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World War II-era Propaganda Posters
Collection
Identifier: 2020-00-00-08
Overview
The World War II-era Propaganda Posters is a collection of posters illustrating the United States Government propaganda campaign to persuade Americans to support the war effort. The posters were mass-produced from about 1939 to 1945.
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Col. Frank Wilbur Wright Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1986-01-02
Abstract
Frank Wilbur Wright (1886-1950) of Portland, Oregon spent most of his adult life in the military, with service spanning the Oregon Naval Militia, Oregon National Guard, U.S. Army Air Service, Air Corps, and Air Force, and both World Wars. The collection contains commissions, photographs, identification cards, and other materials relating to Wright's long military career.
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Greg Wright Pan American World Airways Collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1988-01-28
Contents of the Collection
This small collection is comprised of a Pan American World Airways flight schedule, effective November 1, 1946. Titled "Air Ways for Two-Way Trade," the timetable features international routes all over the world. It includes more detail on routes between North and South America as it is "probably the best opportunity for reciprocal foreign trade." A Pan American Airways route map is included at the center of the booklet.
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Orville Wright Letter
Collection
Identifier: 2018-10-01-D
Abstract
4-page typed letter signed on Wright Company letterhead, dated April 7, 1915, to Frederick Eppelsheimer of the New York Herald, discussing the possibility of using a pendulum to stabilize aircraft, mentioning the death of his brother Wilbur, and referencing fellow aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss. Accompanied by a small matte-finish portrait of Eppelsheimer, dated 1918.
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Brien S. Wygle Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2020-09-17
Contents of the Collection
The Brien S. Wygle Collection is a small collection primarily consisting of logbooks and certificates, licenses, and awards documenting Wygle's service in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II through his career at the Boeing Company as a test pilot. The logbooks span 1943 to 2008 and document his military service, his time flying as a commercial pilot with Queen Charlotte Airlines in 1950, and his Boeing career beginning in May 1951. There is a gap in the logs from...
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Frank R. Yager Collection
Collection — Box: One
Identifier: 2018-07-04
Content Description
The Frank R. Yager collection consists of items documenting Yager's career as an airmail pilot. Included are three logbooks, his pilot's licenses and certificates, and 14 photographs. The photographs consist of both snapshots and formal group portraits as well as some views of airmail planes. There are few identifications with the photographs, but also depicted are Lee Patterson, Jack Knight, and C.F. Egge. Addiontally, there are photocopies of other images. There is one folder of...
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Francis M. Young Aerial Survey Photograph Collection
Collection — Box: Small Collections Very Large Items 1980-2005, oversize: folder
Identifier: 1987-09-01-A
Contents of the Collection
The Francis M. Young Aerial Survey Photograph Collection is comprised of fifteen (15) black-and-white aerial photographs taken during Alaska Survey Expeditions, circa 1930s-1940s. The photographs are 18x22" and only a few have very brief contextual information on the reverse. Identifications include a Douglas R5D (Douglas C-54 Skymaster), Mount Rainier (Washington State), and the Columbia Glacier (Alaska). One (1) photograph depicts an at-sea aircraft carrier with a full deck of...
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Ted Young Aviation lithograph collection
Collection — Box: Small Collections oversize materials 2019-, oversize: folder
Identifier: 2019-00-00-1
Contents of the Collection
The Ted Young Aviation lithograph collection is comprised of eighteen (18) 11x14" color lithographs of assorted aircraft and aviators, created in 1974-circa 1990s. Identified aircraft include the Wright Military Flyer, "The Spirit of St. Louis", and Lockheed Vega "Winnie May." Identified personalities include Amelia Earhart, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Wilbur and Orvile Wright, General Jimmy Doolittle, Robert H. Goddard, Neil Armstrong, and John Glenn. Many of the lithographs, specifically those...
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Charles Zevart World War II Glider Pilot Collection
Collection — Box: One
Identifier: 2019-05-16
Content Description
The Charles Zevart World War II Glider Pilot Collection consists of items relating to the life and military career of Charles Zevart, a World War II glider pilot. The collection contains his military records, high school diploma, black-and-white photographs, correspondence with the Air Force, and his Army Flying School yearbook.
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George T. Zimmer Ejection Seat Testing Photographs Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2006-06-15
Contents of the Collection
The George T. Zimmer Ejection Seat Testing Photographs Collection consists of 112 photographs from the 1960s or 1970s related to aircraft ejection seat tests.The first folder of photographs includes 30 prints, one 4x5" and the rest 8x10". Twenty-eight are black-and-white prints and two are in color. These photographs depict United States Air Force ejection seat testing experiments, some labeled as taking place at the U.S. Naval Aerospace Recovery Facility in El Centro, California....
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- Douglas Aircraft Company 6
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- Eastern Air Lines 5
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- Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 5
- Slayton, Donald K., 1924-1993 5
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- United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. Services of Supply 5
- Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 4
- Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) 4
- Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) 4
- Barr, Julius A., 1905-1939 4
- Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 4
- Boeing, Bertha Marie (Potter Paschall), 1891-1977 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
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- Haise, Fred, 1933- 4
- Langley Field (Va.) 4
- McDonnell Douglas Corp 4
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 4
- Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 4
- United States. Army. Air Service. Aero Squadron, 94th 4
- United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 4
- United States. Army. Signal Corps 4
- Air Line Pilots Association 3
- Alaska Airlines 3
- Apollo Soyuz Test Project 3
- Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012 3
- Associated Women Pilots of Boeing Field 3
- Barr, Effie Hortense, 1904-1985 3
- Barr, Gene Edward, 1933- 3
- Barr, JoAnn, 1930- 3
- Beachey, Lincoln J., 1887-1915 3
- Boeing Air Transport 3
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- Bucholz Army Airfield (Kwajalien Atoll, Marshall Islands) 3
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- Columbia (Spacecraft) 3
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- Dominguez Field (Calif.) 3
- Dunnam, Nancy (Nordhoff), 1923- 3
- Grumman (Bethpage, NY) 3
- Guynemer, Georges, 1894-1917 3
- Hickam Air Force Base (Hawaii) 3
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