David M. Brown Papers
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Brown, David M.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States. Navy
- Dates:
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1970-2005
bulk 1980-2002
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11.76 Cubic feet (33 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0013
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The David M. Brown Papers consist of almost twelve cubic feet of archival material documenting his career as a U.S. Navy flight surgeon, naval aviator, and NASA astronaut. It includes Brown's diaries, manuals, checklists, certificates, workbooks, notebooks, and related training materials.
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- Dates:
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January 4, 2009
- Size:
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0.67 Gigabytes (33 digital image files)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2022.0021
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 33 color digital images made by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM) Space History curator Margaret Weitekamp on January 4, 2009, during her collecting trip to the space-themed Astroland Park at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, four months after amusement park had closed to the public. The images include views of Astroland signage and rides as well as several hand-made signs affixed to security fencing by the members of the public.
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Tilton, Edward Lee, III.
- Dates:
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1950s-2000s
- Size:
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10.45 Cubic feet ((9 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2014.0014
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 8.86 cubic feet of records relating to Edward Lee Tilton, III's career in the aerospace field. The bulk of the material pertains to Tilton's time at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), although Tilton's time at GE and the MITRE Corporation are represented as well. Types of material in ...
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Haydu, Bernice Falk
- Dates:
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1944-1980
bulk 1944-1949
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0.45 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0077
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This accession includes photographs, logos, newsletters, yearbooks, a WASP songbook, membership rosters, and several miscellaneous items.
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National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History
- Dates:
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circa 1976-1990
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11.8 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 479
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit documents the curation of the Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age exhibition by Paul E. Ceruzzi of the Department of Space History. It includes the concept and label script, correspondence with donors, material concerning funding, reports, plans, photographs, and material concerning the design and production ...
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Haydu, Bernice Falk
- Dates:
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1942-1944
- Size:
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0.23 Cubic feet ((1 flatbox) (1 slim legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1989.0123
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection, compiled by Bernice Falk Haydu, a former WASP 44-7, contains original photographs, photocopies of photographs, class rosters, graduation data, copies of certification, a WASP songbook, an original Miss Fifinella color sketch by Walt Disney, and other related material. The photographs are all captioned with information from Mrs. Cliff Deaton, Chief Staff Executive Officer of the WASPs at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. The material has been grouped in a binder under the following subheadings: Avenger Field; Life on Base; Wishing Well: Flight Training School; Physical Education and Marching; Graduations; VIPs; and a Miscellaneous file.
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Weems, Philip Van Horn (P. V. H.)
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circa 1905-circa 2005
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101.81 Cubic feet ( 209 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2012.0052
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Philip Van Horn (P. V. H. ) Weems Papers contain 79 cu. ft. of materials related to his life and career.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Langley Research Center
- Dates:
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1964-1972
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5.85 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0104
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The supercritical wing concept was developed by Dr. Richard T. Whitcomb of the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Whitcomb's airfoil was designed to delay formation of shock waves at high speeds.
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Bellcomm, Inc.
- Dates:
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1959-1972
- Size:
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81.71 Cubic feet (222 letter document boxes, 1 slim letter document box, 4 flatboxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0093
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains the non-book portion of Bellcomm's Technical Library. The material in the collection consists of technical reports prepared by NASA subcontractors and/or NASA facilities during the first decade of space exploration (1960-1970). The collections also includes some reports issued by the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at Pasadena, CA, including Space Program and Research Summaries, as well as technical and engineering documents.
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United States. Army. Air Corps
Marx, Walter J.
- Dates:
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1942-1945
- Size:
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0.39 Cubic feet (One letter document case.)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2021.0019
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of Major Walter Marx's report History of the Women Pilots in the Air Ferrying Division, ATC along with related memoranda and rewrites. The collection also contains six color transparencies of WAFs, a memorandum discussing discrimination the WASPS faced while in Lebanon Tennessee in 1943, and the Northwest Route under the Ferrying Division Air Transport Command, June 16, 1942-November 1, 1942 Report.
This collection is in English.
