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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
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Early Tacoma Aviation Scrapbook
Collection — Box: Scrapbook Box 13
Identifier: 2018-00-00-102
Content Description
This small collection consists of one scrapbook containing photographs and clippings relating to early aviation in and around the Tacoma, Washington area. There are 19 clippings, primarily relating to Gustav W. Stromer including stories on his July 2, 1915 Tacoma to Port Angeles flight and ones on him and Jane O'Roark. There are 72 photographs, which are mostly unidentified. 34 photographs are related to aviation and include hydroaeroplanes and amphibious aircraft and...
Dates:
circa 1914-1920s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Terence R. Mitchell Collection of Aviation Trading Cards
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2015-12-01-A
Contents of the Collection
The Terence R. Mitchell Collection of Aviation Trading Cards is comprised of nearly 1,000 1910-1960s-era trading and cigarette cards, collected by Mitchell from the 1970s-2015. The cards are mainly from the United States, but some were produced in Australia, Great Britain, and New Zealand. Images on the cards in this collection are primarily aviation-related and feature aircraft. Aircraft depicted range widely from early aviation to jets. Also included to a lesser degree are other forms of...
Dates:
1910s-1960s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Ralph A. Newcomb Early California Aviation Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2023-08-30
Overview
Ralph A. Newcomb worked as an aviator and mechanic in the early 1900s, during the pioneering days of aviation in California. The collection dates from 1910 to 2006 and is predominantly comprised of photographic materials and a small number of textual documents collected by Newcomb during his time in the field of aviation.
Dates:
1910-1919, 2005-2006; Majority of material found within 1911-1919
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Roy A. Parsons Aerocar Film
Collection — Box: Film Box 5, Reel: 1
Identifier: 1992-01-11
Contents of the Collection
The Roy A. Parsons Aerocar Film is a small collection consisting of one privately shot 8mm film from 1968 of the Aerocar with inventor Molt Taylor demonstrating features of the aircraft. The footage, which was shot in Washington State, begins with the Aerocar III (N100D) in its car configuration, towing its folded wing attachment. Taylor and an unidentified man then convert the Aerocar to its plane configuration and take off from an unidentified airfield. The Aerocar is shown in...
Dates:
circa 1968
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Jake Schultz Aerocar Film Collection
Collection — Box: Film Box 5, Reel: 1
Identifier: 2006-10-12
Contents of the Collection
The Jake Schultz Aerocar Film Collection is a small collection consisting of one film related to Molt Taylor and the Aerocar III (N100D), circa 1968. The footage includes multiple segments. The first segment depicts Taylor and others on a rocky shoreline at Cape Disappointment, Washington; the Cape Disappointment lighthouse is visible in some shots. The footage then transitions to an unidentified airfield, where Taylor is shown with the Aerocar III. Scenes include the Aerocar...
Dates:
1968
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives