a 1991 Renton plant open house celebrating 75 years of Boeing history, there are admission tickets for both 10 a.m - 1:30 p.m and 1:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. time slots as well as a set of ten trading cards featuring historic Boeing aircraft and products, such as the B&W floatplane, the B-29...
Dates: 1990-1991

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