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John and Alan Blum Northwest Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-09-04
Abstract

The John and Alan Blum Northwest Aviation Collection consists of visual and textual materials related to the lives and careers of John and Alan Blum. John founded the Northwest Air Service Company and Alan served as President after his brother died in a plane crash in 1931.

Dates: 1921-1945

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

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

Signed Group Portrait of African American "Rosie the Riveters"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2018-00-00-24
Contents of the Collection The collection consists of a single black-and-white group portrait of eight (8) female African American Boeing assembly workers. It is likely the women worked at the Boeing Renton facility, circa 1940s. The women are posed in front of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress and each has signed the photograph with their name: Back row, left to right: Louise Williams, [illegible], Velma Glass Johnson, Florence Thomas; Front row, left to right: Katie Jeffries, Althea Skelton, Ella Mae, Mary...
Dates: circa 1940s

Rich Webb Boeing Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2020-03-03
Content Description The Rich Webb Boeing Collection is a small collection of items related to Boeing Company open houses in 1990-1991. There is one bumper sticker in the collection for a 1990 Renton plant open house. From a 1991 Renton plant open house celebrating 75 years of Boeing history, there are admission tickets for both 10 a.m - 1:30 p.m and 1:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. time slots as well as a set of ten trading cards featuring historic Boeing aircraft and products, such as the B&W floatplane, the B-29...
Dates: 1990-1991

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Baker, Mount (Wash.) 1
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Boeing B-1 (Model 6) 1
Boeing B-17 Model 299 Flying Fortress ("XB-17") 1
Boeing B-17C Flying Fortress 1
Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress 1
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress 1
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 1
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 1
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 1
Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Family (Model 367) 1
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Boeing Model 200 Monomail 1
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Waco (OH) CSO (Waco 225) (J-6-7-Powered Waco 10) (ATC #240) 1
Waco (OH) INF (ATC #345) 1
Waco (OH) QCF-2 (ATC #416) 1
Waco (OH) QDC (ATC #412) 1
Waco (OH) RNF (ATC #311) 1
Wichita (Kan.) 1
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World War, 1939-1945 1
admission tickets 1
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Names
Boeing 3
Boeing Company 2
King County International Airport 2
United States. Army. Air Service 2
Alaska-Washington Airways 1
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Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 1
Blum, Alan L., 1907-1994 1
Blum, Elizabeth 1
Blum, John R., 1905-1931 1
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 1
Bohrer, Walt 1
Bowman, Marti 1
Bryn Mawr Air Service 1
Buroker, Herb, 1895-1973 1
Clayton Scott Field (Renton, Wash.) 1
Cook, John, 1899- 1
Doerflinger, Andy 1
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Boston" (#3) 1
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Chicago" (#2) 1
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "New Orleans" (#4) 1
Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1
Eppright, G. J. 1
Foltz, Edith, 1902-1956 1
Fornasero, John B., 1904-1967 1
Fraser, James A. 1
Glass Flying Service (Alaska) 1
Glass, Donald A., 1904-1943 1
Hotchkiss, Perry F. "Pop", 1893 circa-1938 1
Irving, Wilbur 1
Jeffries, Katie 1
Johnson, Mary 1
Johnson, Velma Glass 1
Kent, Harvey 1
Lamson, Robert T., 1914-2011 1
Laudan, Fred P. 1
Luplow, Kenneth B., 1919- 1
Merrill, A. Elliott (Albert), 1901-1992 1
Meyring, Gene, 1904-1975 1
Mirow Air Service 1
Munter Aircraft Charter Service 1
Munter, Herbert, 1894-1970 1
National Aeronautic Association (U.S.) 1
Northwest Air Service 1
O'Donnell, Gladys 1
Ogden, Henry H., 1900-1986 1
Pacific Alaska Airways 1
Pennzoil Company 1
Phillips, Oliver R. 1
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935 1
Rankin, John Gilbert "Tex", 1894-1947 1
Reed, A.C. 1
Robbins, Robert M. 1
Rogers, Will, 1879-1935 1
Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 1
Skelton, Althea 1
Snohomish County Airport 1
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 1
Stinson, Thomas D., 1929-1949 1
Thomas, Florence 1
United Aircraft Corporation 1
United States. Air Force 1
United States. Army. Air Service. Aero Squadron, 91st 1
United States. Navy 1
Wade, Leigh, 1896-1991 1
Wien, Noel, 1899-1977 1
Williams, Charles 1
Williams, Louise 1
Winslow, Frances 1
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