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1910 Los Angeles Air Meet newspaper clippings

 Collection — Box: Scrapbook Box 7
Identifier: 2019-00-00-2
Contents of the Collection

The collection is one (1) scrapbook of assorted newspaper clippings related to the 1910 International Air Meet at Dominguez Field in Los Angeles, California. The scrapbook is coverless with a failing binding. The clippings are from assorted unidentified newspapers and are glued to the pages, though some are loose.

It is unknown who collected the clippings.

Dates: 1910

Elaine P. Austin Northwest Orient Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2013-05-07
Contents of the Collection The Elaine P. Austin Northwest Orient Airlines (NWA) Flight Attendant Collection is relatively small and comprised of primarily textual materials with some photographs. The bulk of the material was collected by Austin during her flight attendant career with Northwest Orient Airlines from 1960-1965.Textual materials include a large amount of stewardess training materials, including instructions for various safety procedures, aircraft layouts, and assorted work sheets from stewardess...
Dates: 1922-1961; Majority of material found within 1959-1961

Maud T. Bartles Jim Lovell Scrapbook

 Collection — Box: Scrapbook box 37, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: 2022-10-28
Content Description The Maud T. Bartles Jim Lovell Scrapbook is a collection consisting of a single item: an album documenting a visit by astronaut Jim Lovell to Poughkeepsie, New York in 1973 for a Veteran's Day event. The scrapbook includes clippings, ephemera, photographs and philatelic items collected by Maud T. Bartles, a resident of the area who attended the event during Lovell's visit. The album is a "magnetic" style photograph album with a green cover with "Capt. J. Lovell" written on the...
Dates: 1969-1973, 2016

The Becvar Family Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-07-24
Abstract

George Becvar (1909-1990) was born in Denver, Colorado and with his brothers Lou (1908-1984) and Chuck (1904-1986) started Kent Flying Service which ran from approximately 1927-1930 in Kent, Washington. The collection consists of the pilot logbook for George Becvar and a scrapbook that primarily covers George Becvar's 1927-1931 flying career.

Dates: 1927-1990

Francis H. Bennett World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-00-00-2
Contents of the Collection The Francis H. Bennett World War II Collection relates to Bennett's training and career in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, circa 1943-1945. It consists of primarily textual materials, including a graduation announcement, an Air Medal award citation, correspondence, military newsletters, printed ephemera, three pages from a scrapbook, and an original poem by Bennett. There is also a photographic portrait of Captain Francis H. Bennett in his Army Air Force uniform. Additionally,...
Dates: circa 1943-1945

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

Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-03-31
Overview

Peter M. Bowers (1918-2003) was an aeronautical engineer at The Boeing Company for 36 years but was more noted as an aviation historian who wrote several dozen books and close to 900 articles on aircraft. This collection is notable for the approximately 150,000 photographic images he amassed during his career, as well as his writing and research files. The materials span the early 1900s to 2003.

Dates: circa 1900s-2003

Frank D. Browning World War II Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2021-05-04
Contents of the Collection The Frank D. Browning World War II Collection pertains to Browning's service as a navigator and bombardier with the 490th Bomb Squadron in the China India Burma Theater during World War II. Most of the items are dated 1942-1947, with some later dates. Materials include military records, including Browning's military business cards and a conduct guidelines sheet; a partially filled notebook, maps of China and select United States cities, photocopies of clippings and printed ephemera likely...
Dates: 1942-1947, 1952-1953, 1983, 1994-1999

Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2009-06-05
Contents of the Collection The Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection is comprised of primarily textual materials with some photographs that document Byron's commercial pilot career with Western Airlines and Delta Airlines. Materials date from mid-1940s through the 1980s.Textual materials include pilot logs dating from 1955-1987; organizational records for Western Airlines, including documents related to the merger of Western Airlines and Pacific Northern Airlines in 1967, as well as the merger of...
Dates: circa 1940s-1980s

Emile Chourré and Chourré Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-06-17
Abstract

The Emile Chourré and Chourré Family Papers is comprised of documents and scrapbooks, photographic prints and photograph albums, and assorted ephemera primarily pertaining to the life and military career of Lieutenant Commander Emile Chourré (1894-1938). Major topics include Chourré's military service, especially while stationed in Coco Solo, Panama; his service as a U.S. Naval announcer for the 1929-1931 and 1933-1934 National Air Races; and family (immediate and extended) photographs.

Dates: 1889-1988; Majority of material found within 1920s-1950s

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Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 4
Museum of Flight (Seattle, Wash.) 4
Pan American World Airways, Inc. 4
Rankin, John Gilbert "Tex", 1894-1947 4
Trans World Airlines 4
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 4
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) 3
King County International Airport 3
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Rankin School of Flying 3
Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 3
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 3
Townsend, Guy M., 1920-2011 3
United States. Army 3
Air Line Pilots Association 2
Alaska Airlines 2
American Fighter Aces Association 2
Apollo 1 (Spacecraft) 2
Apollo 12 (Spacecraft) 2
Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) 2
Apollo 14 (Spacecraft) 2
Apollo 15 (Spacecraft) 2
Apollo 16 (Spacecraft) 2
Apollo 17 (Spacecraft) 2
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 2
Bohrer, Walt 2
Bowers, Peter M., 1918-2003 2
Cochran, Jacqueline, 1906-1980 2
Delta Air Lines 2
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 2
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 2
Flying Tiger Line 2
Foltz, Edith, 1902-1956 2
Fornasero, John B., 1904-1967 2
Hennings, Tandy Cook 2
Jeppesen, Elrey B. (Elrey Borge), 1907-1996 2
Johnston, A.M. (Alvin M.) 2
Lear, William P. (William Powell), 1902-1978 2
Marsalis, Frances Harrell, d. 1934 2
National Aeronautic Association (U.S.) 2
National Championship Air Races 2
North American 2
Northwest Airlines, Inc. 2
Osler, Edward Scott, 1918-1949 2
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935 2
Quiet Birdmen 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 2
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" 2
Ryan, Tubal Claude, 1898-1982 2
Skylab Program 2
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th 2
United States. Army. Air Service 2
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces 2
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 2
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2
Varney Air Lines 2
Western Airlines 2
Wilson, T. A. (Thornton Arnold), 1921-1999 2
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) 2
Aer Lingus 1
Aerocar, Inc 1
Aircraft Industries 1
Akron (Airship) 1
Alaska Central Air 1
Alaska-Washington Airways 1
Aldrin, Buzz 1
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 1
Allen, William M., 1900-1985 1
Althaus, J. K. von 1
American Airlines 1
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 1
American Railway Express Agency 1
American Red Cross 1
Anders, William A. (William Alison), 1933- 1
Apollo 10 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 6 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo Soyuz Test Project 1
Arizona (Battleship) 1
Arkansas (Battleship) 1
Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.) 1
Armstrong, John H. 1
Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012 1
Ascani, Fred J. (Fred John), 1917-2010 1
Atcherley, Richard Llewellyn Roger 1
Attilio Orazio de Bernardi, Mario Bernardo, 1893-1959 1
Austin, Elaine P. 1
Auton, Jesse D. 1
Bartles, Maud T., 1915-2006 1
Bayles, Lowell Richard 1
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 1
Bean, Alan, 1932-2018 1
Becvar, Chuck, Jr., 1904-1986 1
Becvar, George, 1906-1990 1
Becvar, Lou, 1908-1984 1

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