Octave Chanute Collection [Avery]
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- Creators:
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Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910
- Dates:
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1886-1926
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0.45 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0489
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection consists of newspaper clippings dating from 1886-1926; correspondence from Sept. 1904-September 1922; glass negatives and lantern slides; publications dating from 1886-1910; and a variety of photographs. Images represented include the Chanute biplane hang glider used in St. Louis in 1904, miscellaneous gliders, Chanute's gliding expe...
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Rhonie (Hofheimer), Aline
- Dates:
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bulk 1920s-1990s
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2 Cubic feet ((4 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0043
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 2 cubic feet of material relating to Aline Rhonie's aviation and art exploits, including her famous aviation mural, "The Pre-Lindbergh Era of Flying on Long Island", which was located in Hangar F at Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York. There is also much material relating to Rhonie's war efforts, including material ...
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Means, James, 1853-1920
- Dates:
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1892-1913
bulk 1895-1897
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1.8 Cubic feet ((4 legal document boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0394
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection consists of correspondence and scrapbooks. The correspondence is arranged into 15 sub-series: Aerial Experiment Association, Aero Club of America, Aero Club of Washington, Aeronautic Society of New York, Aeronautical Annuals, Octave Chanute and his daughters, Glenn Curtiss, House Resolution #7653, Ernest Jones, Otto Lilienthal, Henry...
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Copland, Harry Depew, 1896-1976
- Dates:
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1917-1953
- Size:
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0.78 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box) (3 shoeboxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0439
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of three boxes of 4' and 3' glass slides, dating from the early 1930s. The slides are probably from 1919-1932 when Copland was an instructor and lecturer for Curtiss Flying Service, Inc. There are also seven log books chronicling both Copland's civilian and military flights (1917-1942) and numerous private and commerical pi...
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- Dates:
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1885-1934
- Size:
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3.25 Linear feet
1.12 Cubic feet (1 legal size document box, 1 flat oversize box, 4 microfilm boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2004.0007
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of material relating to Walter Wellman's polar explorations (1894-1909) and the role his brother, Arthur Wellman, played in managing the base camp on Dane's Island during the 1909 attempt to reach the North Pole by air.
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Lowe, Thaddeus S. C.
- Dates:
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bulk 1862-1895
1862-1965
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0.49 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2011.0025
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Thaddeus S. C. Lowe Family Photographs Collection contains material from the post-Civil War activities of aeronaut Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, his wife, Leontine Augustine Gachon Lowe, and their family.
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- Dates:
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bulk 1922
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2013.0015
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 45 black and white photographs, mostly 6.5 by 8.5 inches or 9 by 11 inches. Most of the photographs are aerial shots of the Washington, DC, area from 1922, including the following sites: Washington Monument (with aircraft exhibited about base); White House; Lincoln Memorial; United States Capitol; Union Station; Mount Ve...
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bulk 2013
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36 digital prints
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2013.0032
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 36 original digital illustrations drawn for, and used in, NASM's Time and Navigation Exhibit.
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Relyea, Eleanor
- Dates:
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bulk 1909-1940
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet ((2 folders))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2004.0050
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the following items copied from Mrs. Eleanor Relyea's album: eleven black and white 8 by 11 inch copy prints of early Air Service photography, including images of the Wright Military Flyer at Fort Myer, a portrait of Glenn Curtiss, images of air-to-air refueling, and images of General William L. "Billy" Mitchell with Gen...
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De Haan, Larry
- Dates:
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bulk 1945
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0046
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
EThis collection consists of seventeen negatives, with corresponding prints, of the military aircraft on display at the 1945 Air Forces Fair at Wright Field. The following German and American military aircraft were included: Junkers Ju 388; Junkers Ju 290 A; Bachem BA 349 B-1 Natter; Messerschmitt Me 262 and Me 163B; Heinkel He 162; Northrop MX-324...