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Don Brown Early Pacific Northwest Aviation Photograph Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2023-06-26
Content Description
The Don Brown Early Pacific Northwest Aviation Photograph Collection is a small collection of visual materials collected by Brown that feature various aviation personalities and aviation scenes in the Pacific Northwest region during the early 20th century. The main individuals represented are Vern C. Gorst, as well as two female aviators, Florence Seidell and Ruth Wightman. Aviation scenes includes images of crowds watching planes in flight, planes in flight over water, planes parked in...
Dates:
circa 1910s-1920s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Nat Browne Record Flight Attempt Photograph Album and Negatives
Collection
Identifier: 1987-09-22-E
Contents of the Collection
The Nat Browne Record Flight Attempt Photograph Album and Negatives is a small collection comprised of visual materials related to Nat Browne's May 30, 1932 attempt to fly solo from Seattle, Washington to Tokyo, Japan in his modified Fokker Universal "Lone Star." The photograph album contains 56 black-and-white 4x5-inch vintage prints taken by photographer Harry A. Kirwin at Boeing Field in Seattle. On the inside of the front cover of the album is the inscription: "Nat Brown and...
Dates:
1932 May 30
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Herbert Brucker Film
Collection — Box: Film Box 2, Reel: 1
Identifier: 2007-11-16-B
Contents of the Collection
The Herbert Brucker Film is a small collection containing one privately shot black-and-white film taken at Mitchell Field in Garden City, New York in 1927. The film is five minutes and 44 seconds long. The footage depicts several well-known aviation events and activities by famous aviators, such as Charles Lindbergh taking off in the "Spirit of St. Louis" for his transatlantic flight; the christening of "America," Richard E. Byrd's Fokker C-2; and James Doolittle performing...
Dates:
1927
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Martha L. (Smith) Bullock Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2003-09-08
Scope and Contents
The Martha L. (Smith) Bullock Collection is a small collection of items associated with Bullock's time as a Women Air Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II. The collection includes one folder of photographs and one folder of textual materials. The photographs, all black-and-white, are comprised of four (4) portraits of Bullock with planes and one image of a B-26 in flight over Dodge City, Kansas. The textual items include clippings documenting her flying career after World War II,...
Dates:
1944-1984
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Herman Butler World War I Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1985-12-27-A
Abstract
Herman Butler, originally of Belleville, Washington, served as a pilot during World War I and after with the U.S.A. School of Aerial Photography at Langley Field. The collection contains materials relating to the Butler's wartime and postwar service.
Dates:
circa 1917-1940s; Majority of material found within 1917-1920
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2009-06-05
Contents of the Collection
The Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection is comprised of primarily textual materials with some photographs that document Byron's commercial pilot career with Western Airlines and Delta Airlines. Materials date from mid-1940s through the 1980s.Textual materials include pilot logs dating from 1955-1987; organizational records for Western Airlines, including documents related to the merger of Western Airlines and Pacific Northern Airlines in 1967, as well as the merger of...
Dates:
circa 1940s-1980s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Mary "Pat" (Hiller) Call WASP Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2020-11-15
Content Description
The Mary "Pat" (Hiller) Call WASP Collection consists of materials relating to Call’s service as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) from 1942-1944. Materials are arranged alphabetically and span from 1939-2019 (bulk 1943-1980). The collection consists of about 0.6 cubic feet of material, including military records, licenses and membership cards, flight records and logbooks, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, and clippings. Correspondence in the collection includes...
Dates:
1939-2019
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Dave M. Carver Pilot Collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2023-11-03
Contents of the Collection
The Dave M. Carver Pilot Collection is a small collection consisting of textual materials related to Carver's career as a pilot with United Airlines. Included are a business card for him from his time as a United Captain and a program from his memorial service in 2018.
Dates:
circa 1960s-1980s, 2018
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
G. W. Charters Notebooks
Collection
Identifier: 2007-06-27-A
Abstract
The G. W. Charters Notebooks are comprised of three notebooks containing training notes of a World War I Army pilot.
Dates:
1918
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Emile Chourré and Chourré Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2015-06-17
Abstract
The Emile Chourré and Chourré Family Papers is comprised of documents and scrapbooks, photographic prints and photograph albums, and assorted ephemera primarily pertaining to the life and military career of Lieutenant Commander Emile Chourré (1894-1938). Major topics include Chourré's military service, especially while stationed in Coco Solo, Panama; his service as a U.S. Naval announcer for the 1929-1931 and 1933-1934 National Air Races; and family (immediate and extended) photographs.
Dates:
1889-1988; Majority of material found within 1920s-1950s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives