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notebooks

 Subject

Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Scope Note: Books of blank pages, usually ruled, used for taking notes, especially by pupils and students for taking class notes or writing or drawing exercises.

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

Ralph B. McCormick Boeing Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-02-08-A
Content Description Ralph B. McCormick Boeing Collection is a small collection of materials relating to McCormick’s career as an aeronautical engineer with the Boeing Company from 1951 to 1989. The collection dates from 1944 to 1989 and is comprised of personnel records, reports, program schedules, technical diagrams, hand-drawn preliminary designs with accompanying hand-written notes, clippings, as well as lantern slides of a professional presentation. In addition to the materials noted above, there are...
Dates: 1944-1989
Found in Subjects:  notebooks

Joyce Parker World War II Personal History

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 004826]
Identifier: 2024-01-19
Content Description The Joyce Parker World War II Personal History is a small collection consisting of an autobiographical narrative by Joyce Parker who worked as a "Rosie the Riveter" at the Boeing Company during World War II, as well as two photographic portraits. The story, which is four handwritten pages in a spiral-bound notebook, explains how teenage girls and women were recruited to work toward the war effort. Parker initially worked as a messenger for the Office of Civilian Defense. Then,...
Dates: circa 1940s, 2005
Found in Subjects:  notebooks

Alan Lonsdale Patterson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-08-03-A
Overview Alan Lonsdale Patterson worked extensively in the field of aviation from the 1920s to the 1980s. Throughout his career he worked as a barnstormer, pilot and established multiple companies that facilitated the sale of aircraft and aeronautical equipment, predominately between companies based in the United States and China. The collection represents both his professional and personal life through correspondence, photographs, business records, clippings and audiovisual materials, as well as...
Dates: 1876-2021; Majority of material found within 1920-1981
Found in Subjects:  notebooks

Robert F. Patterson Pilot Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2024-10-28
Contents of the Collection The Robert F. Patterson Pilot Collection consists of textual and visual materials primarily relating to the career of Trans World Airlines (TWA) pilot Robert F. Patterson, 1965-1982. The bulk of the collection is textual materials and includes TWA correspondence, memos, and bulletins. It also includes his 1977 pilot license, medical certificates, flight condition reports, customs forms, TWA employee benefit materials, a notebook, and reference materials issued by TWA. There are...
Dates: 1953-1982; Majority of material found within 1965-1982
Found in Subjects:  notebooks

Earl H. M. Phillips RAF Glider Pilot Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-01-28
Content Description The Earl H. M. Phillips RAF Glider Pilot Collection contains textual materials, 18 photographic prints, and 1 DVD related to the 1944-1946 World War II military service of Royal Air Force (RAF) glider pilot Earl H.M. Phillips. The collection has been arranged as three series: World War II-era materials, Post-war and commemorative materials, and personal materials. The bulk of the collection is Series I: World War II-era materials, 1944-1947 and is...
Dates: 1937-1992; Majority of material found within 1944-1946
Found in Notes:  discharge certificate, and pay book; 5 RAF notebooks of handwritten notes on such topics as air speed, flaps
Found in Subjects:  notebooks

Meindert Pillie Boeing Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2025-11-11-A
Contents of the Collection The Meindert Pillie Boeing Collection is comprised of textual and visual materials collected and used by Meindert Pillie over the course of his 40-year career as a Mechanic and Hydraulic Mockup Technician with the Boeing Company. The collection has been divided into two series: Professional materials and Aircraft documentation. Both series have been arranged chronologically. The first series, ...
Dates: 1934-1972
Found in Notes:  , correspondence, and two notebooks that focus on the Boeing B-52.

Additional materials related to Pillie's time
Found in Subjects:  notebooks

Lyden H. Rien Boeing Flying Fortress School Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-01-31
Content Description The Lyden H. Rien Boeing Flying Fortress School Collection consists of materials related to Rien's military service during World War II as a B-17 mechanic. The bulk of the collection consists of U.S. Army Air Corps Technical School training materials from the Boeing Flying Fortress School, part of the Boeing School of Aeronautics, from when Rien trained as a B-17 mechanic in 1942. The materials include a two-volume training manual that is interspersed with handwritten notes and...
Dates: 1941-1945
Found in Subjects:  notebooks

Clayton Scott Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-05-01
Abstract The Clayton Scott Aviation Collection documents the career and personal life of pilot Clayton Scott (CLS). The collection contains both visual and textual materials that date from 1904 to 2006. These documents bring to light CLS’s pioneering work in the field of aviation throughout the Pacific Northwest region, beginning in the 1920s until the early 2000s. The materials illustrate his work with aviation entrepreneur Vern Gorst, his work as a private pilot of William E. Boeing, his position...
Dates: 1904-2006
Found in Subjects:  notebooks

Nancy W. (Biddle) Seidel Trans World Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2015-04-03
Contents of the Collection The Nancy W. (Biddle) Seidel Trans World Airlines Flight Attendant Collection consists of textual materials that document Seidel's 1946-1947 service as an air hostess with Trans World Airlines (TWA). The materials were collected by Seidel and include her 1946-1947 flight log, which includes date, flight and airplane numbers, crew names, destination and origin locations, arrival and departure times, and other notes, such as altitude. Not every entry includes the same information....
Dates: circa 1940-1947
Found in Subjects:  notebooks

Deke Slayton Mercury Program Notebook

 Collection — Box Slayton Collections Box 1
Identifier: 2011-12-03
Content Description The Deke Slayton Mercury Program Notebook is a small collection consisting of a single item: a spiral bound "steno"-style notebook of handwritten notes by Deke Slayton during the Mercury Program. Written on the cover is the text, “Astro Affairs Organization of 1st Astronaut Office." The contents of the notebook illustrate the organizational structure of the department, problems that needed to be addressed, future program plans, and policies that were to be published. Each of these topics are...
Dates: circa 1958-1963
Found in Subjects:  notebooks

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