Alfred Edward Moore Collection
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- Creators:
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Hazen, Henry Allen, 1849-1900
Moore, Alfred Edward
- Dates:
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1886-1887
- Size:
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2019.0009
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of two letters from Henry Allen Hazen to Alfred Edward Moore as well as two news clippings.
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Piloty, Elisabeth, b. 1924
- Dates:
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1951
- Size:
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0.02 Cubic feet (1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2019.0041
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of memorabilia relating to Elisabeth Piloty's flight aboard a Pan American Airways (Pan Am) Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser from Frankfurt, Germany to New York in August 1951.
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National Air and Space Museum, Dept. of Aeronautics
- Dates:
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1971-1988
- Size:
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 07-141
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession documents exhibitions created by the Aeronautics Division for the opening of the National Air and Space Museum in 1976 as well as updates, revisions, and new exhibitions in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This accession also documents exhibitions at the smaller museum located at the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, ...
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Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909-
- Dates:
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1969-1970
- Size:
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0.45 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0603
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of manuscripts and articles written by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, in which he refutes Whitehead's claims. The collection contains the following manuscripts: 'The Flight Claims of Gustave Whitehead,' 'Gustave Whitehead: His Flight-Claims and his Place in History,' 'Gustave Whitehead,' 'Reflections on the Whitehead Claims to Pow...
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- Dates:
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June 12, 1939, through April 22, 1940
bulk June 28, 1939, through July 4, 1939
- Size:
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0.33 Cubic feet (1 scrapbook)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0309
- Repository:
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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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El-Baz, Farouk
- Dates:
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circa 1965-1983
- Size:
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74.67 cu. ft. (54 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes) (4 16x20 boxes) (2 3x5 boxes) (7 5x8 boxes) (18 tall document boxes) (28 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7415
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers primarily document Farouk El-Baz's work at Bellcomm, his lunar studies and work with the United States Apollo program, and his participation in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Program, in which astronauts in space studied the earth's deserts. Also included is his Desert Bibliography. Papers include correspondence and memoranda, minutes of m...
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Jarecki, Franciszek, 1931-
- Dates:
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undated
- Size:
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0.23 Cubic feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2002.0022
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one Polish Air Force pilot's certificate; one pilot grade certificate; one copy of LIFE Magazine, dated April 6, 1953, featuring an article by Jarecki on his flight; on copy of This Week Magazine for August 23, 1953, with Jarecki's flight as cover story; one photocopied article from the Erie Daily Times, September 30, 1985; one photograph of a meeting of businessmen in the White House's Oval Office that includes Jarecki; one photograph of Frank Jarecki, Francis S. Gabreski, and James H. Doolittle; and the front page of the New York Times, dated March 6, 1953, matted on cardboard.
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Lenkowsky, Mandel
- Dates:
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1935-1952
- Size:
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2.18 Cubic feet (2 records center boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1989.0099
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes notebooks containing scientific notes and mathematical calculations, a random assortment of journals and periodicals, published reference books, and a few advertising and promotional brochures all pertaining to American experimental military and commercial vertical flight from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. The collection also contains photographs of the following helicopters: Sikorsky XR-1, XR-4, YR-4, XR-5, XR-6, XR-6A, VS-300; Kellet XO-60 and XO-61; and Rotachute P-4. Also included are photographs of helicopters by Pitcarin, Landgraf, Greyhound Bus, Spratt, Berliner, Ochmichen, and DeBothezat.
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- Creators:
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National Air and Space Museum
- Dates:
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1990-1991
- Size:
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0.58 cu. ft. (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-155
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of laserdisc versions of films produced for the National Air and Space Museum. The laserdisc versions were created by Lumivision Corporation from existing IMAX Corporation films. "To Fly!" celebrates the fulfillment of man's ancient dream of flight, chronicling man's successful attempt to overcome time and distance ...
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- Creators:
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National Air and Space Museum. Exhibits Design Division
- Dates:
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2001-2005
- Size:
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 14-105
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting a short play, titled "Twelve Seconds that Changed the World," that was performed live in the exhibition Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age. The play, performed several times per day on Wednesdays and Saturdays, consisted of three five-minute scenes that offered a personal, in...