Washington (State)
Subject
Subject Source: Naf
Scope Note: Geographic location
Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:
Nordhoff and Dunnam Families World War I and Bellevue Airport Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1993-05-11
Abstract
Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, and assorted ephemera from the Nordhoff and Dunnam families, who served as pilots in World War I and World War II and later founded the Bellevue Airport.
Dates:
1910s to 1980s, 2014
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Jack Northcott photograph album
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2013-07-15
Contents of the Collection
The Jack Northcott photograph album contains black-and-white photographs and assorted printed ephemera related to Northcott's United States Navy service during the 1950s. The album was likely collected and put together by Northcott or a close friend or family member. The front cover of the green leather[?] album has two (2) personalizations. On the top left side is a circular seal edged in red with a blue dragon over a ship [possibly a submarine]. Along the seal on the top reads...
Dates:
circa 1950s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Roy A. Parsons Aerocar Film
Collection — Box Film Box 5, Reel: 1
Identifier: 1992-01-11
Contents of the Collection
The Roy A. Parsons Aerocar Film is a small collection consisting of one privately shot 8mm film from 1968 of the Aerocar with inventor Molt Taylor demonstrating features of the aircraft. The footage, which was shot in Washington State, begins with the Aerocar III (N100D) in its car configuration, towing its folded wing attachment. Taylor and an unidentified man then convert the Aerocar to its plane configuration and take off from an unidentified airfield. The Aerocar is shown in...
Dates:
circa 1968
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
Arnold C. Pearson Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2023-10-03
Contents of the Collection
The Arnold C. Pearson Collection consists of textual and visual materials created by Pearson during his education at the Aeronautical College in Chicago, Illinois and career as an aeronautical engineer and draftsman for the Boeing Company from the 1930s to the 1970s. Within the collection is a photograph album containing approximately 160 black-and-white photographs depicting Pearson’s friends and family, as well as his travels. The images are all from the 1930s and include...
Dates:
1930-1975
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
Jake Schultz Aerocar Film Collection
Collection — Box Film Box 5, Reel: 1
Identifier: 2006-10-12
Contents of the Collection
The Jake Schultz Aerocar Film Collection is a small collection consisting of one film related to Molt Taylor and the Aerocar III (N100D), circa 1968. The footage includes multiple segments. The first segment depicts Taylor and others on a rocky shoreline at Cape Disappointment, Washington; the Cape Disappointment lighthouse is visible in some shots. The footage then transitions to an unidentified airfield, where Taylor is shown with the Aerocar III. Scenes include the Aerocar...
Dates:
1968
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Signed Group Portrait of African American "Rosie the Riveters"
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2018-00-00-24
Contents of the Collection
The collection consists of a single black-and-white group portrait of eight (8) female African American Boeing assembly workers. It is likely the women worked at the Boeing Renton facility, circa 1940s. The women are posed in front of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress and each has signed the photograph with their name: Back row, left to right: Louise Williams, [illegible], Velma Glass Johnson, Florence Thomas;
Front row, left to right: Katie Jeffries, Althea Skelton, Ella Mae, Mary...
Dates:
circa 1940s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Lyle Speelman Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2006-10-18
Content Description
The Lyle Speelman Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Collection is a small collection comprised of correspondence, newsletters, minutes, bulletins, and related materials of the AOPA Seattle Unit, dated 1956-1957.
Original order, as recieved by donor, has been maintained.
Dates:
1956-1957
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Barbara Spraker Sea-Tac Airport Slides
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2018-07-10
Contents of the Collection
The Barbara Spraker Sea-Tac Airport Slides collection is a small collection consisting of 44 photographic slides depicting scenes at at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) in the mid-1970s. The 35mm color slides were taken by Spraker during her work as a tour guide for the Port of Seattle at Sea-Tac airport. A little under half the images depict various U.S.-based airliners at gates and on the tarmac. Airlines represented in the collection includes Alaska Airlines,...
Dates:
1972-1976
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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