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Helen C. Eads Boeing Machinist Collection

 Collection — Folder: One
Identifier: 2023-10-05
Contents of the Collection The Helen C. Eads Boeing Machinist Collection is a single-file collection that pertains to Eads' work as a machinist on B-29 aircraft at The Boeing Company in 1944. It includes Eads' union card book and "honorary retiring card" for the International Order of Machinists, Lodge Number 751-H. It also includes three black-and-white photographs. One depicts a B-29 in flight over Mount Rainier. The other two images both depict Eads; one shows her working as a machinist. The other image is a group...

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.

69 Squadron Israel Air Force Photograph Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1985-07-27-D
Contents of the Collection This collection is comprised of four color photographs of first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and his wife, Paula, with 69 Squadron, Israel Air Force, inspecting Boeing B-17 aircraft that had participated in Israel's War of Independence in 1948. Included is a detailed description of how three repurposed B-17s shifted Israel's air potential during the war.

Daniel Abramson Korean War Photograph Album

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2020-02-26
Content Description The Daniel Abramson Korean War Photograph Album consists of one album with snapshots documenting Abramson's service in the United States Air Force during the Korean War.The album has a teal cover with a Chinese or Japanese style dragon plate on the front cover, presumably purchased during his time abroad in service. It measures approximately 9x12x1.5 inches and has black paper pages. Inside there are 143 black-and-white photographs, each about 3.5x4.5 inches, affixed with album...

George E. Adams, Jr. Papers and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-03-15
Abstract Collection of materials related to the military service of Second Lieutenant George E. Adams Jr., who served as a reconnaissance pilot in World War II.

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...

Air Memorial Day Program

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-00-00-37
Abstract The collection contains a program for an air show honoring servicemen who died during World War I.

Air Show and Air Race Collection

 Collection — Box: One
Identifier: 2018-00-00-137
Contents of the Collection The Air Show and Air Race Collection is a small collection pertaining to assorted historic air events. This is an artificial collection with materials gathered from a variety of sources.

The collection is primarily comprised of newspaper clippings and printed ephemera. Events documented include the Chicago International Air Show in Grant Park in 1911 and Rudolph's Flying Circus from 1984.

Dorothy Allen and Carol Gounaris Flying Tiger Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-04-14-A
Contents of the Collection The collection is comprised of primarily textual materials with a small amount of photographs that are related to Dorothy (Jesseman) Allen and Carol (Prentice) Gounaris who worked for the Flying Tiger Line as flight attendants, 1960-1964. The collection has been sorted into two series.Series I, Dorothy Allen materials, is the bulk of the collection. It includes Flying Tiger employee documentation in the form of a 1962 flight attendant seniority list, cholera vaccination certificate,...

John W. Allen World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-04-29-2
Overview John W. Allen was a B-17 navigator during World War II. The collection consists of visual, audiovisual, and textual materials documenting Allen's missions in Europe with the 91st Bomb Group (H), 401st Bomb Squadron.

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photographic prints 385
World War, 1939-1945 169
clippings (information artifacts) 161
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Air pilots, Military 100
certificates 88
logs (records) 88
World War, 1914-1918 74
Airplanes, Military 63
military records 62
booklets 59
Air pilots 58
photocopies 58
Airlines 57
Soldiers 53
negatives (photographs) 52
scrapbooks 52
aerial photographs 51
photograph albums 51
postcards 50
Aircraft accidents 47
identity cards 47
Flight attendants 46
brochures 46
Boeing Company -- Employees 44
Washington (State) 43
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Family 37
Seattle (Wash.) 36
orders (military records) 36
slides (photographs) 36
France 35
Women in aeronautics 35
maps (documents) 35
menus 34
newsletters 32
decals 31
notes (documents) 31
Fighter pilots 30
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area 30
memorandums 29
technical drawings 29
lithographs 28
programs (documents) 28
Airships 27
business cards 27
Airplanes -- Design and construction 26
Northwest, Pacific 26
photographic postcards 26
posters 26
Alaska 25
Japan 25
articles 25
technical reports 25
Boeing Model 747 Family 24
Flight training 23
Germany 23
Seaplanes 23
notebooks 23
Women air pilots 21
digital prints 21
drawings (visual works) 21
signatures (names) 21
Biplanes 20
California 20
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Family 20
China 19
manuals (instructional materials) 19
Bombing, Aerial 18
Curtiss JN-4D Jenny 18
transportation timetables 18
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 17
England 17
TMOF Aircraft 17
diplomas 17
personnel records 17
16mm (photographic film size) 16
Aces (Fighter pilots) 16
Air mail service 16
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 16
Douglas DC-3 Family 16
airline maps 16
blueprints (reprographic copies) 16
de Havilland (Airco) D.H.4 16
stationery 16
Armed Forces -- Officers 15
Astronauts 15
Boeing B-17 Model 299 Flying Fortress ("XB-17") 15
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Family (Model 464) 15
Douglas C-47 Skytrain Family 15
Hawaii 15
Lockheed P-38 Lightning Family 15
Military education 15
audiocassettes 15
Air shows 14
Airplanes -- Flight testing 14
navigation charts 14
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress 13
Boeing Model 707 Family 13
DVDs 13
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United States. Navy 67
United States. Air Force 57
Boeing 53
United States. Army Air Forces 52
Pan American World Airways, Inc 37
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United Airlines 37
Boeing Company 35
United States. Army. Air Corps 25
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 22
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces 21
Northwest Airlines Corporation 19
United States. Army. Air Service 19
Trans World Airlines 17
United States. Army 16
Western Airlines 16
Project Apollo (U.S.) 14
United States. Marine Corps 14
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 12
King County International Airport 12
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 11
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 10
American Airlines 9
Douglas 9
North American Aviation 9
Northwest Airlines, Inc. 9
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 9
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th 8
United States. Naval Reserve 8
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) 8
Alaska Airlines 7
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) 7
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 7
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 7
Douglas Aircraft Company 7
Eastern Air Lines 7
Lockheed 7
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 7
Slayton, Donald K., 1924-1993 7
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 7
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 7
American Fighter Aces Association 6
Boeing School of Aeronautics (Oakland, Calif.) 6
Braniff Airways 6
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 6
Curtiss 6
Delta Air Lines 6
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 6
United States. Army. European Theater of Operations 6
Air Line Pilots Association 5
Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) 5
Consolidated Aircraft Corp 5
Flying Tiger Line 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
Northrop 5
Pearson Field (Vancouver, Wash.) 5
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935 5
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 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
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 Air Transport 4
Boeing, Bertha Marie (Potter Paschall), 1891-1977 4
British Airways 4
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 4
China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group 4
Continental Airlines 4
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 4
Douglas, Donald Wills, Sr., 1892-1981 4
Fornasero, John B., 1904-1967 4
France. Armée de l'air 4
Germany. Luftwaffe 4
Graf Zeppelin (Airship) 4
Haise, Fred, 1933- 4
Horizon Air 4
Hughes Airwest 4
KLM (Airline) 4
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 4
Langley Field (Va.) 4
Lovell, Jim 4
McDonnell Douglas Corporation 4
Museum of Flight (Seattle, Wash.) 4
Pacific Alaska Airways 4
Pacific Northern Airlines 4
Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948 4
Republic Airlines 4
Scandinavian Airlines System 4
Shepard, Alan B. (Alan Bartlett), 1923-1998 4
Stearman (1927) 4
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