correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
The Becvar Family Aviation Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1992-07-24
Abstract
George Becvar (1909-1990) was born in Denver, Colorado and with his brothers Lou (1908-1984) and Chuck (1904-1986) started Kent Flying Service which ran from approximately 1927-1930 in Kent, Washington. The collection consists of the pilot logbook for George Becvar and a scrapbook that primarily covers George Becvar's 1927-1931 flying career.
Dates:
1927-1990
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Florence McEvoy Photographs of Charles Lindbergh
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2019-09-21
Contents of the Collection
The Florence McEvoy Photographs of Charles Lindbergh is a small collection comprised of seven black-and-white photographs taken just prior to the start of Charles Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight. Six of the photographs were taken by Florence McEvoy, who lived in Rockville Centre, Long Island, and saw the aircraft, presumably at nearby Roosevelt Airfield. Most of the prints depict Lindbergh's Ryan NYP aircraft, The Spirit of St. Louis. It is shown in a...
Dates:
1927 May 19
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives