Northrop P-61 Black Widow Family
Subject
Subject Source: Nasm
Scope Note: Aircraft
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas Cooper World War II Photograph Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2009-08-13-A
Contents of the Collection
The Thomas Cooper World War II Photograph Collection is comprised of 42 photographs mostly taken by Paul A. Payne, with whom Thomas Cooper served in United States Marine Corps in the Pacific theater of World War II. The photographs were taken on Saipan and Tinian in the Mariana Islands between 1944 and 1945. They feature several American aircraft, such as a Northrop P-61, a Douglas C-47, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, and several Boeing B-29s. Many of the B-29 photographs were taken on...
Dates:
Circa 1943-1946
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Cyrille M. Peabody Boeing Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2020-08-29
Contents of the Collection
The Cyrille M. Peabody Boeing Collection holds original artwork and reference files of Cyrille "Cy" M. Peabody, a Boeing Company employee and designer who worked in various art departments over a 31 1/2 year period in the mid-to-late 20th century. The collection is organized into two series: I. Artwork and II. Reference Files. Series I., Peabody's original art is mostly grouped together within 10 folders (2 boxes), although some individual pieces are found in subject folders. His...
Dates:
circa 1950s-1980s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Paul A. Ludwig Military Aviation Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2008-11-06
Abstract
The Paul A. Ludwig Military Aviation Photograph Collection contains 2382 photographic prints and negatives with a very small amount of textual materials collected by Paul A. Ludwig and ranging from the late 1910s through the early 1980s. The bulk and strength of the collection is photographs of World War II-era aircraft and squadrons. The collection is nearly all copy prints from a variety of institutions and dozens of private collections.
Dates:
1918-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1940-1945
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Northrop P-61 Black Widow, circa 1942-1954
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The Early Aviation Photograph Collection is a collection of unknown origins consisting of 328 black-and-white photographic prints and 299 negatives primarily depicting aircraft from the first half of the 20th century. Some airships, airports, pilots, and other subjects are also depicted in the photographs. The collection is arranged into two series: Airplane photographs and Non-airplane photographs. The first series, Airplane Photographs, makes up the bulk of the collection with...
Dates:
circa 1942-1954
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