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Elsie Anderson Boeing Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1997-04-17-A
Abstract

Elsie Anderson worked at Boeing Company as a Public Relations representative, circa 1940s-1950s. The collection includes negatives, films, photographic prints, and a small amount of textual materials related to Boeing aircraft and test flights occurring during the 1940s-1950s.

Dates: circa 1940s-1950s

John Fornasero Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-06-24
Abstract:

The John Fornasero Papers are comprised of documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera pertaining to the life and work of flight instructor, aviation inspector, and test pilot John B. Fornasero. A significant portion of this collection is made up of photographs. Major topics include the Ryan School of Aeronautics, the Civil Aeronautics Administration, Fairchild Aircraft Company, and Boeing Aircraft Company.

Dates: 1904-2006

Don Gray Northwest Airlines Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1995-04-27
Contents of the Collections

The collection is comprised of a Northwest Airlines Souvenir Flight Packet containing tickets, timetables, brochures, route maps, decal, postcards, and assorted travel receipts. Packet was received during a Northwest Airlines flight between New York and Seattle in July, 1954. Most of the brochures and postcards feature a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser.

Dates: 1954

Theodore Jay Johnston Boeing Aircraft Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-04-22-A
Abstract

Theodore Jay Johnston (1923-2013) was born in Olympia, Washington and was a pilot with the Eighth Air Force (398th Heavy Bomb Group) during World War II. After the war, Johnston spent 37 years at Boeing, workings on a variety of projects, including the Boeing B-47 Stratojet and Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. The collection contains slides and technical documentation related to Johnston's personal history with the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the Boeing B-47 Stratojet.

Dates: 1942-2002 ; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1953

Kenneth B. Luplow Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2015-05-20
Content Description The Kenneth B. Luplow Collection is a small collection consisting of a logbook and notebook dating to Luplow's time working for Boeing in the 1940s. The logbook spans 1941-1946, and documents Luplow's role as flight engineer on many first flights, including the XB-29 and XC-97 and XPBB-1. Other test flights documented include ones for B-17 variants. Test pilots documented in the log include J.B. Fornasero, Elliott Merrill, A.C. Reed, Edmund T. Allen, Robert Lamson, J.A. Fraser,...
Dates: 1941 - circa 1949

Henry S. McMurray Logbooks and Military Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2011-07-28
Contents of the Collection The Henry S. McMurray Logbooks and Military Records contains logbooks, military records, and an autobiographical DVD that document the career of pilot Henry S. McMurray from 1937-2011. The materials cover McMurray's training as an Aviation Cadet, his service in Europe with the Eighth Air Force during World War II, and his careers as a commercial pilot with United Airlines and as a production test pilot with Boeing. The bulk of the collection is comprised of nine logbooks dating...
Dates: 1940s-2011

Desiree "Jerry" Clifford Michaud and Thelma Irene McGraw Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-11-01
Abstract

Jerry Michaud (1924-1982) Michaud served in the United States Navy during World War II as a Naval pilot in the Pacific Theater. Thelma McGraw (1920-1996) She worked as a stewardess with United Airlines (UAL). The collection contains textual materials, black-and-white photographs, and ephemera associated with their 1942-1952 naval and commercial airline careers, respectively.

Dates: 1938-1980; Majority of material found within 1940s

Alex R. Polson Northwest Orient Airlines Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1989-07-06-A
Contents of the Collection The Alex R. Polson Northwest Orient Airlines Collection is a small collection comprised of textual marketing materials from Northwest Airlines and Northwest Orient Airlines, collected between 1948-1956. Included are a souvenir Flight Kit, maps, postcards, and brochures. There are also timetables with fares for various routes, predominantly for service to Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, and China. Materials feature several aircraft that began commercial service in the late 1940s, including the Boeing...
Dates: 1948-1956

United Air Lines Hawaiian Mainliner Passenger List

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2017-00-00-4
Content Description

The United Air Lines Hawaiian Mainliner Passenger List is a small collection consisting of a single item: a passenger list for United Air Lines' inaugural flight of the Hawaiian Mainliner Stratocruiser dated January 15, 1950. There are 54 passengers listed as well as the Cpatain R.L. Wagner, Stewardesses Phyllis Chase and Hazle Spencer and Steward CLement Keliikipi.

Dates: 1950 January 15

Harold W. Zipp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-11-12
Abstract

Harold W. Zipp was an engineer at the Boeing Company for forty years. The collection documents his career, particularly his tenure in Wichita, Kansas, with diaries, photographs and other documents.

Dates: circa 1930-1971; Majority of material found within 1930-1951

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Boeing Company 3
Fornasero, John B., 1904-1967 3
Lamson, Robert T., 1914-2011 3
Merrill, A. Elliott (Albert), 1901-1992 3
United Airlines 3
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United States. Air Force 3
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 2
Boeing 2
Luplow, Kenneth B., 1919- 2
Northwest Airlines Corporation 2
Northwest Airlines, Inc. 2
Reed, A.C. 2
Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 2
United States. Army Air Forces 2
United States. Navy 2
Allen, William M., 1900-1985 1
Anderson, Elsie 1
Antietam (Aircraft carrier) 1
Argentina. Armada 1
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 1
Blaine, Charles E., 1916-1943 1
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 1
Brackin, Harl V. 1
Brazil. Fôrça Aérea Brasileira 1
Cochran, Jacqueline, 1906-1980 1
Cuba. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias 1
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 1
Fairchild Aircraft Company (Hagerstown, Md.) 1
Fornasero, Elouise D. 1
Fraser, James A. 1
Frazier, Jim 1
Great Lakes (1929) 1
Hamilton Field (Calif.) 1
Johnson, Philip G. (Philip Gustav), 1894-1944 1
Johnston Atoll Airport (United States Minor Outlying Islands) 1
Johnston, A.M. (Alvin M.) 1
King County International Airport 1
Knoll 1
Levy, David "Deed" 1
Légion d'honneur (France) 1
Martin, Ed 1
McMurray, Henry S., 1921-2021 1
Michael, Marvin 1
Michaud, Desiree "Jerry" Clifford, 1924-1982 1
Michaud, Thelma Irene (McGraw), 1920-1996 1
Milliken, William F., 1911-2012 1
Osler, Edward Scott, 1918-1949 1
Rheem Manufacturing Company 1
Robbins, Robert M. 1
Ryan School of Aeronautics 1
Ryan, Tubal Claude, 1898-1982 1
Schaefer, Julius E. 1
Short, Mac 1
Snohomish County Airport 1
Stearman (1927) 1
Stearman, Lloyd, 1898-1975 1
Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield), 1915-2007 1
Townsend, Guy M., 1920-2011 1
Trans World Airlines 1
United States. Air Force. Far East Air Forces 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 20th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Service Command 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group, 398th 1
United States. Army. European Theater of Operations 1
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 1
United States. Department of Defense 1
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1
Wells, Edward C., 1910-1986 1
Wersebe, Edward I., 1914-1943 1
Whitehead, Ennis Clement, 1895-1964 1
Wilson, T. A. (Thornton Arnold), 1921-1999 1
Zimmerman, John 1
Zipp, Harold W., 1906-1991 1
Zweigart, Charles 1
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