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Jet airplane cartoon and floatplane photograph

Collection — Box: Small Collections Oversize Materials 2010-2018, oversize: folder

Identifier: 2018-00-00-73

Contents of the Collection The collection is comprised of two items; a cartoon drawing of a jet airplane and a black-and-white photograph of floatplane.The drawing is done in colored pencil and depicts a cartoon jet, with eyes and a tongue hanging from one its engines. It is signed by the artist, Brian Beausoleil, 1991. The photograph was removed from its original frame for preservation reasons, but remains affixed to the matboard. It depicts a floatplane stationary at a water dock, undated. No...

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Julius Christian Harland Knauss Collection

Collection

Identifier: 1987-03-30-B

Abstract Julius Christian Harland Knauss (1898-1986) served in the U.S. Navy during World War I at the Seattle (Wash.) Naval Training Camp. The collection contains material relating to the camp.

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Charles Lindbergh Transatlantic flight celebration menu

Collection — Box: Assorted rare collections, Box 1, Folder: 1

Identifier: 2004-03-26-A

Contents of the Collection The collection is comprised of a single 6-page booklet related to Charles Lindbergh's stop in Seattle, Washington during his around-the-US tour after his transatlantic flight, September 13, 1926. The cover title is "Business Men's Dinner in Honor of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh." The event was held at the Spanish Ball Room of the Olympic Hotel in Seattle. The booklet includes the evening's menu and program as well as a list of speaker and attendee names, including then-Mayor Bertha Knight...

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Kenneth B. Luplow Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2015-05-20

Content Description The Kenneth B. Luplow Collection is a small collection consisting of a logbook and notebook dating to Luplow's time working for Boeing in the 1940s. The logbook spans 1941-1946, and documents Luplow's role as flight engineer on many first flights, including the XB-29 and XC-97 and XPBB-1. Other test flights documented include ones for B-17 variants. Test pilots documented in the log include J.B. Fornasero, Elliott Merrill, A.C. Reed, Edmund T. Allen, Robert Lamson, J.A. Fraser, R.M....

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Orville M. MacLaren Logbooks

Collection — Box: One

Identifier: 2003-12-30

Content Description The Orville M. MacLeran Logbooks is a small collection consisting of six logbooks maintained by MacLeran and documenting his career as a flight instructor and commercial pilot from 1937-1963. Four of the logbooks are "pilot's flight logs" and document MacLeran's flights primarily to and from Seattle and Everett, Washington from 1937-1940. The books indicated that MacLeran held commercial and transport licenses with flight instructor ratings. A variety of aircraft are documented in...

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Harry R. Mankins Film Collection

Collection — Box: Film Box 6, Reel: 1

Identifier: 1999-03-02-A

Contents of the Collection The Harry R. Mankins Film Collection is a small collection containing one film reel from circa 1930s-1940s of various military aircraft and airliners flying around the Seattle, Washington area. Aircraft pictured include the Boeing XB-15, XB-17, 247, and 314 Clipper prototype; Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats; and a United Airlines Douglas DC-3 "Mainliner" aircraft. Passengers, flight attendants, and flight and ground crew are featured in a few shots. Other scenes include a brief aerial...

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Karl Martinez Dash-80 Barrel Roll Film

Collection — Box: Film Box 1, Reel: 1

Identifier: 1993-05-29

Contents of the Collection The Karl Martinez Dash-80 Film consists of one home movie-style film of Boeing Company test pilot Alvin “Tex” Johnston performing a barrel roll of the Boeing 367-80, a prototype of the Boeing 707, over the 1955 Seafair Gold Cup Hydroplane races.The footage begins with scenes of hydroplanes and boats on Lake Washington, spectators on boats, and a U.S. Navy airship with the text "Join the U.S. Naval Air Reserve / Be a Naval Aviation Cadet" on its gasbag. The barrel roll footage begins...

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Franklin W. Minert Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2008-11-23

Overview Franklin Minert was a test pilot and boom operator at the Boeing Company from 1943-1970. The collection contains photographic, textual and audiovisual materials relating to his career.

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Norah O'Neill Papers

Collection

Identifier: 2006-03-03

Abstract Norah Ellen O'Neill (1949-2017), from Seattle, Washington, was a commercial pilot and an aviation pioneer. The collection contains a scrapbook, book reviews, newsletters and serials, photographs, pilot log books, and correspondence related to her flight career and personal life.

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Arnold C. Pearson Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2023-10-03

Contents of the Collection The Arnold C. Pearson Collection consists of textual and visual materials created by Pearson during his education at the Aeronautical College in Chicago, Illinois and career as an aeronautical engineer and draftsman for the Boeing Company from the 1930s to the 1970s. Within the collection is a photograph album containing approximately 160 black-and-white photographs depicting Pearson’s friends and family, as well as his travels. The images are all from the 1930s and include captions....

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Jet airplane cartoon and floatplane photograph

Julius Christian Harland Knauss Collection

Charles Lindbergh Transatlantic flight celebration menu

Kenneth B. Luplow Collection

Orville M. MacLaren Logbooks

Harry R. Mankins Film Collection

Karl Martinez Dash-80 Barrel Roll Film

Franklin W. Minert Collection

Norah O'Neill Papers

Arnold C. Pearson Collection

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