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Pencil on vellum map titled “Buildings of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation, Hammondsport, N.Y., C.E.L. 1-15-17 and W.B.R. 8-1-17.” The map shows each building with dimensions, building number, and total area. The map states “total area of floor space of ground floor & Basements shown on this sheet 64,149 sq. ft. Total Area 94,861 sq. ft.” Document is 21x43"; folded with some breaks along fold lines and edges.

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“Map of Hammondsport property Made in 1919” (also marked in orange “96”). Blueprint (48x35 in.) of a map titled “Hammondsport Property of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corp, Surveyed and Sketched from Available Data, March, 1919. J.W. Forse,-Sec., Traced by E.V. Schaal, scale 1 in.=32 ft.” The map includes data about 18 deeds for six parcels of land totaling 6.9360 acres. Names of former owners are shown. Document is folded with breaks along fold lines.

Scope and Contents File containing correspondence between the U.S. Patent Office and parties involved in an “Interference” declared by the Commissioner of Patents on November 6, 1931. The Interference process was intended to resolve conflicting claims in patent applications and determine “who is the true and original inventor.” This Interference, docketed as No. 62,662 (also 65,127, 65,128, 65,129 filed subsequently) involved application 413,747 for “Aerodynamic Instruction & Testing Methods &...

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One large document dated April 27, 1917 covered with tax stamps for the state of New York for the incorporation of the Wright Martin Company.

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...

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...

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...

Scope and Contents Folder containing: map of the Curtiss-Wright Air Terminals, Inc. property at Secaucus, N.J. dated October, 1935 (scale 1”=300 ft); printed color 1929 edition of New Jersey Department of Conservation and Development topographical map (Paterson Sheet) annotated in red to show location of “flying field.”; blue line copy of map of “Property for Caldwell Wright Airport at Caldwell Township, New Jersey” dated October 2, 1940. (scale is 1”=200 ft.); blue line copy and white line copy of map of...

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Folder containing 19 drawings and blueprints of various sizes showing the location of Wright plants and property in Paterson, New Jersey, dating from the late 1920s to 1941. One drawing is stamped “Received F. U.T.& M.G. Co. Application Dept, December 14, 1928” and these drawings may have been prepared for the Fidelity Union Title and Mortgage Guaranty Co.

Scope and Contents Folders containing: typed list of properties adjacent to the Wright plant in Paterson, New Jersey on Beckwith Avenue, Madison Avenue and Lewis Street that gives lot number and name and address of owner (4 pages); blueprint copy of a survey of area around East 19th and Beckwith made for Fidelity Union Title and Mortgage Guaranty Co. dated May 25, 1928; blueprint copy of a map of the property adjacent to the Wright Property-Plant #1 dated January 23, 1942; original letter from Ferdinand A....