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Wilhelm Böing letters

 Collection — Box: Assorted Rare Collections Box 1, Folder: 1-6
Identifier: 2018-00-00-154
Contents of the Collection

The collection contains six handwritten letters ranging from February 26, 1869 to April 18, 1883 between William E. Boeing, Sr. (WEB) and his father, Wilhelm Böing. It is not always clear who is writing to whom in the letters, since father and son shared the same name. Additionally, not all of the letters have accompanying envelopes which could provide clarification based on the address. The letters are in German and have not been translated.

Dates: 1869-1883

Dorothy Elizabeth (Baker) Bond World War I Poster Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-04-29-1
Overview

Dorothy Elizabeth (Baker) Bond was a Seattleite who supported the World War I homefront effort by selling war bonds and campaigning for the Red Cross. The collection consists of nearly 250 illustrated posters and broadsides that Bond collected during her work selling war bonds. The posters, which date from 1914-1919, were produced by various government agencies and non-profit organizations to promote military enlistment, fundraising campaigns, and homefront efforts supporting of the war.

Dates: circa 1914-1920

Clarence A. Borley U.S. Naval Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-07-20
Abstract

Clarence A. Borley (1924-2019) was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and ace. The collection documents Borley's 36-year military career as a pilot and fighter ace in the U.S. Navy and consists of textual, visual and audiovisual materials and primarily dates from 1942 to 1968, with some later dates and a small amount of personal materials.

Dates: 1942-1999, 2015; Majority of material found within 1942-1968

Hans Carl Borm Annotated B-29 Gunner's Information File

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2026-00-00--18
Content Description The Hans Carl Borm Annotated B-29 Gunner's Information File is a single-item collection consisting of a B-29 Gunner's information file (manual) with notes and illustrations by Borm from his military service during World War II.The volume is a standard-issue gunner's training manual published by General Electric circa 1944. Of particular interest are the memo pages at the end of the manual which contain Borm's personal annotations. Two pages contain...
Dates: circa 1945

Joseph A. Bossi Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1988-03-03-A
Abstract

The Joseph A. Bossi served as a sergeant in the 162nd Aero Squadron during World War I. The collection contains an event program and postcard relating to Bossi's service in Europe.

Dates: circa 1918

Raymond L. Bouas Braniff Airways Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2024-01-08
Contents of the Collection The Raymond L. Bouas Braniff Airways Collection contains primarily textual materials relevant to the career of Raymond L. Bouas, a pilot with Braniff Airways from 1957 to 1989. The collection has been divided into two series: Military and reserve service and Professional career. Due to its size, Professional career has been further divided into subseries. Materials are arranged chronologically within series with undated materials at the end.The first series, ...
Dates: 1947-2014

Bernard Bourrand Sketchbook

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2022-10-06
Content Description The Bernard Bourrand Sketchbook is a single-item collection: a bound volume full of drawings and sketches by French artist Bernard Bourrand, dating to 1947-1951. The illustrations depict aircraft, automobiles and other forms of transportation, the majority of which are experimental models. Also among the illustrations are other "Atomic Age" futuristic designs. The volume is a record book with paginated ruled pages. Each page has multiple drawings by Bourrand primarily in...
Dates: 1947-1951

Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-08-09
Contents of the Collection The Lewis Paul Bowers World War II Collection is comprised of photographs and various textual materials, including military records, orrders, certificates, and correspondence, primarily related to the World War II experience of Lewis Paul Bowers, a flight navigator on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator ("Rude Nude") of the 307th Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force. There are also some items related to post-war activities as well as personal and family materials. The bulk of the collection...
Dates: 1932-2012; Majority of material found within 1942-1946

Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-03-31
Overview

Peter M. Bowers (1918-2003) was an aeronautical engineer at The Boeing Company for 36 years but was more noted as an aviation historian who wrote several dozen books and close to 900 articles on aircraft. This collection is notable for the approximately 150,000 photographic images he amassed during his career, as well as his writing and research files. The materials span the early 1900s to 2003.

Dates: circa 1900s-2003

Clayton D. Bowyer B-29 bomb door installation notebook

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2019-03-20
Overview

The Clayton D. Bowyer B-29 bomb door installation notebook is a small spiral notebook with handwritten notes regarding the installation of bomb doors on B-29s during World War II.

Dates: circa 1939-1945

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photographic prints 464
clippings (information artifacts) 200
World War, 1939-1945 196
printed ephemera 182
correspondence 173
certificates 110
Air pilots, Military 108
logs (records) 108
Air pilots 88
Airlines 82
World War, 1914-1918 80
photocopies 80
Airplanes, Military 79
military records 78
booklets 76
negatives (photographs) 75
Flight attendants 67
scrapbooks 63
postcards 62
brochures 59
slides (photographs) 59
Soldiers 56
photograph albums 56
Aircraft accidents 54
Boeing Company -- Employees 54
identity cards 54
aerial photographs 53
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
orders (military records) 39
posters 39
France 38
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area 38
photographic postcards 38
articles 34
technical reports 34
notebooks 33
Airplanes -- Design and construction 32
digital prints 32
newsletters 32
Boeing Model 747 Family 31
technical drawings 31
Fighter pilots 30
programs (documents) 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 23
Aeronautics, Commercial 22
California 22
16mm (photographic film size) 21
Air mail service 21
Boeing Model 707 Family 21
advertisements 21
Airplanes -- Flight testing 20
Biplanes 20
Bombing, Aerial 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
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
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 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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