Scope and Contents of Collection
The collection is comprised of a World War I era photograph album assembled by Edward I. Sproull while in training at Ohio State University and subsequently serving as a pilot with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Album contains three hundred twenty (320) photographs of family, friends, and fellow soldiers, as well as newspaper clippings, maps, paper ephemera, photos of battlefields in France, and aircraft and aerial images.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1915-1919
Creator
- Sproull, Edward I. (Person)
Language of Materials
A few pieces of ephemera are in French. All other materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research and is accessible in the Dahlberg Research Center by appointment. For more information contact us.
Conditions Governing Use
The Museum of Flight (TMOF) Archives is the owner of the physical materials in the archives and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from TMOF archives before any publication use. TMOF does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners. Consult repository for more details.
Biographical Note
Edward I. Sproull was born May 3, 1897 in Bedford, Indiana. He was educated at Indiana University and the University of Utah. Sproull trained at the Ohio State University School and several other army camps before serving overseas during World War I. Both he and his brother Howard served as pilots during World War I with the American squadron of the French Air Corps. After the war Edward Sproull worked as a Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.). He died in August 1956.
Source:
Biographical note derived from collection materials.
Extent
0.5 Cubic Feet (1 oversize box (12x14x5 in.) and 1 oversize folder)
Abstract
The collection contains a World War I era scrapbook photograph album assembled by Edward I. Sproull (1897-1956) while in training at Ohio State University and subsequently serving as a pilot with the A.E.F. and the American Squadron of the French Military Air Force in France.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Existence and Location of Copies
Materials from this collection have been digitized and are available at The Museum of Flight Digital Collections.
Subject
- Sproull, Edward I. (Person)
- United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces (Organization)
- United States. Army. Air Service (Organization)
Genre / Form
- European paper money
- admission tickets
- aerial photographs
- clippings (information artifacts)
- maps (documents)
- menus
- photograph albums
- photographic prints
- printed ephemera
Geographic
Topical
- Air pilots, Military
- Breguet Bre.14 Family
- Caproni Ca.3
- Curtiss JN-4D Jenny
- Fokker D.VII (V.18)
- Gotha G.III
- Letord LET.4
- Letord LET.5 A.3
- Military cadets
- Military education
- Military training camps
- Nieuport 17
- Nieuport 27
- Razzle dazzle camouflage
- SPAD XIII (S.13)
- Salmson 2 A2
- Soldiers
- Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter Family
- Voisin 3, Type LA
- Voisin 8 Ca.2 (Type LBP)
- World War, 1914-1918
- de Havilland (Airco) D.H.4
- de Havilland (Airco) D.H.9A
- Title
- Guide to the Edward I. Sproull Photograph Album
- Status
- Completed Level 4
- Author
- A. Demeter
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Processing, cataloging and digitization of this collection was made possible by a Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) "Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives" grant.
- Edition statement
- 1st Edition
Repository Details
Part of the The Museum of Flight Archives Repository
9404 East Marginal Way South
Seattle Washington 98108-4097
206-764-7874
curator@museumofflight.org