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National Air and Space Museum Archives
California Aviation Photographs [Town/Ward]
Summary
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- Collection ID:
- NASM.2010.0024
- Creators:
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Town, Thomas J.
- Dates:
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1930s
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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0.05 Cubic feet1 folder
- Repository:
Thomas J. Town was a deep sea diver and was in the U. S. Navy submarine force in the 1920s-1930s. Subsequent to his naval service, Town enrolled as a student at the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute in the late 1930s. Town later worked as an engineer at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, California. This collection consists of 35 mm black and white negatives for 42 images taken in the late 1930s at Grand Central Airport in Glendale, California and at San Jacinto, California by Thomas J. Town.
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 35 mm black and white negatives for 42 images taken in the late 1930s at Grand Central Airport in Glendale, California and at San Jacinto, California by Thomas J. Town. Aircraft depicted in the images include the Northrop A-17 (8A); Lockheed Model 10 Electra; Seversky P-35; Boeing Model 247; Vultee V1-A; North American BT-9 Yale; Martin (Glenn L.) B-10 (Model 139); Curtiss Condor T-32 (Condor II); and the Tupolev ANT-25 (RD) piloted by Mikhail Gromoff during the Moscow, USSR to San Jacinto, California transpolar flight of 1937. In addition to the negatives, the collection also includes contact sheets showing each image. The contact sheets include some identification information.
Arrangement
Arrangement
Collection is in original order.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Thomas J. Town was a deep sea diver and was in the U. S. Navy submarine force in the 1920s-1930s. Subsequent to his naval service, Town enrolled as a student at the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute in the late 1930s. During this time, Town photographed numerous aircraft at the Grand Central Airport in Glendale, California and also took photographs at San Jacinto, California of the Tupolev ANT-25 (RD) piloted by Mikhail Gromoff during his 1937 transpolar flight. Town later worked as an engineer at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, California where he gave the negatives in this collection to a fellow engineer, Bruce R. Ward.
Administration
Author
Jessamyn Lloyd
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bruce R. Ward, Gift, 2010, NASM.2010.0024
Processing Information
Arranged and described by Jessamyn Lloyd in 2010, encoded by Jessamyn Lloyd in 2020.
Digital Content
Using the Collection
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Conditions Governing Access
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Preferred Citation
California Aviation Photographs [Town/Ward], NASM.2010.0024, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Keywords
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