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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Sanford Aviation Insurance Collection
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0623
- Creators:
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Sanford, Charles A.
- Dates:
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1918-1982bulk 1920-1939
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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1.07 Linear feet1.22 Cubic feet1 legal size document box; 1 slim legal size document box
- Repository:
This collection consists of materials related to the infant aviation insurance business of the 1920s and 1930s.
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection range from quote books, samples of insurance policies from various companies, correspondence between executives of aviation insurance companies, a monograph, insurance magazines, and invitations to dinners given in honor of aviation pioneers such as
Rear Adm. Richard Evelyn Byrd
. Sanford and his wife also wrote a brief, unpublished history of aviation insurance in 1981, and this paper is also included in the collection.Arrangement
Arrangement
This collection was arranged in chronological order.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
The donor of the collection, Charles A. Sanford, worked for
Aero Insurance Underwriters
, one of the largest aviation insurance companies in the world, during the 1930s. Sanford offers detailed notes regarding aviation insurance from his firsthand knowledge of the subject.Administration
Author
Tyler Love
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Charles A. Sanford, unknown, unknown
Processing Information
Charles Sanford included notes to explain some of the material. The archivist created file units from like materials. The archivist tried to title the file units based on Sanford's notes; the archivists' titles appear in brackets.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
No restrictions on access
Preferred Citation
Sanford Aviation Insurance Collection, Acc. XXXX-0623, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
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.
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Correspondence | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Insurance, Aviation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Publications | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Aeronautics, Commercial -- United States | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Financial records | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Articles | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Aeronautics, Commercial | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Aeronautics | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Periodicals | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Aero Insurance Underwriters | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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