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Alan Lonsdale Patterson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-08-03-A
Overview Alan Lonsdale Patterson worked extensively in the field of aviation from the 1920s to the 1980s. Throughout his career he worked as a barnstormer, pilot and established multiple companies that facilitated the sale of aircraft and aeronautical equipment, predominately between companies based in the United States and China. The collection represents both his professional and personal life through correspondence, photographs, business records, clippings and audiovisual materials, as well as...
Dates: 1876-2021; Majority of material found within 1920-1981

C. E. Roy U.S. Naval Aviation Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-02-19
Abstract

Carlyle Emerson Roy (b. 1890) served as a photographer at Key West Naval Air Station, Florida, during World War I. The collection contains an album of photographs and ephemera depicting U.S. Naval activities at the station.

Dates: 1890-1950; Majority of material found within 1917-1918

Kenneth C.R. Seal U.S. Naval Aviation Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2022-02-17
Content Description The Kenneth C.R. Seal U.S. Naval Aviation Collection is a small collection of textual and visual materials related to Seal's service in the U.S. Navy from about 1946-1959.The collection inlcludes one pilot's logbook dated 1949. However, the log only has one entry. The bulk of the collection conists of 48 photographs related to Seal's military service. While Seal served in Pensacola, Florida; Corpus Christi, Texas; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Okinawa, Japan, the majority of photographs...
Dates: circa 1949-1959

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

Bruce Whitman Aviation Art Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-04-16-A
Overview

The Bruce Whitman Aviation Art Collection is a collection of artwork including a drawing, posters, lithographs, photographs, and advertisements primarily related to American military aviation from about 1917 to the early 1950s.

Dates: circa 1917-1953

Robert Withrow Vietnam War Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-10-15
Abstract

Robert Withrow (b. 1946) was born in Seattle, Washington and served as a U.S. Navy Fireman (E-3) aboard the USS Kitty Hawk from 1965-1967. The collection contains photographs, patches, and yearbooks related to his service.

Dates: 1965-1967

Kenneth Woods Naval Aircraft Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box: Assorted oversize box 26, oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 1986-03-06-A
Contents of the Collection

The Kenneth Woods Naval Aircraft Photographs is a collection of twenty-two black-and-white photographs featuring United States Naval Aircraft, primarily floatplanes and flying boats from 1918-circa 1920s. The photographs are 18x22" and most do not have captions or identifying information. A variety of aircraft are featured, including the Vought OS2U Kingfisher, the Consolidated PBY Catalina, and the Curtiss SOC Seagull. The aircraft are pictured in flight and on the water.

Dates: 1918-1929

George T. Zimmer Ejection Seat Testing Photographs Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2006-06-15
Contents of the Collection The George T. Zimmer Ejection Seat Testing Photographs Collection consists of 112 photographs from the 1960s or 1970s related to aircraft ejection seat tests.The first folder of photographs includes 30 prints, one 4x5" and the rest 8x10". Twenty-eight are black-and-white prints and two are in color. These photographs depict United States Air Force ejection seat testing experiments, some labeled as taking place at the U.S. Naval Aerospace Recovery Facility in El Centro,...
Dates: circa 1960s-1970s

Glenn E. Zimmerman World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-10-16-307
Abstract

Glenn E. Zimmerman (1912-1993) served with the United States Navy as a pilot during World War II. The collection contains photographs, holiday greeting cards and menus, military records, and military identification card from his 1942-1946 military service.

Dates: 1942-1946

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photographic prints 18
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Washington (State) 4
correspondence 4
maps (documents) 4
photograph albums 4
slides (photographs) 4
8mm (photographic film size) 3
Air shows 3
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Aircraft carriers 3
Airplane racing 3
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Family 3
China 3
Curtiss N-9 3
Hawaii 3
Sailors 3
Shanghai (China) 3
Ships 3
United States -- Armed Forces -- Insignia 3
Vought F4U Corsair Family 3
Women air pilots 3
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logs (records) 3
negatives (photographs) 3
printed ephemera 3
Airlines 2
Airplane occupants 2
Airplanes -- Design and construction 2
Alaska 2
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Commuter aircraft 2
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Family 2
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Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 2
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Republic P-47 (F-47) Thunderbolt Family 2
Seattle (Wash.) 2
Stinson (Aircraft) L-5 Sentinel Family 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 2
aerial photographs 2
audiocassettes 2
blueprints (reprographic copies) 2
drawings (visual works) 2
notes (documents) 2
postcards 2
scrapbooks 2
Aces (Fighter pilots) 1
Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No 1 Red Wing 1
Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No 2 White Wing 1
Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No 3 Loon 1
Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No 4 Silver Dart 1
Aerial Experiment Association Cygnet II 1
Aeromarine 39-A 1
Aeromarine 39-B 1
Aeromarine 40 (40-F) 1
Aeronautics -- Antarctica. 1
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Aeronca K 1
Airdrop 1
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Boeing 2
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 2
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 2
Grumman (Bethpage, NY) 2
King County International Airport 2
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 2
Lockheed 2
National Championship Air Races 2
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" 2
Trans World Airlines 2
United States. Army 2
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 2
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps 2
United States. Marine Corps 2
Aerial Experiment Association 1
Aero Industries Corporation 1
Aiken, Joe, 1900-1969 (filmmaker) 1
Airservices Company Ltd. 1
Alaska Airlines 1
Allied Engineering Corporation 1
Allied International Company 1
American Airlines 1
Beachey, Lincoln J., 1887-1915 1
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 1
Bong, Richard Ira, 1920-1945 1
Brewster 1
Bristol Aeronautics Corporation 1
Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1st : 1928-1930) 1
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 1
Chenango (Ship) 1
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003 1
China Airmotive Company Fed. Inc. 1
China National Aviation Corporation 1
Church, Roy T., 1944-2021 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Cincinnati (Cruiser) 1
Consolidated Aircraft Corp 1
Consolidated Trading Company, Limited 1
Curtiss 1
Curtiss Airfield (Hempstead, N.Y.) 1
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 1
Daniel, Floyd R., 1919-2008 1
Dilonardo, James H., 1922-2000 1
Doherty, William E., 1886-1954 1
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 1
Embree, Lee 1
Eurasia Aviation Corporation 1
Fairchild 1
Fiji Airways 1
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
General Airplanes Corporation 1
Graf Zeppelin (Aircraft carrier) 1
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 1
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 333 (N) 1
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps 1
Great Britain. Royal Navy 1
Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition (1927) 1
Guynemer, Georges, 1894-1917 1
Herlofson, Walter 1
Hubbard, Edward, 1889-1928 1
Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976 1
Japan. Kaigun. Kōkūtai 1
Keast, Elizabeth S. 1
Kitty Hawk (Aircraft carrier) 1
Knechtel, Larry 1
Lambert, John W. (John William), 1929- 1
Law, Ruth, 1887-1970 1
Leigh, Frank C., 1920-1986 1
Lexington (Aircraft carrier : 1943-1991) 1
Lunar Orbiter (Artificial satellite) 1
McCurdy, John A. D., 1886-1961 1
Merrill, A. Elliott (Albert), 1901-1992 1
Merrill, Mildred E. (Filz), 1898-1980 1
Monks family 1
Monks, William 1
Mukden (Prisoner of war camp) 1
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964 1
New Mexico (Battleship) 1
North American 1
Northrop 1
Northwest Airlines Corporation 1
OX-5 Aviation Pioneers (Organization) 1
Ohio (Ship) 1
Orthman, William G., 1911-1990 1
Pan American World Airways, Inc 1
Patterson, Alan Lonsdale, 1900-1991 1
Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958 1
Red Aerea Mexicana, S.A. 1
Republic of China Air Force 1
Riddle, Mary, 1902-1981 1
Roy, C. E. (Carlyle Emerson) 1
Ryan Aeronautical Company 1
Saud, Faisal bin Salman 1
Scott, Clayton, 1905-2006 1
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