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Joe Aiken Films

 Collection — Box: Film Box 4, Reel: 1-6
Identifier: 1998-12-28
Contents of the Collection The Joe Aiken Films are comprised of six films shot, produced, or compiled by Joe Aiken of 20th Century Fox Studio, from approximately 1918-1947. The films contain a mix of newsreel footage, documentary footage of aircraft manufacturing, and flight footage. Three of the films contain footage of World War I flying aces, flying squadrons, World War I-era aircraft, and transatlantic flight attempts. One of the films contains newsreel footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II and the...
Dates: circa 1918-1950s

Gene M. Allred Air-Navigation Workbook

 Collection — Box: Assorted oversize box 20, oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 2022-00-00-105
Content Description The Gene M. Allred Air-Navigation Workbook is a small collection consisting of a single item: the Air-navigation workbook: pre-flight--primary training manual used by Allred at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School, at St. May's College in California in 1943. The workbook was published by the Aviation Training Division, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air) U.S. Navy and consists of position plotting sheets, sheets of graph paper, logs, and a star finder and...
Dates: 1943

American Fighter Aces Association Oral Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-02-13-1139
Abstract

Collection of approximately one hundred twenty (120) oral histories of Fighter Aces and several non-aces, including relatives of aces, other military pilots, and military historians.

Dates: circa 1960s-1990s

Army Air Corps Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 1993-12-02
Abstract

The Army Air Corps Photographs is comprised of fifty-nine black-and-white photographs primarily depicting the 1923 Pulitzer Air Race and Mitchell Trophy Race with ten snapshots featuring the Sacramento Air Depot in 1940.

Dates: 1923, 1940

Elmer A. Ball World War II Negatives

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-06-30
Content Description The Elmer A. Ball World War II Negatives is a collection of 184 photographic negatives taken by Ball during his service with the U.S. Navy, much of which took place in Guam during the later years of World War II. The negatives are all medium format black-and-white negatives, except for one color transparency. They were not organized in any particular manner.The images depict a variety of people, activities, and buildings in and around Naval Air Station Agana on Guam from roughly...
Dates: circa 1944-1950

David F. Beyl and Donald D. Beyl Logbooks

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2009-09-22
Contents of the Collection The David F. Beyl and Donald D. Beyl log books is a small collection of nine (9) United States Naval Aviator and civilian pilot logbooks belonging to brothers David and Donald Beyl, ranging from 1943-1987. Four (4) of the logbooks belonged to David D. Beyl and span approximately from 1954 to 1978, covering David's US Navy service. The other five (5) logbooks belonged to his brother, Donald F. Beyl, and cover his military and civilian flight history, ranging from 1943-1987. ...
Dates: 1943-1987; Majority of material found within 1950s-1960s

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

William E. Boeing Sr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-10-06-B
Abstract

William E. Boeing, Sr. (1881-1956) was an aviation pioneer and founded The Boeing Company in 1916. The collection holds textual materials, such as correspondence, philately, business-related materials, clippings, and ephemera, as well as photographs and illustrations related to his personal and business life, circa 1783-2008. Major areas of interest include family photographs and extensive personal and business-related correspondence.

Dates: circa 1783-2008; Majority of material found within 1900s-1930s

Dorothy Elizabeth (Baker) Bond World War I Poster Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-04-29-1
Overview

Dorothy Elizabeth (Baker) Bond was a Seattleite who supported the World War I homefront effort by selling war bonds and campaigning for the Red Cross. The collection consists of nearly 250 illustrated posters and broadsides that Bond collected during her work selling war bonds. The posters, which date from 1914-1919, were produced by various government agencies and non-profit organizations to promote military enlistment, fundraising campaigns, and homefront efforts supporting of the war.

Dates: circa 1914-1920

Clarence A. Borley U.S. Naval Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-07-20
Abstract

Clarence A. Borley (1924-2019) was a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and ace. The collection documents Borley's 36-year military career as a pilot and fighter ace in the U.S. Navy and consists of textual, visual and audiovisual materials and primarily dates from 1942 to 1968, with some later dates and a small amount of personal materials.

Dates: 1942-1999, 2015; Majority of material found within 1942-1968

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slides (photographs) 9
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Seattle (Wash.) 8
identity cards 8
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newsletters 7
photocopies 7
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business cards 5
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Hong Kong (China) 4
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Naval Air Station Corpus Christi (Tex.) 4
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Okinawa Island (Japan) 4
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San Francisco (Calif.) 4
United States -- Armed Forces -- Insignia 4
aeronautical charts 4
blueprints (reprographic copies) 4
brochures 4
digital prints 4
drawings (visual works) 4
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open reel audiotapes 4
personnel records 4
posters 4
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Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 3
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 3
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Germany. Luftwaffe 3
Graf Zeppelin (Airship) 3
King County International Airport 3
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 3
Lockheed 3
Shenandoah (Airship) 3
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 3
United States. Army. Air Service 3
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps 3
Akron (Airship) 2
Allen, William M., 1900-1985 2
American Fighter Aces Association 2
Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) 2
Associated Women Pilots of Boeing Field 2
Bohrer, Walt 2
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 2
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 2
Coats, Robert Charles, 1918-2011 2
Douglas, Donald Wills, Sr., 1892-1981 2
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 2
Essex (Aircraft carrier) 2
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 2
Grumman (Bethpage, NY) 2
Hubbard, Edward, 1889-1928 2
John F. Kennedy Space Center 2
Kitty Hawk (Aircraft carrier) 2
Lexington (Aircraft carrier : 1943-1991) 2
Lunar Orbiter (Artificial satellite) 2
McCook Field (Ohio) 2
Munter, Herbert, 1894-1970 2
Northrop 2
OX-5 Aviation Pioneers (Organization) 2
Pan American World Airways, Inc. 2
Project Apollo (U.S.) 2
Pulitzer Air Race 2
Quiet Birdmen 2
Rankin, John Gilbert "Tex", 1894-1947 2
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" 2
Trans World Airlines 2
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 2
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 2
United States. Coast Guard 2
University of Washington 2
Wallick, S. L. 2
Western Airlines 2
Westervelt, George Conrad, 1879-1956 2
Whitman, Bruce 2
Wien, Noel, 1899-1977 2
Aer Lingus 1
Aerial Experiment Association 1
Aero Club of America 1
Aero Industries Corporation 1
Aerojet Rocketdyne 1
Aerojet-General Corporation 1
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America 1
Aiken, Joe, 1900-1969 (filmmaker) 1
Air France 1
Aircraft Industries 1
Airservices Company Ltd. 1
Alaska Airlines 1
Alaska-Washington Airways 1
Aldrin, Buzz 1
Alison, John R. (John Richardson), 1912-2011 1
Alitalia (Airline) 1
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 1
Allied Engineering Corporation 1
Allied International Company 1
Allred, Gene M. 1
American Committee for Relief in the Near East 1
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 1
American Red Cross 1
Anderson, William Y. 1
Antietam (Aircraft carrier) 1
Apollo 1 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 10 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 12 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 14 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 15 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 16 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 17 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 6 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo Soyuz Test Project 1
Argentina. Armada 1

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