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Associated Women Pilots of Boeing Field Photographs and Clipping

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2011-00-00-15
Content Description The Associated Women Pilots of Boeing Field Photographs and Clipping is a small collection of visual and textual materials documenting the the Associated Women Pilots of Boeing Field (AWPBF), circa late 1930s-1940s.The collection includes thirteen black-and-white photographic prints of six discrete images. One image is an informal portrait of a woman pilot in her coveralls, helmet and goggles. The name on her coveralls reads "Penney." One image depicts a department store display...

Frederick Nelson Atwood Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-10-13
Overview The collection consists of one ledger book created by Frederick Nelson Atwood, circa 1862-1880, with his handwritten notes and illustrations. The ledger primarily consists of notes related to Atwood's career as an artist. Of particular interest note are his illustrations and notes on airships and balloons.

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...

Avro Lancaster technical report and letter

 Collection — Box: One
Identifier: 1986-08-12-A
Content Description The Avro Lancaster technical report and letter is a small collection of textual materials about the Avro Lancaster from 1942. The collection includes one bound volume with information about the Avro Lancaster bomber including a general description, information on the Merlin and Hercules engines, technical data, plans and elevation drawings, and proposed bomb placement diagrams. The plans and elevation drawings are folded into the volume but unfold to dimensions of about 29x39 inches. A "secret"...

Robert Bailey "Tuskegee Trigger Time" Signed Lithograph

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2022-05-13
Contents of the Collection This single-item collection consists of a lithograph titled "Tuskegee Trigger Time" reproducing a painting done by aviation artist Robert Bailey in 2005. The 23 x 34" print is numbered (78/100) and depicts the Tuskegee Airmen of the 301st Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group in North American P-51 Mustangs fending off a Luftwaffe attack while escorting a Royal Air Force de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito during a photo reconnaissance mission above Germany during early 1945. It features "Creamer's...

Elmer A. Ball World War II Negatives

 Collection — Folder: 1
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...

William Frederick Barns Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-04-13
Abstract William Frederick "Bill" Barns (1920-1995) joined the United States Air Force in 1942 and flew in the European Theater during World War II. After the war, Barns served in the USAF in several capacities until his retirement in 1966 when he went to work in the private sector, including for Garrett Corporation. The collection contains a broad array of textual materials as well as photographs and digital images related to his military and professional careers.

The Julius A. Barr Clippings

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-3
Abstract Julius A. Barr (1905-1939) was born in Normal, Illinois and spent time as a personal pilot to Chinese military figures in the mid-1930s as well as worked as a Boeing test pilot from 1938-1939. The collection contains four clippings related to Barr's time at Boeing and his death.

Julius A. Barr Correspondence and Clippings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-08-26-A
Content Description The Julius A. Barr Correspondence and Clippings is a small collection consisting primarily of textual materials documenting Barr's professional and personal life from the late 1920s until his death in 1939. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by Barr, as well as a few written by his wife Hortense, to his parents residing in Pittsburg, Kansas, from 1926 until 1939. The letters shed light on his military training, his work importing and demonstrating aircraft for...

The Julius A. Barr Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-6
Abstract Julius A. Barr (1905-1939) was born in Normal, Illinois and spent time as a personal pilot to Chinese military figures Zhang Xueliang (also known as the "Young Marshal" and "Peter Chang") and General Chiang Kai-shek in the mid-1930s. The collection contains a photograph album with three hundred and thirty-nine (339) black-and-white photographs, most likely taken by Barr, covering his time in China.

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photographic prints 350
World War, 1939-1945 160
clippings (information artifacts) 149
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Air pilots, Military 96
logs (records) 84
certificates 82
World War, 1914-1918 72
Airplanes, Military 61
booklets 58
military records 56
photocopies 54
Air pilots 51
Airlines 51
Soldiers 51
aerial photographs 50
scrapbooks 48
photograph albums 47
negatives (photographs) 44
brochures 43
identity cards 43
postcards 43
Flight attendants 42
Aircraft accidents 41
Washington (State) 40
Boeing Company -- Employees 39
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Family 35
Seattle (Wash.) 33
maps (documents) 33
France 32
menus 32
newsletters 32
orders (military records) 32
slides (photographs) 31
Women in aeronautics 30
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area 29
decals 29
Fighter pilots 27
notes (documents) 27
business cards 26
memorandums 26
Airplanes -- Design and construction 25
lithographs 25
programs (documents) 25
Northwest, Pacific 24
Japan 23
articles 23
photographic postcards 23
technical drawings 23
Airships 22
Boeing Model 747 Family 22
Flight training 22
technical reports 22
Germany 21
digital prints 21
notebooks 21
posters 21
Alaska 19
China 19
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Family 19
Seaplanes 19
Women air pilots 19
drawings (visual works) 19
signatures (names) 19
Biplanes 18
California 18
Curtiss JN-4D Jenny 18
manuals (instructional materials) 18
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 17
Bombing, Aerial 17
transportation timetables 17
Douglas DC-3 Family 16
England 16
de Havilland (Airco) D.H.4 16
personnel records 16
Aces (Fighter pilots) 15
Air mail service 15
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 15
airline maps 15
diplomas 15
16mm (photographic film size) 14
Air shows 14
Airplanes -- Flight testing 14
Armed Forces -- Officers 14
Astronauts 14
Boeing B-17 Model 299 Flying Fortress ("XB-17") 14
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Family (Model 464) 14
Douglas C-47 Skytrain Family 14
Hawaii 14
Lockheed P-38 Lightning Family 14
stationery 14
yearbooks 14
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress 13
DVDs 13
Military education 13
SPAD XIII (S.13) 13
TMOF Aircraft 13
Training 13
instructional materials 13
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United States. Navy 63
United States. Air Force 54
United States. Army Air Forces 50
Boeing 46
Pan American World Airways, Inc 33
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United Airlines 32
Boeing Company 29
United States. Army. Air Corps 23
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces 21
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 20
United States. Army. Air Service 19
Northwest Airlines Corporation 16
United States. Army 16
Trans World Airlines 14
United States. Marine Corps 14
Project Apollo (U.S.) 13
Western Airlines 13
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 12
King County International Airport 12
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 10
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 9
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 9
North American Aviation 8
United States. Naval Reserve 8
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) 8
American Airlines 7
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) 7
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 7
Northwest Orient Airlines 7
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 7
Slayton, Donald K., 1924-1993 7
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 7
American Fighter Aces Association 6
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 6
Curtiss 6
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 6
Douglas Aircraft Company 6
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 6
Eastern Air Lines 6
Lockheed 6
United States. Army. European Theater of Operations 6
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 6
Alaska Airlines 5
Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) 5
Boeing School of Aeronautics (Oakland, Calif.) 5
Consolidated Aircraft Corp 5
Delta Air Lines 5
Douglas 5
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps 5
John F. Kennedy Space Center 5
Kelly Field (Tex.) 5
Lunar Orbiter (Artificial satellite) 5
Merrill, A. Elliott (Albert), 1901-1992 5
National Championship Air Races 5
Naval Air Station Pensacola (Fla.) 5
Northrop 5
Pearson Field (Vancouver, Wash.) 5
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" 5
Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 5
United States. Army. Air Service. Aero Squadron, 95th 5
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. Services of Supply 5
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 5
Air Line Pilots Association 4
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 4
Apollo Soyuz Test Project 4
Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012 4
Barr, Julius A., 1905-1939 4
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 4
Boeing, Bertha Marie (Potter Paschall), 1891-1977 4
Braniff Airways 4
British Airways 4
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 4
China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group 4
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 4
Douglas, Donald Wills, Sr., 1892-1981 4
Flying Tiger Line 4
Fornasero, John B., 1904-1967 4
France. Armée de l'air 4
Germany. Luftwaffe 4
Graf Zeppelin (Airship) 4
Haise, Fred, 1933- 4
Langley Field (Va.) 4
Lovell, Jim 4
McDonnell Douglas Corp 4
Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948 4
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 4
Stearman (1927) 4
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 4
United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group, 490th 4
United States. Army. Air Service. Aero Squadron, 94th 4
United States. Army. Signal Corps 4
Aerocar, Inc 3
Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association 3
Apollo 12 (Spacecraft) 3
Associated Women Pilots of Boeing Field 3
Avro 3
Barr, Effie Hortense, 1904-1985 3
Barr, Gene Edward, 1933- 3
Barr, JoAnn, 1930- 3
Beachey, Lincoln J., 1887-1915 3
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