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William Frederick Barns U.S. Air Force Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-04-13
Abstract

William Frederick "Bill" Barns (1920-1995) joined the United States Air Force in 1942 and flew in the European Theater during World War II. After the war, Barns served in the USAF in several capacities until his retirement in 1966 when he went to work in the private sector, including for Garrett Corporation. The collection contains a broad array of textual materials as well as photographs and digital images related to his military and professional careers.

Dates: 1941 to 1990s

John Cook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-07-31
Abstract Born in Scotland, John Cook (1899-) was a mechanic who worked on the engines that powered the Douglas World Cruisers that completed the first circumnavigation of the globe by air. Cook also served in the military for thirty-six years and later was a Quality Control Inspector for the Air Force Aircraft program at Boeing. The collection contains photographs, slides, and textual materials primarily related to his time at Boeing as well as some photographs and documents related to his...
Dates: 1920-1986

Lee Embree Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-08-08
Abstract

Lee R. Embree (1915-2008) was born in Iowa, enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1936, and was assigned to the 38th Reconnaisance Squadron as an aerial photographer during World War II. Embree was at Hickam Field, Hawaii during the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing and took several photographs. The collection contains photographs, textual materials, audiovisual materials, and a scrapbook that relate to Embree's military service and photography as well as his post-war photography activities.

Dates: 1918-2005 (bulk dates 1939-1945)

James D. Griffin Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-08-25
Abstract

James D. Griffin was an engineer for McDonnell Douglas Corporation. The collection contains five hundred and ninety-six (596) photographs, likely collected and notated by Griffin, featuring primarily Douglas Aircraft Company airplanes manufactured during the 1910s-1970s but also, to a lesser extent, other manufacturer models; including Aero Spacelines, Boeing, Consolidated, and Northrop. There is also a small amount of clippings, newsletters, and articles.

Dates: circa 1910s-1970s; Majority of material found within ( dates 1920s-1950s)

Robert L. Simons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1998-05-05-B
Overview

Robert Lewis Simons was a military and commercial pilot in the mid-twentieth century. The Collection is comprised of materials relating to Simons’ career , including log books, military records, photographs, and films.

Dates: 1925-1972; Majority of material found within 1938-1948

James H. Smith Aviation Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-06-20
Overview

James Hamilton Smith (1913-2002) attended the Boeing School of Aeronautics and worked in the field of aviation as a government contractor for the Boeing Company, as well as the Defense Contract Administration Services. This small collection consists primarily of black-and-white photographs that were either taken or collected by Smith during his time at the Boeing School, as well as throughout his career in aviation, which spanned from the early 1930s to the late 1960s.

Dates: 1928-1965

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clippings (information artifacts) 4
photocopies 4
Douglas B-18 Family 3
Douglas DC-4 Experimental (DC-4E) 3
North American F-86 Sabre Family 3
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World War, 1939-1945 3
aerial photographs 3
military records 3
Aircraft accidents 2
Airports 2
Airships 2
Boeing B-47 Stratojet Family (Model 450) 2
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Family 2
Douglas DC-2 Family 2
Douglas DC-3 Family 2
Douglas Dolphin Family 2
Douglas X-3 Stiletto 2
Douglas XB-19 (XBLR-2) 2
Hawaii 2
Hickam Air Force Base (Hawaii) 2
Idaho 2
Los Angeles (Calif.) 2
Northrop A-17 (8A) Nomad 2
San Francisco (Calif.) 2
Seattle (Wash.) 2
Shanghai (China) 2
Washington (State) 2
booklets 2
compact discs 2
logs (records) 2
photograph albums 2
printed ephemera 2
8mm (photographic film size) 1
Aero Spacelines Super Guppy 1
Aeronautics, Commercial 1
Aichi D3A Val (Navy Type 99 Carrier Bomber) 1
Aids to air navigation 1
Air Force One (Presidential aircraft) 1
Air pilots 1
Air pilots, Military 1
Air shows 1
Aircraft cabins 1
Airlines 1
Airplane engines 1
Airplane occupants 1
Airplane racing 1
Airplanes -- Cockpits 1
Airplanes -- Design and construction 1
Airplanes -- Flight testing 1
Airplanes -- Formation flying 1
Airplanes, Military 1
Alaska 1
Arizona 1
Attack planes 1
Aviation ground crews 1
Bell X-5 1
Boats and boating 1
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Family 1
Boeing B-17 Model 299 Flying Fortress ("XB-17") 1
Boeing B-17C Flying Fortress 1
Boeing B-17D Flying Fortress 1
Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress 1
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress 1
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 1
Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Family (Model 367) 1
Boeing Company -- Employees 1
Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker 1
Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter Family 1
Boeing Model 247D 1
Boeing Model 314 Clipper Family 1
Boeing Model 707 Family 1
Boeing Model 747 Family 1
Boeing Model 80A 1
Boeing PW-9D (Model 15D) 1
Boeing VC-25A 1
Boeing XB-15 (Model 294, XBLR-1) 1
Boeing XB-52 Stratofortress 1
Boeing XP-12A (Model 101) 1
Boeing Y1B-17 Flying Fortress (Model 299B, YB-17, B-17) 1
Boeing YC-97 Stratofreighter 1
Bowlus (Hawley) XCG-7 1
British Aerospace Jetstream 31 1
Bush flying 1
Bush pilots 1
China 1
Commuter aircraft 1
Consolidated B-36 Family 1
Convair (XF-92) XP-92 (Ramjet Fighter Proposal) 1
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger Family 1
Convair F-106A Delta Dart 1
Curtiss B-2 Condor 1
Curtiss P-36 Hawk Family 1
Curtiss R4C-1 Condor 1
DVDs 1
Denali, Mount (Alaska) 1
Douglas 7B 1
Douglas A-20 Havoc 1
Douglas A-20A Havoc 1
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Trans World Airlines 3
Boeing 2
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "New Orleans" (#4) 2
North American 2
United States. Navy 2
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Akron (Airship) 1
American Airlines 1
Arizona (Battleship) 1
Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.) 1
Ascani, Fred J. (Fred John), 1917-2010 1
Barns, William Frederick, 1920-1995 1
Boeing School of Aeronautics (Oakland, Calif.) 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Cook, John, 1899- 1
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 1
Danilin, Sergei 1
Davis, David R., -1972 1
Doerflinger, Andy 1
Douglas Aircraft Company 1
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Boston" (#3) 1
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Chicago" (#2) 1
Douglas, Donald Wills, Sr., 1892-1981 1
Douglas, Donald, Jr. 1
Douglas, William 1
Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1
Embree, Lee 1
Eppright, G. J. 1
Garrett AiResearch 1
Graf Zeppelin (Airship) 1
Griffin, James D. 1
Gromov, M. (Mikhail), 1899-1985 1
Hawks, Frank, 1897-1938 1
Hinneman, Earl 1
Howard, Benjamin Odell 1
Jones, Lucious 1
KLM (Airline) 1
Kent, Harvey 1
Laudan, Fred P. 1
Law, Ruth, 1887-1970 1
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001 1
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
Lockheed 1
McDonnell Douglas Corp 1
Minter Field (Calif.) 1
Nagoya Airfield (Japan) 1
National Aeronautic Association (U.S.) 1
National Championship Air Races 1
Northrop 1
Northrop, John Knudsen, 1895-1981 1
Northwest Airlines Corporation 1
Ogden, Henry H., 1900-1986 1
Pan American World Airways, Inc 1
Pearl Harbor Survivors Association 1
Pearson Field (Vancouver, Wash.) 1
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935 1
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 1
Royal Hawaiian Hotel 1
Ryan, Tubal Claude, 1898-1982 1
Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines) 1
Simons, Robert L., 1905-1973 1
Springer, Eric 1
United Aircraft Corporation 1
United States. Air Force. Military Air Transport Service 1
United States. Air Force. Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 38th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 5th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 324th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 316th 1
United States. Army. Air Service 1
United States. Army. Signal Photographic Company, 161st 1
United States. Marine Corps 1
Wade, Leigh, 1896-1991 1
Western Air Express Corporation 1
Williams, Charles 1
Wilmington-Catalina Airlines 1
Yeager, Chuck, 1923-2020 1
Yumashev, Andrei 1
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