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correspondence

 Subject

Staff Only
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 165 Collections and/or Records:

Robert R. and Canadette Dickson Museum of Flight Scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2023-00-00-54
Contents of the Collection

The Robert R. and and Canadette Museum of Flight Scrapbook is a single-item collection, created by Robert R. and Canadette Dickson and documents their involvement with The Museum of Flight and related restoration projects from 1978-1987. The scrapbook includes clippings, printed ephemera, and photographs. Topics include the Boeing Model 80A restoration, Pathfinder Awards, and Red Barn. Some pages and materials are quite loose and/or fragile.

Dates: 1978-1987
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Lorraine L. (Coccio) Ditsworth Western Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2009-02-20
Contents of the Collection The Lorraine L. (Coccio) Ditsworth Western Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of textual materials and photographs collected by Ditsworth during her 1953-1956 service as a Western Airlines (WA) flight attendant.The textual materials include three logs which contain notes about Ditsworth's flights, 1953-1956; several "Orchid letters" (complimentary letters) about Ditsworth and her service to passengers; assorted documents related to her employment with...
Dates: 1951-1956
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Edward Doelker Northwest Airlines Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2023-09-19
Contents of the Collection The Edward Doelker Northwest Airlines Collection is comprised of textual materials collected by Edward Doelker during his career in equipment services for Northwest Airlines (NWA), 1961-1997. The bulk of the collection is personnel records, including work-related correspondence, performance appraisals and certificates of commendation, grievance claims and appeals, and Northwest Airline company policies. There is also a small amount of NWA ephemera, including luggage tags, a notepad, and a...
Dates: 1961-1997, undated
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

Hazel M. (Archibald) Draper Scrapbook Page

 Collection — Box Assorted World War I Oversize Box 1, oversize: folders 1
Identifier: 2021-00-00-37
Content Description The Hazel M. (Archibald) Draper Scrapbook Page is a small collection consisting of one oversize scrapbook page documenting Draper's time serving with the Red Cross and her brother Norman Archibald's military service during World War I.The scrapbook page inludes: a clipping of the masthead from the Seattle Sunday Times from June 14, 1919 promoting an article by Draper; a clipping from the June 29, 1919 Seattle Sunday...
Dates: 1918-1920
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Charles W. Drew World War I Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-02-17
Abstract

Charles Wallace Drew (1896-1979) served as a pilot with the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I, and later worked as an airport engineer. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, clippings, and other materials relating to Drew's wartime experience.

Dates: 1902-1979; Majority of material found within 1917-1925
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Muriel McAllister Dunn Pan American Airways Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1999-08-17
Contents of the Collection The Muriel McAllister Dunn Pan American Airways Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection comprised of textual materials relating to Dunn's 1953-1957 flight attendant career with Pan American World Airways (Pan Am). The materials were collected by Dunn during her employment and include correspondence discussing stewardess requirements; employee training materials, including a manual that includes sections on meal service, DC-6 and DC-7 aircraft information, meteorology,...
Dates: 1953-1957
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Edmond B. Abbott Pan Am Airways Clipper Photograph Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1991-09-23-A
Contents of the Collection

The Edmond B. Abbott Pan Am Airways Clipper Photograph Collection is a small collection that consists of correspondence from Edmund Abbott to Aggie and John Diebold in 1984 along with two black-and-white 7x9" photographs of Pan American's amphibious Clipper aircraft, taken in Florida, 1937. One photograph features a Pan Am Airways Sikorsky S-42 on a runway. The other photograph features a Pan Am Airways Sikorsky S-40 docked with passengers boarding.

Dates: 1937, 1984
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Charlotte Eising Boeing 80-A Crash Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2021-05-11
Content Description The Charlotte Eising Boeing 80-A Crash Collection is a small collection of materials relating to the crash of a Boeing 80-A (tail number NC225M) in June 1930 in Wyoming. The collection includes five photographs of the crash. The 3x5.5" black-and-white prints are mounted on black paper and are significantly discolored. There is also a letter to M. Catharine Holby from A.G. Kinsman of Boeing Air Transport, Inc. regarding items lost in the crash; a business card for Kinsman; and a small...
Dates: 1930 June
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Halden H. Emrick Pilot Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1989-02-16
Abstract

The collection contains materials relating to Halden H. Emrick's personal life and varied aviation career as a pilot's instructor during World War I, chief pilot for Curtiss-Wright and other aircraft companies, and a stunt pilot during the heyday of barnstorming in the 1920s and 1930s.

Dates: circa 1914-1975; Majority of material found within 1920-1949
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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