Photograph of Amelia Earhart in Londonderry, Northern Ireland
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May 1932
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1083
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Amelia Mary Earhart (1897-1937) was the first woman to fly (as a passenger) across the Atlantic (1928). On May 29-21, 1932, she made a solo transatlantic flight (Harbor Grace, Newfoundland to Londonderry, Northern Ireland). This collection consists of a photograph of Earhart taken after her landing in Londonderry.
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1928
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0824
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Hermann Koehl, Baron Guenther von Huenefeld, and James Fitzmaurice piloted the first westward transatlantic flight (1928), from Dublin, Ireland to Greenly Island, Quebec in the "Bremen", a Junkers W-33 monoplane. This collections consists of a signed photograph and a commemorative postcard of the flight.
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Smith, Richard K.
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circa 1918-1969
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1.9 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0418
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The 50th Anniversary of the NC-4 Transatlantic Flight Collection [Smith] Collection contains photocopies of correspondence, published materials, maps, and photographs. The collection also includes photocopies of aircraft logs, naval ship logs, weather reports, progress reports, biographies of the participants, information on the construction of the NC Aircraft and the general planning for the flight, and original material on the thirtieth and fiftieth anniversaries of the flight.
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Prescott, Gardner Hinckley
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June 30, 1936
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0.01 Cubic feet (One legal folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2020.0030
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a handwritten letter, dated June 30, 1936 and on Hotel Graf Zeppelin stationery, from Gardner Hinckley Prescott to his mother, Evelyn Munroe Prescott, recounting his trip on the Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg departing on June 23, 1936 from New Jersey for Germany
This collection is in English.
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Fliedner, Carlisle S.
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1916-1919
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0.25 Cubic feet ((1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0047
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This scrapbooks holds photographs of Carlisle S. Fliedner 's personal experiences and eyewitness accounts of World War I. Included in the scrapbook are photographs of construction of the United States Navy Air Station in Panillac, Gironde, France. Also included in this collection are photographs of World War I seaplanes, Curtiss twin flying boats, ...
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Smithsonian Institution
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circa 1927-1950
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25 cu. ft. (25 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-143
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of motion pictures created by, acquired by, or about the Smithsonian Institution and its staff. Highlights of the collection include footage related to the Charles Lindbergh transatlantic flight and the Lindbergh baby; footage of Native American sign language; footage from archeological expeditions in Arizona, Colo...
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June 12, 1939, through April 22, 1940
bulk June 28, 1939, through July 4, 1939
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 scrapbook)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0309
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a scrapbook, "To Europe By Air," assembled by railroad executive William J. Eck to document his trip June 28 to July 4, 1939, on Pan American Airways' (PAA) first transatlantic passenger flight on the Boeing Model 314 Clipper "Dixie Clipper" flying boat and containing information on its crew, passengers, and ports of call.
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Seypelt, Albert Willibald, -1966
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1892-1941
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0.9 Cubic feet ((2 legal document boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1985.0011
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and motion picture film documenting the Seypelt-Kern flight. The material also includes Seypelt's aviation licenses and certificates, as well as photographs documenting his enlistment in the German army during World War I. The collection also contains material on the first westward transatlantic flight (1928), from Ireland to Labrador by 'Bremen', a Junkers W-33 monoplane piloted by Hermann Koehl, Baron Guenther von Huenefeld, and James Fitzmaurice. The collection also contains one 16mm film on the flight of the "Yankee Doodle."
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bulk 1927
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1135
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of four pieces of sheet music for songs written in honor of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, all dating from 1927. The details of the sheet music is as follows: "Lindy," words and music by Daniel McLellan, a stylized drawing of an airplane in flight appears on the back cover; "Lucky Lindy!," words by L. Wolfe Gilbert and music b...
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bulk 1922
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1988.0091
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This accession includes a map of the flight and seven photographs. Two photos are of the Fairey IIID Mk. II Seaplane "Lusitânia," Three are of the Fairey IIID Seaplane "Santa Cruz," the airplane which made the flight, and one of those three includes the pilots, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho and Artur de Sacadura Cabral. The remaining two photos are o...
