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Hamilton Coolidge World War I Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-10-16-101
Abstract

Hamilton "Ham" Coolidge (1895-1918) was one of many young men from wealthy New England families who enlisted during World War I. The collection contains materials related to Captain Coolidge's service a pilot with the U.S. Army Air Service 94th Aero Squadron. Coolidge achieved Ace status, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, and was killed in action.

Dates: circa 1917-1925
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Merle M. Coons Fighter Ace Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-02-13-1136
Abstract

Colonel Merle Coons (1921-1997) was a United States Air Force fighter pilot, earning ace status during World War II. The collection is a subset of the American Fighter Aces Collection and includes primarily textual materials, such as military orders and records, flight records and a log book, and a scrapbook, as well as a photograph album and a small amount of loose photographs.

Dates: 1942-1997
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Thomas Cooper World War II Photograph Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2009-08-13-A
Contents of the Collection The Thomas Cooper World War II Photograph Collection is comprised of 42 photographs mostly taken by Paul A. Payne, with whom Thomas Cooper served in United States Marine Corps in the Pacific theater of World War II. The photographs were taken on Saipan and Tinian in the Mariana Islands between 1944 and 1945. They feature several American aircraft, such as a Northrop P-61, a Douglas C-47, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, and several Boeing B-29s. Many of the B-29 photographs were taken on...
Dates: Circa 1943-1946
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Elliott N. Couden Airmail Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1983-11-18-A
Contents of the Collection The Elliott N. Couden Airmail Collection is a relatively small collection that pertains to the early days of airmail via Pacific Air Transport (PAT), United Air Lines (UAL), and Varney Air Lines (VAL). It includes textual and photographic materials, dating from 1929-1944. Textual materials include both original and photocopies of clippings related to airmail pilots of the 1930s-1940s, including some of their crashes and deaths; and airmail service, including news about routes....
Dates: 1926-1948
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Donald B. Croly Boeing Concept Art Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-03-14
Contents of the Collection The Donald B. Croly Boeing Concept Art Collection holds 39 pieces of concept art created by Croly, circa 1940s-1970s, during his time as an artist at the Boeing Company. Most are original gouache paintings, although there are three pen and ink and graphite drawings and two photographic reproduction posters. Scenes primarily depict aircraft in a variety of settings, including in flight, parked at terminals and engaged in U.S. Air Force military operations. A small number feature...
Dates: circa 1940s-1970s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Jesse R. Crookshanks Flying Tigers Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2001-05-25
Contents of the Collection

The collection includes photographs and assorted reunion publications, circa 1940s, related to the American Volunteer Group (AVG) "Flying Tigers" collected by AVG member Jesse R. Crookshanks.

Dates: circa 1940s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Lester Lee Cruse Commercial Airline Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2024-08-01
Contents of the Collection The Lester Lee Cruse Commercial Airline Collection is a small collection that holds textual and visual materials relevant to the 1956-1977 career of Lester Lee Cruse, pilot for Japan Airlines, Saudia, Southern Airways, Trans Mediterranean Airways, and Trans World Airlines (TWA). Materials include his flight log books, which start with his flight training in 1949 and continue through his career through 1977. The logs include brief information about type of aircraft, origination...
Dates: 1945-1984
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Jeffry Culver Boeing Field Negatives

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2024-01-29
Contents of the Collection The Jeffry Culver Boeing Field Negatives is comprised of 22 black-and-white negatives taken at King County International Airport, otherwise known as Boeing Field, by Culver in 1970. The images are 35mm and were taken for a photography class while Culver was a student at Bellevue High School in Bellevue, Washington. The images depict stationary aircraft at the airport. Many of the aircraft views are obscured or from a distance. Some images include people and or buildings in the background....
Dates: 1970
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Ethyl Y. Dale Airman's World Annotated Book

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1982-02-11-A
Content Description The Ethyl Y. Dale Airman's World Annotated Book is a small collection consisting of one book that Dale used as a travel diary from 1932-1969. The book is a copy of Airman's World published by William Morrow in New York in 1933. Dale recorded all the flights she took throughout the pages of the book. She noted in the page margins the origins and destinations of her flights, occasionally recorded the date, and had...
Dates: 1932-1969
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Norman Damborg Lockheed and Northwest Airlines Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1984-12-28-B
Contents of the Collection

The collection is comprised of Northwest Airlines and Northwest Orient Airlines promotional material highlighting Lockheed aircraft. A Lockheed-Northwest Sales Development Material kit includes three lithographs and a photograph of Lockheed military and commercial aircraft. The collection also includes a Northwest Orient Airlines in-flight entertainment booklet containing puzzles and trivia about the Lockheed Super Constellation.

Dates: Circa 1950s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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photographic prints 466
clippings (information artifacts) 200
World War, 1939-1945 197
printed ephemera 183
correspondence 174
certificates 111
logs (records) 109
Air pilots, Military 108
Air pilots 88
Airlines 82
photocopies 82
World War, 1914-1918 80
Airplanes, Military 79
military records 78
booklets 76
negatives (photographs) 75
Flight attendants 67
postcards 63
scrapbooks 63
brochures 60
slides (photographs) 59
Soldiers 56
photograph albums 56
Aircraft accidents 54
Boeing Company -- Employees 54
aerial photographs 54
identity cards 54
Women in aeronautics 51
Washington (State) 46
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Family 45
lithographs 45
maps (documents) 45
notes (documents) 44
business cards 43
memorandums 43
Seattle (Wash.) 42
decals 42
menus 42
posters 40
France 39
orders (military records) 39
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area 38
photographic postcards 38
articles 35
technical reports 34
digital prints 33
notebooks 33
Airplanes -- Design and construction 32
newsletters 32
Boeing Model 747 Family 31
programs (documents) 31
technical drawings 31
Fighter pilots 30
Airships 29
Seaplanes 29
signatures (names) 29
Alaska 28
Flight training 27
Japan 27
Northwest, Pacific 27
personnel records 27
Women air pilots 26
airline maps 26
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Family 25
drawings (visual works) 25
instructional materials 25
stationery 25
transportation timetables 25
Germany 24
Aeronautics, Commercial 22
California 22
advertisements 22
16mm (photographic film size) 21
Air mail service 21
Boeing Model 707 Family 21
Bombing, Aerial 21
Airplanes -- Flight testing 20
Biplanes 20
China 20
manuals (instructional materials) 20
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 19
Curtiss JN-4D Jenny 19
TMOF Aircraft 19
audiocassettes 19
manuscripts (documents) 19
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 18
Douglas DC-3 Family 18
England 18
Hawaii 18
admission tickets 18
blueprints (reprographic copies) 18
luggage tags 18
Aces (Fighter pilots) 17
Air shows 17
Airplanes 17
Astronauts 17
DVDs 17
Douglas C-47 Skytrain Family 17
Training 17
de Havilland (Airco) D.H.4 17
Names
United States. Navy 81
United States. Air Force 67
United States. Army Air Forces 59
Boeing 58
Boeing Company 50
United Airlines 46
Pan American World Airways, Inc. 41
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 29
United States. Army. Air Corps 27
Northwest Airlines, Inc. 25
Trans World Airlines 23
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces 21
United States. Army. Air Service 19
Western Airlines 19
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 18
Project Apollo (U.S.) 17
United States. Army 17
King County International Airport 15
United States. Marine Corps 15
North American 14
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 13
Douglas 12
American Airlines 11
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) 11
Alaska Airlines 10
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 10
Lockheed 10
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th 10
United States. Naval Reserve 10
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 9
Curtiss 9
Museum of Flight (Seattle, Wash.) 9
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 9
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 9
Air Line Pilots Association 8
Braniff Airways 8
Douglas Aircraft Company 8
Lunar Orbiter (Artificial satellite) 8
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) 7
Continental Airlines 7
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 7
Delta Air Lines 7
Eastern Air Lines 7
Flying Tiger Line 7
Hughes Airwest 7
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" 7
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport 7
Slayton, Donald K., 1924-1993 7
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 7
Boeing Air Transport 6
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 6
Boeing School of Aeronautics (Oakland, Calif.) 6
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 6
Consolidated Aircraft Corp 6
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 6
John F. Kennedy Space Center 6
Merrill, A. Elliott (Albert), 1901-1992 6
National Championship Air Races 6
Northrop 6
Quiet Birdmen 6
United States. Army. European Theater of Operations 6
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 6
United States. Army. Signal Corps 6
Varney Air Lines 6
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 6
American Fighter Aces Association 5
Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) 5
Apollo Soyuz Test Project 5
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 5
China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group 5
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Boston" (#3) 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Chicago" (#2) 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "New Orleans" (#4) 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Seattle" (#1) 5
Fairchild 5
Fokker 5
Germany. Luftwaffe 5
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps 5
Kelly Field (Tex.) 5
Lear, William P. (William Powell), 1902-1978 5
McDonnell Douglas Corp 5
National Airlines 5
Pearson Field (Vancouver, Wash.) 5
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935 5
Scandinavian Airlines System 5
Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 5
Stearman (1927) 5
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 5
United States. Air Force. Military Air Transport Service 5
United States. Army. Air Service. Aero Squadron, 95th 5
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. Services of Supply 5
Aerocar, Inc 4
Akron (Airship) 4
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 4
Barr, Julius A., 1905-1939 4
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 4
Boeing, Bertha Marie (Potter Paschall), 1891-1977 4
British Airways 4
Challenger (Spacecraft) 4

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