Ernest Smith/Emory Bronte Flight Scrapbook
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- Creators:
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Smith, Ernest
Bronte, Emory
- Dates:
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1917-1975
bulk 1927
- Size:
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1.11 Cubic feet (1 flatbox, 1 folder, and 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0389
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
On July 14-15, 1927, Ernest Smith and Emory Bronte made the first civilian transpacific flight from California to Hawaii. This collection includes a scrapbook that chronicles their flight, a map of the Hawaiian islands, and a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Emory Bronte.
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Rockwell International
- Dates:
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1976-1981
- Size:
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5.68 Cubic feet ((1 slim legal document box) (5 records center boxes) (2 flatboxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1989.0059
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of documentation on the NASM HiMAT. The material includes correspondence, color photographs, test information, computer programs, printouts, punch tapes, and schematics.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Ames Research Center
- Dates:
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[ca. 1980s]
- Size:
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1.54 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box) (1 records center box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1999.0005
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the documentation that accompanied the donation of the helmet to the Museum. The following types of material were included: zip disc containing HMD project documents and applications; magazines containing articles relating to this project; 11 VHS format videotapes; technical manuals; and one oversized diagram.
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United States. Army. Air Service
- Dates:
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1920-1925
- Size:
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3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0152
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of correspondence, memos, newspaper articles and logbooks concerning the flight.
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- Dates:
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1924
- Size:
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0.58 Cubic feet (2 shoeboxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1999.0061
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Between 6 April and 28 September 1924 a flight of specially designed Douglas aircraft operated by the United States Army Air Service completed the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe. Two of the four Douglas World Cruisers completed the 27,000 mile trip in 371 hours, 11 minutes flying time. This collection of sixty-nine 3 by 4 inch glass lantern slides appears to be a prepared set chronicling the flight.
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bulk 1940-1946
- Size:
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0.28 Cubic feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2018.0039
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of material relating to Frederick C. Phillips and the Martin (Glenn L.) (JRM) XPB2M-1R Mars (Model 170) endurance flight in October 1943 including several scrapbook pages, photographs, and a technical report on the flight. The scrapbook pages contain various items including additional technical information, news clippings, ...
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Page, George Augustus, Jr., 1892-1983
- Dates:
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bulk Circa 1920
- Size:
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0.24 Cubic feet (1 flat box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0341
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This album consists of photographs relating to sightseeing flights offered in a Curtiss Eagle I aircraft in Washington, DC, beginning in autumn 1920.
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- Dates:
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May 1932
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1083
- Repository:
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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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Page, Charles R.
- Dates:
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1940
- Size:
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0.1 Cubic feet ((1 scrapbook))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1988.0110
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a scrapbook continuing the detailed personal account of Page's flight. Page recorded daily his impressions of this flight and then supplemented his writings with photographs, newspaper clippings, certificates, and Pan Am publicity materials. Also included is a copy of Wings to the Orient by James G. Stahlman, which is in...
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- Creators:
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Miller, W. T.
- Dates:
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bulk 1936 - 1940, 1970
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2011.0006
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a file of correspondence, telegrams, official Coast Guard dispatches from the USS Itasca, newspaper and reports relating to the planning of Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight and the naval search for her after her disappearance. The file contains correspondence signed by George Putnam and some of the correspondence relates to ...
