Curtiss
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2008-03-31
Overview
Peter M. Bowers (1918-2003) was an aeronautical engineer at The Boeing Company for 36 years but was more noted as an aviation historian who wrote several dozen books and close to 900 articles on aircraft. This collection is notable for the approximately 150,000 photographic images he amassed during his career, as well as his writing and research files. The materials span the early 1900s to 2003.
Dates:
circa 1900s-2003
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
William S. Luckey Aviation Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2007-09-24
Abstract
William S. Luckey was an acclaimed Curtiss Flying Team pilot best known as the winner of The New York Times race around Manhattan Island on Oct. 13, 1913. The William S. Luckey Aviation Collection consists of visual and textual materials related to Luckey's aviation career and to his wife, Laura Luckey.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1913-1915; 1898-1959
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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- 8mm (photographic film size) 1
- Air shows 1
- Aircraft cabins 1
- Aircraft industry -- United States -- History 1
- Airlines 1
- Airplane racing 1
- Airplanes 1
- Airplanes -- Markings 1
- Airplanes, Military 1
- Biplanes 1
- Bowers (Peter M.) Fly Baby 1
- Bowers (Peter M.) Fly Baby 1A 1
- Curtiss Model D 1
- Curtiss Model D Hydro Headless 1
- Gliders (Aeronautics) 1
- Hammondsport (N.Y.) 1
- Keuka Lake (N.Y.) 1
- Kingston (Ont.) 1
- New York (State) 1
- Parachuting 1
- Research aircraft 1
- Seaplanes 1
- South Carolina 1
- articles 1
- audiocassettes 1
- broadsides (notices) 1
- contracts 1
- floppy disks 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
- microfilms 1
- open reel audiotapes 1
- photograph albums 1
- photographic postcards 1
- printed ephemera 1
- sales catalogs 1
- scrapbooks 1
- transparencies 1
- videocassettes 1 + ∧ less
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