Willa B. Brown Photograph
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bulk 1925-1935
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0.05 Cubic Feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0095
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This full-length studio portrait photograph features early African American pilot Willa B. Brown, posed in her flying suit photograph. The photograph was taken somewhere between 1925 and 1935 in Chicago, Illinois.
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bulk 1933-1993
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0.05 Cubic Feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2005.0019
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Janet Waterford Bragg (1907-1993), became one of America's first black women pilots after enrolling in the Curtiss Wright Aeronautical School in 1933. There she helped form the Challenger Air Pilots Association, which later evolved into the Coffey School of Aeronautics. Bragg's career in aviation was made in spite of discrimination, of both her gen...
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National Air and Space Museum. Aeronautics Division
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1978-2010
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-172
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting updates to the "Black Wings" exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum as well as educational outreach, publications, research, special events, and other activities pertaining to groundbreaking African American aviators. The "Black Wings" exhibition opened in 1982 in the Pioneers of Flight ...
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Malick, Emory Conrad.
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1888-2010
bulk 1910-1928
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2010.0034
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Emory Conrad Malick was the first African-American aviator to earn a pilot's license in the United States. This collection consists of copies of records relating to Malick including copies of photographs, correspondence, and other documents.
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Aiken, William Sr., 1907-
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1907-1980
bulk 1935-1974
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0.45 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1997.0024
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains Pilot Log Books, photographs, newspaper clippings, California Civil Air Patrol documents, financial and personal records, an autobiographical manuscript and negatives, all pertaining to William Aiken, his family and friends.
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National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
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c. 1983
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2 sound recordings (audio cassette)
1 Linear foot ((1 box))
0.05 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- ACMA.03-016
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Anacostia Community Museum Archives
In the 1980s, the National Air and Space Museum created an exhibit, with a correlating text called Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation. The exhibit and book were dedicated to the American Black Aviator, who has anonymously played a historic role in shaping the growth of modern aviation. Black Wings encompasses the men and women who had to o...
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Smithsonian Institution, Resident Associates Program, African American Studies Center
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1986-1992
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 96-121
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of program materials for the African American Studies Center in the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program (RAP). Most records are correspondence, memoranda, notes and reports to and from Jacqueline Hicks Grazette, Program Manager, concerning her contacts with African American speakers, entrepreneurs, authors, and local ...
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National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
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[ca. 1920s-1980s]
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3.72 Cubic Feet ((3 records center boxes) (1 legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1993.0060
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection is a product of the material gathered for the book and exhibit, and includes additional information gathered for research but not used in either. The collection is divided into the six following series: 1. The book 2. The exhibit 3. The symposium 4. Biographical files 5. Subject file and study materials 6. Miscellaneous photographs....
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White, Dale L., Sr., 1899-1977
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1932-2013
bulk 1932-1939
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2.26 Linear Feet (2 legal-sized boxes; 1 flat box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2013.0050
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Dale L., White, Sr., Papers consist of material relating to the aviation career of Dale L. White, Sr., including his attendance at the Curtiss Wright Aeronautical University and his piloting of the "Goodwill Flight" from Chicago, Illinois, to Washington, DC, to lobby for African-Americans to be able to join the US Army Air Corps. The bulk of the collection covers his flying years between 1932 and 1941, though personal materials from a later date are also included. Materials included are photographs, negatives, telegrams, a scrapbook, aeronautical textbooks, aeronautical notebook, DVDs, newspaper and magazine articles, pilot log books, pilot licenses, and related information.
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National Air and Space Museum. Space History Division
- Dates:
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1992-1998
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 03-079
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of materials created and maintained by David H. DeVorkin, Senior Curator, documenting the video "Pathways to the Skies" produced by the National Air and Space Museum for Project SMART. Project SMART was led by George R. Carruthers, Physicist, to encourage minority youths to become interested in science, math, and techno...