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Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910
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1890-1911
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1.35 Cubic feet ((3 legal document boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0482
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection consists of two manuscripts by Octave Chanute, "Conditions and Success in the Design of Flying Machines" and "Recent Experiments in Gliding Flight;" and three series of correspondence. The first series, Miscellaneous Correspondence, dates from September 21, 1891 to November 2, 1911. The second series, Correspondence with Louis P. Mou...
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United States Army Balloons World War I Album
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United States. Army. Air Service. Army Balloon School
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[no year]
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0.66 Cubic feet ((1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0276
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This photo album consists of about 60 photographs documenting the activities and training at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, in 1918. Included are photographs of observation balloons from the 79th Balloon Company and Major Henry Rogers, Wing Commander. There are also views from the air and on the field of balloons and men, from Brook Field, San Antonio, Texa...
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Macaulay, Theodore C., 1887-1965
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1910-1918
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0.61 Cubic feet ((2 flatboxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0326
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
His scrapbook consists of photos gathered by Colonel Theodore C. Macaulay before and during the First World War. The photos document the various aviation training schools at which Macaulay taught including the San Diego Curtiss Flying School (1912-1914); the Royal Canadian Air Force flying school at Toronto (1914-1915); Curtiss School, Newport News...
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Toomey, Humphrey, 1900-1974
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bulk 1929 - 1933
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0.51 Cubic feet (2 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0068
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of .5 cubic ft of documentary material chronicling Humphrey Toomey's aviation career with the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line (NYRBA). The following types of material are included in this collection: Navy and Air Corps strip maps used on the Bridgeport, Connecticut to Buenos Aires flight; correspondence; telegrams; memo...
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December 27, 1927
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 black and white photograph)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1086
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one 6 x 8 inch black and white photograph of Charles A. Lindbergh posed in front of the Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis. The photograph is autographed by Lindbergh to "Captain Alan F. Winslow, Sincerely, Charles A. Lindbergh, Mexico City, Dec. 27, 1927."
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Pedersen, Ingrid, 1933-
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1960s-1990s
- Size:
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0.35 Cubic feet (1 flat box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2000.0042
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Ingrid Pedersen was a commercial pilot and flight instructor who became the first woman to pilot an aircraft over the North Pole in 1963. This collection consists of a scrapbook chronicling the aviation career of Ingrid Pedersen.
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Page, Phillips Ward, 1885-1917
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1911-1912
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0.23 Cubic feet (1 flat box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1990.0037
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Phillips Ward Page (1885--1917) was an active early pilot who assisted in the testing and development of some of the early Burgess aircraft, and taught many renowned civilian and military aviators to fly. This collection consists of a scrapbook documenting the aviation career of Phillips Ward Page during the time period from 1911 to 1912.
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Whitman, Roger B.
- Dates:
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1909-1911
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0.25 Cubic feet ((7 folders))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0517
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 163 photographs, collected by Whitman, covering early aviation activities in predominantly the United States and France. Aircraft manufacturers represented include: Wright, Curtiss, Bell, Bleriot, Antoinette, Deperdussin, Farman, Voisin, and other American, French, and British designers of the period 1909-1911. The follo...
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1927
- Size:
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0.01 Cubic feet (Legal Folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2021.0038
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of photographs taken by John Von Hagel during Charles Lindbergh's visit to Sioux City, Iowa on August 27, 1927. The visit was part of Lindbergh's Guggenheim US Goodwill Tour, which followed his historic solo nonstop transatlantic flight in the Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis.
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1909-1945
- Size:
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 slim legal document box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0376
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists mostly of correspondence between the Wright brothers and the following people: J.W. See; Ralph H. Upson; Henry Ford; Ernest Jones; Frank Coffyn; O.G. Simmons; C.R. Peterkin; Otto Mallery; Maynard; and Lester Gardner. Also included are sketches, an NAA letter signed by witnesses: Etheridge, Dough and Moore attesting to the 1903 flight, and the Wright Brothers' original bid for the military contract.
