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"Shenandoah Saga" Photographs
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Creators:
Hook, Thomas S., 1923-
Dates:
[ca. 1920s-1960s]
Size:
0.45 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box))
Collection ID:
NASM.1985.0021
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection consists both of photographs that appear in the book as well as additional research materials, including: correspondence, printed materials, photographs, and negatives.

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George Schnitzer USS Shenandoah Collection
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Creators:
Schnitzer, George C., 1894-1925
Dates:
undated
Size:
0.3 Cubic feet ((1 box))
Collection ID:
NASM.2002.0030
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection consists of the following material relating to George Schnitzer and the USS Shenandoah: two newspaper articles from 1925; twelve photographs of the USS Shenandoah crew and the USS Shenandoah and its hangar; four letters written by Schnitzer to family members; and seven photo postcards, some hand-tinted, showing the USS Shenandoah, U...

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J. Gordon Vaeth Collection
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Creators:
Vaeth, J. Gordon (Joseph Gordon), 1921-2012
Dates:
1908-1992
Size:
1.97 Cubic feet (4 legal document boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Collection ID:
NASM.1994.0011
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection, compiled by J. Gorden Vaeth, consists of documents, reports, news clippings, scrapbooks, publications, and photographs relating to rigid and non-rigid airships worldwide.

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Digitized Content USS ZR-1 Shenandoah Crash Site Images [Guthrie]
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Dates:
1925
Size:
0.05 Cubic feet (One folder.)
Collection ID:
NASM.2001.0010
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection consists of eight copy prints of the Shenandoah Airship Crash in 1925.

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Digitized Content Shenandoah Crash Site Images
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Dates:
On or shortly after September 3, 1925.
Size:
0.01 Cubic feet (22 negatives)
Collection ID:
NASM.1996.0017
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

The first American-built rigid airship to use helium, the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1, commissioned 1923) was destroyed in a squall on September 3, 1925, with the bulk of the airship crashing near Ava, Ohio; this collection consists of 22 negatives taken at the site of crash.

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Digitized Content Naval Air Station (NAS) Lakehurst Photographs [Baldwin]
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Creators:
Baldwin, Harry Milton
Dates:
1920s
Size:
0.01 Cubic feet (1 folder)
Collection ID:
NASM.2022.0025
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

Naval Air Station (NAS) Lakehurst was acquired by the US Navy in 1921 for use as an airship station and it served as the control station for all US Navy lighter-than-air (LTA) flights until the program was terminated in 1961. Harry Milton Baldwin served in the US Navy and was stationed at NAS Lakehurst in the 1920s. This collection consists of twelve black and white photographs relating to airships at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lakehurst, New Jersey in the 1920s.

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Digitized Content Thomas G. W. "Tex" Settle Collection
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Creators:
Settle, Thomas G. W.
Dates:
bulk 1932-1998
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet ((2 boxes))
Collection ID:
NASM.2006.0014
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

This collection consists articles, correspondence, photographs, logs and scrapbooks chronicling Tex Settles' historic balloon flights.

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Garland Fulton Collection
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Creators:
Fulton, Garland, 1890-1974
Dates:
1914-1964
bulk 1918-1945
Size:
20.8 Cubic feet (45 boxes)
Collection ID:
NASM.XXXX.0101
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

The Garland Fulton Collection consists of material gathered by Captain Garland Fulton.

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Digitized Content Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Papers
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Creators:
Hunsaker, Jerome Clarke, 1886-1984
Dates:
1916-1969
Size:
8 Cubic feet (28 boxes)
Collection ID:
NASM.XXXX.0001
Repository:
National Air and Space Museum Archives

The Hunsaker Papers are rich in aeronautical information relating to the 1920s and 1930s. The material furnishes a generous account of his contributions in the aeronautics field as an engineer. Interested researchers should pursue materials pertaining to Hunsaker in such repositories as MIT's Institute Archives and Special Collections Department, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Corporation, the U.S. Navy History and Archives at the Washington Navy Yard, and the NASA History Office, Headquarters Building, Washington, DC. This archivist views the Hunsaker Papers, NASM.XXXX.0001, most relevant to research dealing with Hunsaker's professional career.

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Digitized Content George Henry Mills Collection
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Creators:
Mills, George H., 1895-1975
Dates:
circa 1920s-1950s
bulk 1930-1949
Size:
13.39 Cubic feet (24 legal document boxes; 7 flatboxes)
14.95 Linear feet
Collection ID:
NASM.1994.0022
Repository:
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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