Smith, Art, 1890-1926
Person
Biographical Note
Art Smith (1890-1926) was an American pilot.
Arthur Roy Smith was born on Feburary 27, 1890 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He built his first airplane, circa 1910-1911. Smith performed as a barnstormer and pioneered night-time skywriting. During World War I, he was a test pilot and instructor at Langley Field, Virginia. After the war, Smith joined the United States Post Office and flew the overnight airmail delivery route between New York City, New York and Chicago, Illinois. Smith died on February 12, 1926, near Montpelier, Ohio when the Curtiss Carrier Pigeon he was flying crashed. He was the second overnight mail service pilot to die on duty.
Occupations
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
[Art Smith seated at controls of unidentified aircraft], circa 1910s-1930s
Item — Box Glass plates box 4, item: 179
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
With more than 229 cubic feet of material, including prints, negatives, transparencies and scrapbooks, the photographic component of the collection makes up the vast majority of the collection and is an incredible resource of documentary images of aircraft. The series is subdivided into five subseries: aircraft files, non-aircraft files, glass plates, scrapbooks and albums, and the Sommerich collection. The aircraft files are then subdivided by format: prints,...
Dates:
circa 1910s-1930s
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