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Air pilots

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 140 Collections and/or Records:

Floyd R. Daniel Boeing Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2010-01-20
Contents of the Collection The Floyd R. Daniel Boeing Collection is comprised of materials relating to Daniel’s 26-year career as photographer and videographer at the Boeing Company. The collection primarily consists of photographic materials and assorted documents relating to Daniel’s career, as well as seven films, all ranging from the late 1920s to early 1960s.The photographs, which are comprised of 95 black-and-white prints, nine color prints, 22 negatives, and three transparencies, consist of official...
Dates: 1920s-1960s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Thomas B. Davis Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1997-04-18
Content Description The Thomas B. Davis Collection documents Davis’s career with the U.S. Navy and Pacific Northern Airlines with textual and visual materials primarily from 1940s-1960s. A small amount of materials, including log books and photographs, document Davis’s service during World War II. The bulk of the collection relates to Davis’s career as a commercial airline pilot with Pacific Northern Airlines, including certificates, manuals, and training materials. Another man, Frank L....
Dates: Majority of material found within 1940s to 1980s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Clarence DeGiers photographic portrait

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2018-10-01
Contents of the Collection

The collection is a single undated 8x10" sepia-toned photographic portrait of Clarence DeGiers, an early aviation pioneer and the first pilot ever to fly in Panama, by an unknown photographer. The portrait was possiby used as inspiration for a portrait painting of DeGiers by artist Justin Gruelle.

Dates: undated
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Early Aviation Photograph Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: 2022-00-00-37
Overview

The Early Aviation Photograph Collection is a collection of unknown origins consisting of 328 prints and 299 negatives, all black-and-white, primarily depicting aircraft from the first half of the 20th century. Some airships, airports, pilots, and other subjects are also represented in the images.

Dates: 1907- circa 1960s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Early Aviators Photograph

 Collection — Box Assorted Rare Collections Box 1
Identifier: 1984-06-15-A
Contents of the Collection

The collection is comprised of a single black-and-white photograph. The image includes, from left to right, Art Goebel, Otto Timm, Charles Lindbergh, and Wally Pinero standing in front of an obscured aircraft. Handwritten underneath each man is their last name and the phrase "As of 1928." Next to Timm's head is a handwritten note "O.W. Timm." The photograph has been autographed by Wally Pinero, next to his likeness, in 1939.

Dates: 1928
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Duncan Emery Charles Lindbergh Photograph Collection

 Collection — Box Assorted Rare Oversize Box 2, oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 1987-11-03
Contents of the Collection The Duncan Emery Charles Lindbergh Photograph Collection is a small collection of three photographs that depict aviator Charles Lindbergh, circa 1927-1930. One 8x10-inch hand-tinted print is glued to 11x14-inch cardboard and depicts Lindbergh, Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles, and interpreter Colonel Alexander J. MacNab on the steps of a building. It is undated but is likely December 1927 during Lindbergh’s Good Will tour. The other two prints are both...
Dates: circa 1927-1930
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

Fern B. Lenox Evans Pilot Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2024-07-22-A
Contents of the Collection The Fern B. Lenox Evans Pilot Collection is a small collection that pertains to the pilot career of Fern B. Evans, circa 1940s-1950s. It includes identification cards, such as Evans' pilot licenses as well as medical certificates; a Commercial Pilot examination kit; and assorted maps and charts. There are also four modern digital reprint black-and-white photographs: two portraits of Evans with an aircraft, one portrait of Evans without an aircraft, and a 1951 group portrait of the Radar...
Dates: circa 1940s-1950s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Edwin Fogelman Early Aviation Scrapbook

 Collection — Box Scrapbook Box 42, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: 2018-00-00-124
Contents of the Collection The Edwin Fogelman Early Aviation Scrapbook is a small collection composed primarily of 45 black-and-white vintage prints and photographic postcards as well as a small amount of textual items related to early aviators and aircraft, 1925-1929. The scrapbook was likely compiled by Edwin Fogelman, but it is unknown if he had any direct tie-ins with aviation beyond interest. The bulk of the collection and materials of most interest are the 45 photographs. The photographs depict early...
Dates: 1925-1929
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Manny Gorin Wright Brothers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-11-21-and-2007-05-30-B
Overview

The Manny Gorin Wright Brothers Collection consists of photographic prints and postcards relating to the Wright Brothers and their expositions in France, circa 1908-1910s.

Dates: circa 1908-1910s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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