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William Dummer Powell World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-05-30
Abstract

William Dummer Powell was born in about 1906 in Canada, became a United States citizen in 1935 and served in the Army Air Force 449th Bomb Group as a Staff Sergeant during World War II. The collection consists of a small amount of military documents, personal documents, and twenty-five (25) photographs primarily related to Powell's World War II service in the Army Air Force.

Dates: circa 1939-1980s

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

Walt Sobol Photographs and Negatives

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-10-02
Content Description The Walt Sobol Photographs and Negatives is a collection comprised of 2,169 black-and-white photographic prints and 1,193 photographic negatives taken by Sobol during his career in aircraft manufacturing in China, Burma, India and the U.S. from the late 1920s through 1950s. The photographs are a mix of personal images, scenes of daily life in the various places he traveled, and documentation of the aircraft manufacturing industry in Missouri, China and India.The photographs are...
Dates: 1926-1959

Space Exploration Posters and Lithographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-00-00-125
Abstract

The Space Exploration Posters and Lithographs Collection is an artifical collection consisting of oversize textual and visual materials relating to aerospace, rocketry, astronauts, and the National Air and Space Administration (NASA), ranging from 1961-2006.

Dates: 1961-2006

John Sylvester Wheelwright World War I Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-10-30
Abstract

The collection consists of materials related to the World War I career of John "Jack" Sylvester Wheelwright (1885-1962), who was a textile designer, engineer and naval commander and served on airships in the Royal Naval Air Service.

Dates: circa 1907-1943; Majority of material found within 1914-1918

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certificates 5
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photograph albums 4
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Washington (State) 3
drawings (visual works) 3
logs (records) 3
negatives (photographs) 3
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Air shows 2
Airplane racing 2
Airplanes -- Design and construction 2
Airports 2
Alaska 2
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Family 2
Boeing Model 247D 2
Buildings -- War damage 2
Chengdu (China) 2
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Family 2
Fighter pilots 2
Fleet (Canada) Model 1 2
Grumman F6F Hellcat Family 2
Hankou (Wuhan, China) 2
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Kunming Shi (China) 2
Manila (Philippines) 2
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North American BT-9/BT-14 Family 2
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World War, 1914-1918 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area 2
Wuchang Qu (Wuhan Shi, China) 2
Yangtze River (China) 2
booklets 2
correspondence 2
de Havilland (Airco) D.H.4 2
menus 2
military records 2
scrapbooks 2
short snorter 2
16mm (photographic film size) 1
8mm (photographic film size) 1
Adak Island (Alaska) 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
Aeronautics -- Antarctica. 1
Aeronautics, Commercial 1
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Airlines 1
Airplane factories 1
Airplane occupants 1
Airplanes -- Formation flying 1
Airplanes -- Fuselage 1
Airplanes -- Maintenance and repair 1
Aleutian Islands (Alaska) 1
Anqing Shi (China) 1
Arizona 1
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Arrowing A-2 Chummy 1
Artificial satellites 1
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Astronautics 1
Astronautics -- Soviet Union 1
Astronautics and state -- United States 1
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Autogiros 1
Automobiles 1
Aviation ground crews 1
Beachey Little Looper 1
Beardmore W.B.III 1
Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 (Pacemaker 400) 1
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Aerojet-General Corporation 1
Aiken, Joe, 1900-1969 (filmmaker) 1
Aldrin, Buzz 1
American Eagle Aircraft Corp. 1
Apollo Soyuz Test Project 1
Barling 1
Barr, Effie Hortense, 1904-1985 1
Barr, Gene Edward, 1933- 1
Barr, JoAnn, 1930- 1
Barr, Julius A., 1905-1939 1
Beachey, Lincoln J., 1887-1915 1
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 1
Bellanca 1
Bennett, C. 1
Boeing Company 1
Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1st : 1928-1930) 1
Calle, Paul, 1928-2010 1
Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 1
Cole, Frank 1
Convair 1
Cooper, Gordon, 1927-2004 1
Cruz, Joe 1
Curtiss Airfield (Hempstead, N.Y.) 1
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 1
Doherty, William E., 1886-1954 1
Donald, William Henry, 1875-1946 1
Elder, James C. 1
Essex (Aircraft carrier) 1
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
Goddard, Robert Hutchings, 1882-1945 1
Graf Zeppelin (Aircraft carrier) 1
Great Britain. Royal Naval Air Service 1
Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition (1927) 1
Guo min ge ming jun 1
Guynemer, Georges, 1894-1917 1
Hindustan Aircraft, ltd 1
Hoffman Field (N.C.) 1
Hughes, Bob 1
Independence (Aircraft carrier : CV-22) 1
Jensen, Al H. 1
Jensen, Irene 1
John F. Kennedy Space Center 1
Keast, Elizabeth S. 1
Kitty Hawk (Aircraft carrier) 1
Krainukov, George 1
Law, Ruth, 1887-1970 1
Leonard, Royal 1
Lexington (Aircraft carrier : 1943-1991) 1
Li-tzu, Shao 1
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
Lindsay, Elvin Lester 1
Lunar Orbiter (Artificial satellite) 1
Ma, Hongbin, 1884-1960 1
Marshall Flying School 1
McCabe, Mike 1
McCurdy, John A. D., 1886-1961 1
Mennella, Bruce E., 1946- 1
Mennella, Louise A. (Vacca) 1
Muskogee Army Airfield (Oklahoma) 1
Nachi (Cruiser) 1
Nagoya Airfield (Japan) 1
Nan-Hu Field (Wuchang, China) 1
Nicholas-Beazley 1
Northcott, Jack D. 1
Northwest Airlines Corporation 1
Pettigrew, Pete 1
Pizten, John R., 1934-1972 1
Poindexter, Ray 1
Powell, William Dummer 1
Project Apollo (U.S.) 1
Republic of China Air Force 1
Rockwell International 1
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" 1
Sikorsky 1
Simons, Robert L., 1905-1973 1
Smith, Elinor 1
Smith, Ted A. 1
Sobol, Walt, 1901-1993 1
Soviet Union. Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily 1
Stoll, Pete 1
Takasumi, Fred 1
Taylor, Robert 1
Trans World Airlines 1
United Aircraft Corporation. Hamilton Standard Division 1
United States Junior Chamber of Commerce (1920-1965) 1
United States. Air Force 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Army Air Forces 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 15th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group, 449th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Liaison Squadron, 158th 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Liaison Squadron, 72nd 1
United States. Army. Air Corps 1
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1
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