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Box 1

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

Photographs (2 of 4), circa 1917-1918

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Contents One (1) group photograph of pilots in Morristown, New Jersey, July 21, 1917. Inscription: Bill Ely, W. Bartlett Bacon, G. H. Kissel, R. L. Moore, E.E. Bates, Ham Coolidge, Doug Campbell. July 21 1917; Morristown N. J.One (1) photograph of a memorial to Quentin Roosevelt, undated. The memorial may be at Groton School; there is a reference to his time as Press Editor for the years 1914-1915, which would have been his final year at Groton....
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1917-1918

Photographs (3 of 4), circa 1917-1918

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Contents

Seventeen (17) photographs, mainly of World War I aircraft, circa 1917-1918. Also included in this group of photographs are several photographs of Hamilton Coolidge's grave. One of the photographs shows Douglas Campbell and another unidentified airman standing near the wooden grave marker, while other photographs show the stone grave marker that was put in place after the war. Identified aircraft include Curtiss JN-4 Jenny, Dorand Type A.R.1 D2, and Nieuport 28 D1.

Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1917-1918

Photographs (4 of 4), circa 1917-1918

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Contents

Eighteen (18) photographs from the front during World War I, circa 1917-1918. This group of photographs includes images of Allied and German trenches, aerial photographs of battlefields, and photographs of men working on aircraft and aircraft engines. Identified aircraft include Nieuport 27, de Havilland (Airco) D.H.4, and Spad XIII.

Please note that some of the items in this folder contain graphic images of wartime casualties.

Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1917-1918

Identification cards, circa 1916-1918

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Contents Aero Club of American Aviator's Certificate for Hamilton Coolidge, August 30, 1916. Includes photograph.Membership card for Lieutenant Hamilton Coolidge, 1918. Certifies Coolidge as an elected member of the Air Service Institute of the United States.American Expeditionary Forces Identity Card for 1st Lieutenant Hamilton Coolidge, undated. Includes photograph. American Expeditionary Forces Pilot's Identity Card for Lieutenant Hamilton Coolidge, undated. Includes...
Dates: circa 1916-1918

"Letters of an American Airman: Being the War Records of Capt. Hamilton Coolidge" -- book with annotations, 1919

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Contents Letters of an American Airman: Being the War Records of Capt. Hamilton Coolidge, USA. 1917-1918. Boston: Privately Printed, 1919. This copy does not have a cover, and contains many annotations and notes in pencil. It is unknown who made the annotations.Note: A second copy of this book is a clean copy which was formerly owned by the Harvard Library; it is stored in the Museum's Harl V. Brackin Memorial Library....
Dates: 1919

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