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National Air and Space Museum. Space History Division
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1960-2008
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10.30 cu. ft. (10 record storage boxes) (2 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-267
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the relocation and restoration of three Saturn V rockets the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) acquired from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the early 1970s, when the Apollo Space Program concluded. One rocket, consisting entirely of stages and spacecraft intended to be lau...
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June 14, 1927
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0.05 Cubic feet (2 items)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0362
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of an invitation to and a menu (program booklet) from the "WE" banquet sponsored by the Mayor's Committee on Receptions held at the Hotel Commodore in New York City on June 16, 1927, commemorating Charles A. Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight.
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Scott, Blanche Stuart, 1889-1970
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1911-1969
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0.75 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0062
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of memorabilia relating to Blanche Stuart Scott. The material includes her certificates, membership cards, and ribbons, as well as a collection of newspaper clippings dating from 1939-1969.
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National Air and Space Museum. Division of Exhibits and Public Spaces
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circa 1973-1984 and undated
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 08-079
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of images documenting the exhibition, Milestones of Flight; the Albert Einstein Spacearium; the Samuel P. Langley Theater; a model for the National Air and Space Museum Building restaurant addition; a conceptual drawing for the Dulles Extension; the 1982 exposition; and various other installations and artwork. Mate...
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1920s
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0.33 Cubic feet (One slim document box and one 36 by 49 inch folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2020.0003
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the material documenting Jules and Frank VanDersarl's aircraft and aviation activities.
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Hardesty, Von, 1939-
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1876-2006
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26 Linear feet
30.81 Cubic feet (53 legal-size document boxes, 1 slim legal-size document box, 1 flat box )
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2006.0034
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Russian Aeronautical Collection is a mix of technical, historical, and cultural reference materials, including originals or copies of articles, documents and other historical materials relating to Russian and Soviet aviation from the Tsarist period through the Soviet era. The collection focuses on key events, personalities and aircraft designs, and certain subject areas are covered in depth, including the life and career of Igor Sikorsky, the transpolar flights of the 1930s, Soviet aviation in the Spanish Civil War, and the operational history of the Soviet Air Force in World War II.
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1906-1948
bulk 1907-1928
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0.5 Cubic feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0079
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection contains letters, telegrams, brochures, photographs and miscellaneous ephemera pertaining to Orville and Wilbur Wright. Included with the correspondence are letters written to William J. Hammer, who was an aeronautical pioneer and associated with the Wright Brothers, as well as other individuals including C. R. Peterkin. Additional i...
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McMullen, Alexis B.
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1915-1983
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28.15 Cubic feet (25 records center boxes; 2 legal document boxes; 1 flatbox)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1990.0060
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection spans A.B. McMullen's aviation career and interests, from his involvement in WWI until his death. This collection includes correspondence, both personal and business, reports/material from his aviation corporations/distributorships and stint as Director of Florida Aviation and career in the NASAO. Also included are photographs, arti...
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Claudy, C. H. (Carl Harry), 1879-1957
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1906-1910
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1.95 Cubic feet (1 legal document box; 2 flat boxes; 13 clamshells)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0549
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of nearly 250 glass plates, several folders of prints, and two boxes of glass plate envelopes affixed with small prints of the image formerly contained within them. The subject matter of the photography is primarily concerned with Alexander Graham Bell's tetrahedral experiments of 1906, flights of the Thomas Baldwin dirigible and the United States Signal Corps SC-1 free balloon (1908), and the Wright Flyer Army Trials at Fort Meyer, Virginia (1908 and 1909).
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Knabenshue, A. Roy (Augustus Roy), 1876-1960
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circa 1890s-1960s
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3.6 Cubic feet (8 legal document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0136
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection contains approximately three and a half cubic feet of material relating to the life and career of A. Roy Knabenshue. The collection includes correspondence, photographic material, drawings of aircraft, and flight records.