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New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Naf
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n80126293

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

William S. Luckey Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-09-24
Abstract

William S. Luckey was an acclaimed Curtiss Flying Team pilot best known as the winner of The New York Times race around Manhattan Island on Oct. 13, 1913. The William S. Luckey Aviation Collection consists of visual and textual materials related to Luckey's aviation career and to his wife, Laura Luckey.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1913-1915; 1898-1959
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Russian Transpolar Flight Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-12-23
Abstract

The Russian Transpolar Flight Collection primarily documents the June 1937 transpolar flight by Russian aviators Valery Chkalov, Georgii Baidukov, and V. Belydakov with photographs, clippings, audio-visual materials, and various textual materials. It also features a small amount of material about the July 1937 transpolar flight by Russian aviators M. Gromov, Sergei Danilin, and Andrei Yumashev, as well as general Russia-related research materials.

Dates: 1937-2012
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Gerald Schackman B-17 Fundraising Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1985-07-08-C
Content Description The Gerald Schackman B-17 Fundraising Collection consists of one black-and-white photo of B-17F "Spirit of Woodside/Sunnyside" and a copy of the newspaper Woodside Herald for Feb. 26, 1943 that has an article about the Woodside/Sunnyside Bomber Fundraising campaign. This photograph and article are examples of media produced for fundraising for planes that never actually existed. The photograph had been doctored to look like a plane was...
Dates: 1943
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Series III. Lear, Incorporated, 1930-1965, 1999, undated

 Series
Scope and Contents: Lear, Incorporated Series III: Lear, Incorporated documents the company business primarily focused on the years 1944-1962, although there are both earlier and later dates represented. This section reflects the company’s focus on navigational instruments for aircraft, as well as innovations in home recording and radio. Also well-represented is WPL’s re-design of the Lockheed Lodestar into his desired vision for executive air transport, the Learstar. Less well-represented is the...
Dates: 1930-1965, 1999, undated
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers

Subseries C. Glass Plates, circa 1900s-1930s

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents From the Series: With more than 229 cubic feet of material, including prints, negatives, transparencies and scrapbooks, the photographic component of the collection makes up the vast majority of the collection and is an incredible resource of documentary images of aircraft. The series is subdivided into five subseries: aircraft files, non-aircraft files, glass plates, scrapbooks and albums, and the Sommerich collection. The aircraft files are then subdivided by format: prints,...
Dates: circa 1900s-1930s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers / Series I. Photographs

Thomas-Morse

 Organization

Wittemann

 Organization

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