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Caterpillar Club
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1922-1940
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1.35 Cubic feet ((3 legal document boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0576
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes photographs of most of the members, and some of their aircraft and crash sites. There are also detailed reports of each of the 700 documented emergency parachute jumps as well as newspaper articles and correspondence about the Caterpillar Club and Lt. Col. Falk Harmel, who maintained this collection.
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Institute of Aeronautical Sciences
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1910-1920
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1.82 Cubic feet ((2 flatboxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0018
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one large format scrapbook of photographic-quality photocopies of clippings relating to the life and career of Glenn L. Martin presented to him by the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences. Also included are 30 certificates and two oversized photographs: a signed photo of G.C. Marshall and one featuring a group of 22 men on...
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Project Celescope
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1958-1968
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10 cu. ft. (20 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 260
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit documents the operation of Project Celescope from its inception in 1958 until shortly before the launch of the experiment in December 1968. Records include correspondence; memoranda; TWX messages; contracts, invitations, bids and proposals; reports; and related materials concerning the technical development of Celescope; ...
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Taylor, Charles Edward, 1868-1956
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1928-1966
bulk 1928-1956
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0.23 Cubic feet ((1 slim legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0006
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This accession includes Taylor's correspondence with his son, Rueben W. Taylor, (1928-1948), and the Garrison Machine Works, (1953-1956), makers of gears used in the Wright flyer engines. The letters to Rueben Taylor are originals, while the Garrison Machine Works correspondence are mostly xerox copies. Also included are brief biographical sketches...
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Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002
Karlstrom, Paul J.
- Dates:
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1995 February 14
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1 Sound cassette (Sound recording, master (30 min.), analog)
8 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.wilder95
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview of Billy Wilder conducted 1995 February 14, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.
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SCA (Stabilimento di Costruzione Aeronautiche) N.1 "Norge" Airship Photographs
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1926
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2018.0047
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of nine black and white photographs of the SCA (Stabilimento di Costruzione Aeronautiche) N.1 "Norge" Airship.
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1925
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0.05 Cubic feet (One folder.)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2001.0010
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of eight copy prints of the Shenandoah Airship Crash in 1925.
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National Air and Space Museum. Space History Division
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1981-2002
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-214
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the records of Allan A. Needell, Curator, documenting planning, development, and production activities for the exhibitions Space Race, Looking at Earth, Lunar Exploration Vehicles, Explore the Universe, Exploring the Planets, Apollo to the Moon, Where Next, Columbus?, Space Hall, Satellites (and Sounding Rockets...
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National Air and Space Museum. Aeronautics Division
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1978-2010
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2.5 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 18-172
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting updates to the "Black Wings" exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum as well as educational outreach, publications, research, special events, and other activities pertaining to groundbreaking African American aviators. The "Black Wings" exhibition opened in 1982 in the Pioneers of Flight ...
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Browne, Margaret Fitzhugh, 1884-1972
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[ca. 1904-1960]
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0.2 Linear feet ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.browmarg
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Notes and writings, photographs, and printed material.