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Box 13

 Container

Contains 14 Results:

Memorandum to Earl Hughes from William B. Robertson regarding photographs of the Kingbird, 1931 June 19

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Curtiss-Wright Corporation series, with records spanning 1928-1965, is divided into five subseries: Administrative records, Legal records, Financial records, Aircraft documentation, and Airport documentation. The series largely documents real property owned by the company.The Administrative records subseries has little documentation of day-to-day operations but rather includes blank forms, narrative histories of the company and of some of its...
Dates: 1931 June 19

"Photographs of Wright Cyclone Engines" -- booklet, circa 1944 March

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Curtiss-Wright Corporation series, with records spanning 1928-1965, is divided into five subseries: Administrative records, Legal records, Financial records, Aircraft documentation, and Airport documentation. The series largely documents real property owned by the company.The Administrative records subseries has little documentation of day-to-day operations but rather includes blank forms, narrative histories of the company and of some of its...
Dates: circa 1944 March

“Queens -- Plans -- North Beach Airport”, 1924-1938, undated

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Files containing: map (17x23") of Curtiss-Wright Corporation Property at North Beach, Queens County, New York (scale 1” = 200 ft.), four copies, one annotated to show a “Proposed Hydroplane Basin” and “Condemnation Action 6-27-38”; eight aerial photographs (8x10") of the site taken by McLaughlin Air Service in 1938, one marked “Site of Proposed World’s Fair”; map (undated; 20x17") of area around the “Queens Midtown Tunnel” probably published by the New York City Tunnel Authority to promote...
Dates: 1924-1938, undated

“North Beach -- Property, Maps and Photos”, undated (circa 1930s)

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents File containing: printed description of the North Beach Airport and Property Plan; map (14x11") of the “Riker Tract, Near North Beach, Queens, N.Y.” annotated with location of a barn; aerial photograph (undated; 21.5x17.5") produced by the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service-Photo Division of the North Beach Area (two copies; one copy annotated with depiction of the proposed airport); letter from G. W. Vaughan, President of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation to John McKenzie, Commissioner of Docks...
Dates: undated (circa 1930s)

“Glenn Curtiss Air Port -- North Beach -- Flushing” -- clippings, photographs, booklets, program, 1929-1939

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents File containing: two copies of an aerial photograph (8x10") of the “Proposed New York City Airport” dated March 1934 and marked “Exhibit – I”; two aerial photographs (8x10") of North Beach taken by McLaughlin Aerial Surveys dated January 5, 1933 and May 8, 1934; two aerial photographs (8x10") of Bowery Bay taken by Fairchild Aerial Surveys and dated June 26, 1929; undated printed pamphlet titled “New York Municipal Airport: A Detailed Description of the Great Air Terminal Constructed by the...
Dates: 1929-1939

“Curtiss-Wright Flying Service” -- report with photographs, undated (circa 1930s)

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents File containing one carbon copy of an undated (probably 1933) report on the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Inc. that includes a “Brief History of the Company,” a “Schedule of Corporate Data,” an “outline Map Showing Locations of Properties,” and “Photographs of Facilities Operated.” The document may have been produced to encourage investors. The document contains 8 pages of text, one negative photostatic copy of a map of the United States showing locations of facilities, and 18 aerial...
Dates: undated (circa 1930s)

"Barren Island N.Y.C. -- Curtiss Flying Service” -- aerial photograph, undated

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Curtiss-Wright Corporation series, with records spanning 1928-1965, is divided into five subseries: Administrative records, Legal records, Financial records, Aircraft documentation, and Airport documentation. The series largely documents real property owned by the company.The Administrative records subseries has little documentation of day-to-day operations but rather includes blank forms, narrative histories of the company and of some of its...
Dates: undated

“St. Louis -- Property Construction -- Hangars & Buildings -- Terminal Building & Dormitory”, 1930

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents File containing: blueprint copy of map (26x36") of the Terminal Building at East St. Louis, Illinois, dated November 12, 1929 and annotated in yellow with corrections dated March 12, 1930. (scale 1/8” = 1 ft.); blueprint copy of drawing (undated; 13.5x21") of “Platform for Restaurant at Curtiss Airport” (scale 1/8” = 1 ft.); two pencil sketches on cardboard (11.5x8.5") of the Study and Lounge and the Caretaker’s Quarters and Dining Room; correspondence and telegrams between W.G. Hudson in...
Dates: 1930

"Curtiss Valley Stream Field, Inc." -- photographs, 1936 June

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Curtiss-Wright Corporation series, with records spanning 1928-1965, is divided into five subseries: Administrative records, Legal records, Financial records, Aircraft documentation, and Airport documentation. The series largely documents real property owned by the company.The Administrative records subseries has little documentation of day-to-day operations but rather includes blank forms, narrative histories of the company and of some of its...
Dates: 1936 June

"Couse Mobile Airport" -- photographs, clippings, and report “Advance Information on Couse CA-2 Welding Cruisers", 1939, undated

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Curtiss-Wright Corporation series, with records spanning 1928-1965, is divided into five subseries: Administrative records, Legal records, Financial records, Aircraft documentation, and Airport documentation. The series largely documents real property owned by the company.The Administrative records subseries has little documentation of day-to-day operations but rather includes blank forms, narrative histories of the company and of some of its...
Dates: 1939, undated

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