Black Wings Exhibit and Book Collection
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National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
Hardesty, Von, 1939-
- Dates:
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1917-2000
bulk 1981-1986
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13.38 Cubic feet (11 legal document boxes, 1 shoe box (5 x 8 inches), 6 records center boxes )
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1993.0060
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of background material collected in support of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM) exhibit "Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation" (opened in 1982) and its companion book (published 1983) by curators Von Hardesty and Dominick Pisano, a related symposium, educational materials, and a travelling version of the exhibit. The collection contains photographs and textual materials used in the exhibit and book, internal correspondence and memoranda, and a large amount of material gathered for research purposes but not used in any "Black Wings" production.
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Crossfield, A. Scott (Albert Scott), 1921-
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1940 - 2004
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18.71 Cubic feet (42 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0041
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of over nine cubic feet of material documenting Scott Crossfield's aviation career, with emphasis on his involvement with the North American X-15. The following types of material are included: correspondence; reel to reel tapes; papers, manuscripts; newspaper and magazine clippings; aviation manuals; photographs; film; and Crossfield's notes and reports.
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Purnell, Louis R., interviewee
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1993-1994
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13 audiotapes (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9578
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...
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Brooks, Arthur Raymond, 1895-1991
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1910-1988
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13.72 Cubic feet (31 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1989.0104
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the personal papers and memorabilia of Arthur Raymond Brooks. It includes photographs, correspondence, documents, and certificates relating to Brooks' aviation career, as well as personal correspondence, photographs, and diaries (1907-87).
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Mills, George H., 1895-1975
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circa 1920s-1950s
bulk 1930-1949
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13.39 Cubic feet (24 legal document boxes; 7 flatboxes)
14.95 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1994.0022
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The George Henry Mills Collection was donated to the National Air and Space Museum in 1994 by Mills' daughter, Mrs. Georgia Mills Head.
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Kapp, Michael
- Dates:
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1939-1977 and undated
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30.01 Cubic feet (44 legal document boxes; 9 letter document boxes; 8 audio boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0138
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of reel to reel audio tapes relating to the United States space program. The material includes recordings of events, missions, press conferences, and other happenings from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs.
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Webster, Lewis Selwyn, 1892-1957
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1917-1952
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0.79 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2010.0041
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of material relating to the long military career (1918-1948) of aviator Lewis Selwyn Webster, including five of Webster's pilot's log books as well as numerous photographs, letters, news clippings, and other documents. A small section of the collection pertains to Webster's son, Lewis Frazer Webster, who served with the U.S. Air Force and was killed in action in Korea in 1952.
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Davis, Benjamin O., Jr., 1912-
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1928-1990
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75.03 Cubic feet (168 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1992.0023
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 72 linear feet of the papers of Benjamin O. Davis. Included are the following types of material: programs, invitations, certificates, correspondence, published material, and photographs.
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Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Physical Sciences
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1944-1965
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2.5 Cubic feet (7 boxes, 1 map-folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0324
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The material includes technical notes, operating instructions and descriptions relating to projects which Hopper participated in at Harvard during and after World War II and later in the private sector. These projects involved the creation of the Navy's Mark I, II and III "mechanical calculators" (the fore runners of today's computers) and the UNI...
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Manhattan Project (U.S.)
- Dates:
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1987-1990
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29 videotapes (Reference copies). 75 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9531
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...