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notes (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.

Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

McDonnell F-4C (F-110A) Phantom II Collection

 Collection — Box Assorted oversize box 3, oversize: folder
Identifier: 2019-00-00-93
Contents of the Collection This small collection is comprised of four items: a map of Vietnam, a lithograph of a McDonnell F-4C, a photograph of a F-4C, and a typed note. The map is 20x21.5" and has a plastic overlay annotated what is likely code names, such as "Dressy Lady," "Paddy," and "Playboy." The color lithograph depicts a F4-C Phantom II (tail number 64-0776). Part of the lengthy caption reads: "142nd FIG [Fighter Interceptor Group], Portland IAP, March 1988. 123rd FIS [Fighter Interceptor Squadron], Oregon...
Dates: circa 1960-1980s

Dwayne McLeod World War II Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2015-00-00-42
Contents of the Collection

The collection relates to the World War II experience of Dwayne W. McLeod, who served as a mechanic during the war. Materials include Boeing School of Aeronautics notes and training documents, a Flight Officer's checklist for the DC-3, aviation decals, and an airmail envelope.

Dates: circa 1930s-1940s

John P. Oberto Pilot Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-05-17
Contents of the Collection The John P. Oberto Pilot Collection is a small collection that holds textual and visual materials primarily related to Oberto's World War II service as a naval aviator. The collection includes three logbooks, 1942-1954, and multiple service certificates, including Naval Aviator, VRF-1 Squadron, Satisfactory Service, and his 1961 Honorable Discharge. Also included are notes and twelve modern digital prints and reprints of Oberto as he visited aircraft he had flown during his...
Dates: 1942-circa 2010s

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

Richard Pemberton Northwest Orient Airlines Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2013-10-03
Contents of the Collection The Richard Pemberton Northewest Orient Airlines Collection is a small collection comprised of materials compiled by Richard Pemberton, a flight dispatcher for Northwest Orient Airlines (NWA), during his career. The material includes textual materials and photographs.The textual materials include flight dispatcher seniority lists, 1947-1984; navigational charts; records of aircraft dispatchers flight tours, 1976-1986; photocopies of flight planning tables; a NWA News newsletter,...
Dates: 1940s-1980s

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

Susan "Kelly" Riley United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2008-03-06
Contents of the Collection The Susan "Kelly" A. Riley United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of textual materials and photographs related to Riley's career as a stewardess during the 1960s. There are two (2) United Airlines (UAL) Mainliner Stewardess diplomas (1961, 1963) for Riley; including the cases they were housed in. With each diploma is also a black-and-white group portrait of newly graduated UAL stewardesses. Both portraits are 8x10" and neither include identifying information,...
Dates: 1961-1963

Katherine (Magruder) Rutledge Eastern Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-3
Identifier: 2025-03-25
Contents of the Collection The Katherine (Magruder) Rutledge Eastern Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection of training materials collected and used by Rutledge during her 1966 Eastern Airlines flight attendant training. Materials include quizzes, study guides, notes, practice forms and reports, and policies and procedures aboard aircraft. Specific aircraft covered in the training materials include the Boeing Model 720 and the Douglas DC-8. Examples of topics covered include "high-altitude sense,"...
Dates: circa 1966

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

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

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