National Air and Space Museum Archives

World War I Aircraft Album Pages [Arnold]

Summary

Collection ID:
NASM.2015.0007
Creators:
Wilson, Dora Bertha
Dates:
1919
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.05 Cubic feet
1 folder
Repository:
From August 18 to September 2, 1919, the Scranton Aero Club held an aerial meet at an airfield near Clark's Summit, Pennsylvania. This collection consists of two album pages containing photographs taken at this event.

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two scrapbook pages containing nine black and white, mounted photographs. The pages measure approximately 10 by 7 inches and the photographs each measure approximately 2.75 by 4.75 inches. The photographs date to 1919 and most have a handwritten caption by Dora Bertha Wilson on the obverse. Six photographs were taken at an aerial meet held at an airfield near Clark's Summit, Pennsylvania from August 18 to September 2, 1919. Aircraft depicted in the photographs include the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny and the Dayton Wright DH-4. People depicted in the photographs include Hiram W. Sheridan (misspelled as Sheriden in the caption information) and Fred C. Nelson. The pages also include three family photographs of a young child playing outside.

Arrangement

Arrangement
Collection is in original order.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
From August 18 to September 2, 1919, the Scranton Aero Club held an aerial meet at an airfield near Clark's Summit, Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Hiram W. Sheridan flew exhibition flights in his Dayton Wright DH-4
Maple Leaf
and Lieutenant Fred C. Nelson made flights in a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny. Sheridan also attempted to set a speed record flying from Clark's Summit to Hazelhurst Field, New York. Dora Bertha Wilson is believed to have attended some part of the aerial meet as a young woman.

Administration

Author
Jessamyn Lloyd
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Thomas Arnold, Gift, 2014, NASM.2015.0007.
Processing Information
Arranged and described by Jessamyn Lloyd in 2014. Encoded by Jessamyn Lloyd in 2020.

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
World War I Aircraft Album Pages [Arnold], NASM.2015.0007, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Curtiss JN-4 Jenny Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Dayton Wright DH-4 Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Aeronautics -- Exhibitions Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photograph albums Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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