The Jack Kerr Curtiss-Wright Corporation Slides is a collection comprised of 175 color slides depicting aircraft, people, activities, and facilities of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation in Buffalo, New York and Columbus, Ohio taken by Kerr circa 1937-1947.

As a whole, the collection of slides provides valuable visual documentation of Curtiss' World War II-era aircraft development program. Aircraft documented in the images include the O-52 Owl, SB2C Helldiver, P-36 Hawk, XP-37, various models of the P-40 Warhawk, and the XP-46. The majority of slides in the collection include depictions of aircraft, pictured in a variety of types of scenes. Aircraft are depicted on tarmacs being inspected and readied for flight by ground crew and test pilots; in flight; in hangars; and under construction, including assembly line and factory scenes. Of particular note are 12 images depicting the Curtiss XSB2C-1, prototype for the SBC2 Helldiver, which had crashed landed February 8, 1941, in a field and damaged its fuselage near the tail. There are 11 images of P-40 nose-down in a field. A P-36 in Iranian markings is seen in a few images.

Kerr also documented everyday activities of Curtiss employees, including workers in factories, female "Rosie the Riveter" workers, ground crews, and test pilots, and some executives. Identified individuals include Don R. Berlin, pilot H. Lloyd Childs, Ed Elliott, Bob Fausel, Herb Fisher, test pilot Barton T. "Red" Hulse, project engineer W. P. "Santa Claus" McKinnie, and engineer Bill Webster. Jack Kerr and his wife Frances are also depicted in a few images.

Additionally, the slides include depictions of Curtiss-Wright facilities. About three dozen images depict the construction of a Curtiss plant in Buffalo, New York, likely their plant #2 which manufactured P-40s and was later sold to Westinghouse Electric. A Curtiss building in Columbus, Ohio is also pictured in at least one slide and there is also an aerial view of that facility. One slide shows the Playboy Motor Car Corporation Headquarters, also located in Buffalo.

All slides are 35mm color Kodachrome. Some images have identifications and captions written on the slide mounts, presumably by Kerr or the collection donor, but many do not. Additional identifications were made by Museum staff.