Tacoma (Wash.)
Subject
Subject Source: Naf
Scope Note: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79071274
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Elsie Anderson Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1997-04-17A
Abstract
Elsie Anderson worked at Boeing Company as a Public Relations representative, circa 1940s-1950s. The collection includes negatives, films, photographic prints, and a small amount of textual materials related to Boeing aircraft and test flights occurring during the 1940s-1950s.
Early Tacoma Aviation Scrapbook
Collection — Box Scrapbook Box 13
Identifier: 2018-00-00-102
Content Description
This small collection consists of one scrapbook containing photographs and clippings relating to early aviation in and around the Tacoma, Washington area. There are 19 clippings, primarily relating to Gustav W. Stromer including stories on his July 2, 1915 Tacoma to Port Angeles flight and ones on him and Jane O'Roark. There are 72 photographs, which are mostly unidentified. 34 photographs are related to aviation and include hydroaeroplanes and amphibious aircraft and...
E.L. Leak Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1999-04-25
Contents of the Collection
The E.L. Leak Collection is a small collection comprised of photographs and certificates collected during E.L. Leak’s service in the United States Navy in World War II and as a career pilot. Ten black-and-white photographs feature a group photo of VF Squadron 1B; a carrier landing accident; the USS Lexington (CV-2) under way; squadrons of Curtiss F6C-2 and Boeing F3B aircraft on deck of unidentified carrier; a Boeing F2B squadron on deck of unidentified ship with other destroyers in background;...
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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E.L. Leak Collection
Tacoma to Tokyo Fokker C.IVa Photographs
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2023-10-17
Contents of the Collection
The Tacoma to Tokyo Fokker C.IVa Photographs contains two black-and-white photographs depicting a 1923 Fokker C.IVa airplane used by Robert "Bob" Wark and Eddie Brown in an attempt to fly from Tacoma, Washington to Tokyo, Japan for a contest sponsored by the Seattle Star. It is likely these photographs were taken in Tacoma, Washington. The men modified the aircraft for long-distance travel, including removing the passenger seats and addition of a...
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