Don Brown Early Pacific Northwest Aviation Photograph Collection
Content Description
The Don Brown Early Pacific Northwest Aviation Photograph Collection is a small collection of visual materials collected by Brown that feature various aviation personalities and aviation scenes in the Pacific Northwest region during the early 20th century. The main individuals represented are Vern C. Gorst, as well as two female aviators, Florence Seidell and Ruth Wightman. Aviation scenes includes images of crowds watching planes in flight, planes in flight over water, planes parked in fields, and various pilots and people posing with aircraft. In addition there is an image of what appears to be the first commercial airmail flight out of Pasco, Washington in 1926. A variety of early aircraft designs are pictured. Some of the images feature aerial views of the Coos River and the Coquille River Valley, both in Oregon.
The collection dates from the 1910s to the 1920s and is comprised of 55 black-and-white photographic prints, 30 negatives, and 9 glass plate negatives, including one hand-tinted glass plate. Many of the photographs are copies from other collections, including the Oregon Historical Society and the Oregonian.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1910s-1920s
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.
Extent
.25 Cubic Feet (1 2-inch letter-size document box and 8 glass plate negatives)
Language
English
Separated Materials
11 photographic negatives and 20 photographic prints transferred to Biographical Files: Silas Christopherson.
Subject
- Gorst, Vern C., 1876-1953 (Person)
- Wightman, Ruth, 1897-1939 (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- California
- Coos River (Or.)
- Coquille Valley (Or.)
- North Bend (Or.)
- Oregon
- Pasco (Wash.)
- Washington (State)
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Don Brown Early Pacific Northwest Aviation Photograph Collection
- Status
- Completed Level 2
- Author
- Charise Dinges
- Date
- 2025 May
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- 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