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Lorraine (Mulligan) Ward Flight Attendant Collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2020-03-27
Content Description
The Lorraine (Mulligan) Ward Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection of visual materials related Ward's service as a Chicago and Southern Air Lines stewardess (flight attendant) in the late 1940s. The collection is comprised of 11 photographic prints. Nine black-and-white snapshots depict scenes from a charter flight of the University of Mississippi football team, circa 1948. Team members are depicted disembarking from a Chicago and Southern Air Lines plane, posing in...
Dates:
circa 1948, 1990s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Margery Watson World War II Photographs
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2017-01-05
Contents of the Collection
The Margery Watson World War II Photographs is a small collection comprised of 31 photographs either taken or gathered by Margery Watson while she was employed at North American Aviation in Inglewood, California as a draftsperson between 1943-1945. The photographs are primarily small black-and-white snapshots that document NAA personnel adding a Merlin engine and performing engine tests on the prototype P-51 nicknamed "Baby" for United States Army Air Force ground crews. Some of the...
Dates:
circa 1940s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Rich Webb Boeing Collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2020-03-03
Content Description
The Rich Webb Boeing Collection is a small collection of items related to Boeing Company open houses in 1990-1991. There is one bumper sticker in the collection for a 1990 Renton plant open house. From a 1991 Renton plant open house celebrating 75 years of Boeing history, there are admission tickets for both 10 a.m - 1:30 p.m and 1:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. time slots as well as a set of ten trading cards featuring historic Boeing aircraft and products, such as the B&W floatplane, the B-29...
Dates:
1990-1991
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Raymond E. Weber Military Aviation Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2025-06-12
Contents of the Collection
The Raymond E. Weber Military Aviation Collection holds textual, visual, and audiovisual materials related to Weber's military service as a pilot from World War II until his retirement in 1970. Materials have been arranged chronologically. The bulk of the collection is textual items and are primarily military orders that cover the span of his military aviation career. The majority are grouped together, but some are grouped by Weber's assignment, such as "B-47 related" and "B-58...
Dates:
1942-1970, 2010
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Rita M. (Davoly) Webster WASP Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2024-05-01
Contents of the Collection
The Rita M. (Davoly) Webster WASP Collection is a small collection of mainly textual materials that pertains to Rita Davoly's World War II WASP career. The bulk of the materials is contemporaneous with her 1943-1944 service, although a small amount of items is retrospective in nature.World War II-era materials include Davoly's WASP military service records, identification cards, United States Army Air Forces diploma, a photocopy of the WASP songbook and General Hap Arnold's...
Dates:
1941-2010
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Maynard Wege World War II Photograph Collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2007-06-05
Contents of the Collection
The Maynard Wege World War II Photograph Collection is a small collection comprised of a single photo album page with six black-and-white photographs created by Maynard Wege, who served as a United States Army Air Force B-29 mechanic during the World War II Pacific Theatre. Photographs feature an image of a Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, an aerial photograph of Hiroshima in late August 1945, a disabled Japanese Mitsibishi J2M3 Raiden fighter found on an airfield near Tokyo, a B-29 squadron...
Dates:
1945
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2014-09-12
Overview
John Wegg is best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of Airliners and Airways magazines, as well as contributor to other publications and author of 12 books on aviation history, airlines, and aircraft manufacturers. The John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection consists of about 2.7 cubic feet of material such as printed ephemera, photographs, documents, and other materials pertaining to the Wegg's aviation journalism...
Dates:
1929-2004; Majority of material found within circa 1950s-1990s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Joseph F. Wehner Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2000-10-16-431
Abstract
The collection contains photographs and documents related to the life and World War I service of German-American Joseph Fritz Wehner (1895-1918). Wehner achieved Ace status and received the Distinguished Service Cross for his service in the 27th Aero Squadron before being killed in action.
Dates:
circa 1913-1979
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Ron Weisberg Elmer G. Cross photographs collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2018-10-01-A
Contents of the Collection
This small collection contains four (4) black-and-white photographs of Elmer Cross and relates to his airmail pilot career for Pitcairn Aviation during 1928. Each of the photographs are 8x10" and include information on the reverse. One photograph shows Cross seated in a partially obscured unidentified aircraft with another man standing next to the U.S. Mail plane. A handwritten caption on the reverse reads "Elmer G. Cross, 6/11/28, as he joins Pitcairn Aviation to fly U.S. mail."...
Dates:
1928
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
George H. E. Welford Battle of Britain Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2011-02-18
Contents of the Collection
The George H. E. Welford Battle of Britain Collection is comprised of textual and visual material, including log books, a photograph, scrapbooks, and photocopied documents, relating to Welford's service as a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during World War II and in the Battle of Britain. Materials are dated 1938-1945, 1990-1996 with the bulk of the materials being 1938-1945. The collection contains two pilot's log books used by Welford, 1938-1945. Entries typically include...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1938-1945; 1938-1945, 1990-1996
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives