Ed Brown Northwest Airlines Photographs

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: 1995-06-20-A

Content Description

The collection is comprised of four photographs of Northwest Airways aircraft, dated August 1933. Aircraft include a Ford Tri-motor 5AT (NC8410), Travel Air 6000 (NC8754), Stearman C3 (NC6255), and Sikorsky S-38 (NC303N). Photographs were taken at the Northwest Airways Overhaul Base at Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Dates

Creation: 1933 August

Creator

Brown, Edmund R. (Ed), 1915-1998 (Person)

Language of Materials

All materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research but has not been fully processed. Access to the collection may be limited or may require additional processing time. 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.

Historical Note: Northwest Airways in 1933

The photographer provided the following description of Northwest Airways operations at the time: "At that time, Northwest had about 200 employees and operated from Chicago to Seattle with a branch to Winnepeg, Canada and Duluth, Minn. They operated 3 Ford Trimotors, 10 Hamilton, 6 [illegible] monoplanes, 2 Sikorsky S-38. The Hamiltons operated from Chicago to Billings, Montana and the Fords Billings to Seattle. The S-38 flew from Minneapolis to Duluth, landing in Duluth Harbor."

Biographical Note: Ed Brown

Edmund R. "Ed" Brown was born circa 1915. He worked as a $65/month, 48 hour/week mechanics helper at Northwest Airways during the summer of 1933. He was based at Saint Paul, Minnesota. Brown worked half time for Bill Peterson, the electrical foreman, and half time for Manfred Boe, the instrument foreman. Ed Brown died in January 1998.

Biography derived from collection materials and Ancestry.com.