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Aircraft industry -- United States -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Non-preferred terms: Airplane industry; Aviation industry http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002753.html

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Aviation Posters and Lithographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-00-00-4
Overview

The Aviation Posters and Lithographs collection is an artificial collection that contains oversize visual and textual materials that cover a variety of topics related to aviation including aircraft, early flight, air travel, World War II, and the United States Military. The posters cover a large span of years, from 1939 to 2010.

Dates: circa 1939-2010
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

William E. Boeing Sr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-10-06-B
Abstract

William E. Boeing, Sr. (1881-1956) was an aviation pioneer and founded The Boeing Company in 1916. The collection holds textual materials, such as correspondence, philately, business-related materials, clippings, and ephemera, as well as photographs and illustrations related to his personal and business life, circa 1783-2008. Major areas of interest include family photographs and extensive personal and business-related correspondence.

Dates: circa 1783-2008; Majority of material found within 1900s-1930s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-03-31
Overview

Peter M. Bowers (1918-2003) was an aeronautical engineer at The Boeing Company for 36 years but was more noted as an aviation historian who wrote several dozen books and close to 900 articles on aircraft. This collection is notable for the approximately 150,000 photographic images he amassed during his career, as well as his writing and research files. The materials span the early 1900s to 2003.

Dates: circa 1900s-2003
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Walter E. Burnham Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-02-27-A
Content Description The Walter E. Burnham Collection consists of personal and professional papers of Burnham, who was Manager of Manufacturing Research at the Boeing Company, Wichita Division in the 1950s and 1960s. The collection is organized into two series: Personal and Professional. The personal series includes a small amount of correspondence but primarily consists of documents relating to his education and work in aeronautical engineering at Tri-State College in Angola, Indiana in the early...
Dates: circa 1929 to 1964
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

The Douglas Aircraft Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1995-06-23-15
Abstract

The Douglas Aircraft Company was a pioneer in early aviation and is best known for its DC-3 transport aircraft. The Douglas Aircraft Company Records contain administrative, financial, and legal records relating to the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1921-1945.

Dates: 1921-1945
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Theodore Jay Johnston Boeing Aircraft Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-04-22-A
Abstract

Theodore Jay Johnston (1923-2013) was born in Olympia, Washington and was a pilot with the Eighth Air Force (398th Heavy Bomb Group) during World War II. After the war, Johnston spent 37 years at Boeing, workings on a variety of projects, including the Boeing B-47 Stratojet and Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. The collection contains slides and technical documentation related to Johnston's personal history with the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the Boeing B-47 Stratojet.

Dates: 1942-2002 ; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1953
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

Series III. Aeronautical Research Files, 1916-1997

 Series
Scope and Contents The Aeronautical Research Files is the largest of all the series in the Stine Collection, consisting of about 31 cubic feet of material. Nine subseries make up this grouping: Subseries A. Aircraft, 1916-1987; Subseries B. Facilities, 1953-1997; Subseries C. International Programs, 1920-1993; Subseries D. Rockets and Missiles, 1924-1996; Subseries E. Satellites, 1957-1995; Subseries F. Spacecraft and Missions, 1946-1986; Subseries G. Space Vehicles, 1960-1993; Subseries H. Space – General,...
Dates: 1916-1997
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / G. Harry Stine Space History and Model Rocketry Collection

Series IV. Assorted

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents The Assorted series contains materials that fall outside the other themes of the collection. Some examples of items in this series include posters with photographic images from within a cockpit of a plane, humorous comics, aircraft timelines, and commemorative posters. These posters and lithographs may contain images similar to those in the aircraft series, but provide more textual information or visual elements making them unique. Items where the sole focus in the aircraft can be found in...
Dates: circa 1939-2010
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / Aviation Posters and Lithographs Collection

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