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Whitehead, William Scholl
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1963-1976
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2.18 Cubic feet ((1 flatbox) (3 legal document boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0287
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, brochures, articles and a scrapbook dealing with this effort. Much of the correspondence is concerned with efforts to obtain support and funding for the project from private industry and the United States Congress. The scrapbook, with index, is a collection of newspaper and magazine clippings abou...
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Leon, Lawrence, 1889-1965
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1916-1923
bulk 1919-1923
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0293
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This scrapbook consists of clippings relating to Lawrence's early years, particularly his activities in South America between 1919 and 1923. Most of the clipping are from South American newspapers and are in Spanish and Portuguese. That material in the Biographical Files consists of larger format newspaper articles and copies of several letters of ...
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Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930
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1914-1915
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0.23 Cubic feet ((1 slim legal box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0294
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of two scrapbooks kept by Glenn H. Curtiss and filled with photographs of himself and Samuel Langley. The photos show the two men and their experiments with Langley's aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. The trial flights were conducted on Lake Kewka, near Hammondsport, NY. Each photo is labeled with a caption and a date. The s...
Romanian Air Meet Scrapbook
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Circa 1930
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0.18 Cubic feet (1 flatbox)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0306
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This scrapbook contains photographs of an air meet in Romania, circa 1930, with Romanian, Czechoslovakian, and Italian pilots and aircraft.
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Arnold, Rudy, 1902-1966
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circa 1920s-1950s
bulk 1920-1940
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10.91 Cubic feet (9,579 photographic items)
25.37 Linear feet (38 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0356
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Rudy Arnold (1902-1966) was introduced to photography in 1918. After studying at the New York School of Photography, he worked at the New York Journal-American and the New York Graphic. During his stint at the latter he started to focus on aviation photography. In 1928, Arnold started his own aviation photography business and worked out of the following New York air fields and airports during his career: Roosevelt Field, the old Curtiss Airport, Floyd Bennett Field, and LaGuardia Airport His coverage of a wrecked airliner in upstate New York was the first photograph sent by wire to newspapers across the country. Arnold's work appeared in every aviation magazine, house organs (Douglas, Grumman), and mass circulation magazines as well as many newspapers. He also did motion-picture camera work for Universal and Paramount.
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Groenhoff, Hans
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1933-1975
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5.27 Cubic feet (41 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0359
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Hans Groenhoff (1906-1985) was a celebrated American aviation photographer from the 1930s through the 1960s, also working as a pilot, journalist, editor, correspondent, and—in his retirement years—as an aviation tourism publicist for the Bahamas. This collection of 25,550 images consists of Groenhoff's collection of negatives and transparencies, spanning his career from 1933 to 1975.
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Moisant, Matilde, 1887-1964
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1910
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0.01 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0536
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the twelve microfiche sheets which were shot from nine scrapbooks loaned to NASM by the donor. The scrapbooks contains newspaper clippings from American, English and French newspapers relating to Moisant and his aviation activities.
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Whitman, Roger B.
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1909-1911
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0.25 Cubic feet ((7 folders))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0517
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 163 photographs, collected by Whitman, covering early aviation activities in predominantly the United States and France. Aircraft manufacturers represented include: Wright, Curtiss, Bell, Bleriot, Antoinette, Deperdussin, Farman, Voisin, and other American, French, and British designers of the period 1909-1911. The follo...
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Sheahan, William H., 1872-1956
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1912-1921
bulk 1912-1915
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0523
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 62 photographs taken by William H. Sheahan of early aircraft and aviators, mostly at Hempstead Plains Field where he took lessons.
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Arnold, Leslie P.
- Dates:
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1924
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1.32 Cubic feet (2 legal document boxes and 1 flatbox)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0518
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
In 1924, as a lieutenant in the Army Air Service, Leslie P. Arnold was a crew member in one of the three Army planes that flew 27,000 miles around the world in 175 days. This collection consists of Leslie Arnold's handwritten diary and annotated navigational charts of the journey as well as a scrapbook with images of the trip including the aircraft, gasoline tanks, pilot crew, and air-to air shots.