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Phillips Ward Page Scrapbook

Summary

Collection ID:
NASM.1990.0037
Creators:
Page, Phillips Ward, 1885-1917
Dates:
1911-1912
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.23 Cubic feet
1 flat box
Repository:
Phillips Ward Page (1885--1917) was an active early pilot who assisted in the testing and development of some of the early Burgess aircraft, and taught many renowned civilian and military aviators to fly. This collection consists of a scrapbook documenting the aviation career of Phillips Ward Page during the time period from 1911 to 1912.

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a scrapbook documenting the aviation career of Phillips Ward Page during the time period from 1911 to 1912. The scrapbook contains photographs and news clippings.
Note: Blank pages in the scrapbook, including many at the end of the book, are not digitally reproduced in the slideshow. Any gaps in numbering are due to their omission.

Arrangement

Arrangement
Collection is in original order.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Phillips Ward Page (1885--1917) was an active early pilot who assisted in the testing and development of some of the early Burgess aircraft, and taught many renowned civilian and military aviators to fly. As the Aviation Editor of the
Boston Herald
, Page was a passenger on several flight around Boston and the vicinity in the Spring of 1911. Page joined the Wright Flying School at Dayton, Ohio in July 1911, and obtained his pilot license on October 25, 1911. In November of that year he started carrying passengers and flying exhibitions on weekends, flying around the New York vicinity. He became a full time instructor for the Burgess Company of Marblehead, Massachusetts on Burgess-Wright planes, and for the winter aviation school at Daytona, Florida. Besides his teaching obligations, Page was a contestant in air meets, made test flights of new military tractors, and took the first motion pictures of Boston from the air. In 1914, Page joined the US Aviation Reserves, and enlisted as a Naval Aviator in April 1917. He was an instructor at Squantum, Massachusetts Naval Base, before being assigned to duty in France. He drowned in the English Channel in a seaplane accident on December 17, 1917.

Administration

Author
Patricia Williams
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Dorothy Miller, Gift, 1990, NASM.1990.0037
Processing Information
Arranged and described by Patricia Williams, 1990. Updated and encoded by Jessamyn Lloyd, 2022.

Digital Content


Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Use
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Preferred Citation
Phillips Ward Page Scrapbook, NASM.1990.0037, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Burgess Aircraft Family Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Burgess-Wright Aircraft Family Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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Flight training Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Aeronautics, Military Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Aeronautics, Commercial -- United States Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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Aeronautics -- Exhibitions Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Aeronautics -- 1903-1916 Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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Clippings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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Page, Phillips Ward, 1885-1917 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Burgess Co and Curtis Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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