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1929-1931
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder, 1 photograph, 2 x 7 inches (folded to 2 x 3.5 inches))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0779
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This single-item collection consists of a business card created from a photograph and used by exhibition pilot Frederick Melvin "Freddie" Lund, circa 1930. The card is autographed by Lund, air race pilot Mary "May" Haizlip, and A. E. Merriam.
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Baldwin, Harry Milton
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1920s
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0.01 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2022.0025
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Naval Air Station (NAS) Lakehurst was acquired by the US Navy in 1921 for use as an airship station and it served as the control station for all US Navy lighter-than-air (LTA) flights until the program was terminated in 1961. Harry Milton Baldwin served in the US Navy and was stationed at NAS Lakehurst in the 1920s. This collection consists of twelve black and white photographs relating to airships at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lakehurst, New Jersey in the 1920s.
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Durant, Margery.
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bulk 1931-1932
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0.69 Cubic feet ((5 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2011.0023
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection includes 188 glass lantern slides that Durant shot during the tours; the slides were hand-colored by the photographer Edward Van Altena. There are thirteen reels of motion picture film, including "A Safari of Twenty Five Thousand Miles through Ten Countries in Silver Wings", a film on Durant's African flights. The collections include...
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bulk 1925
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box (23 glass lantern slides))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0491
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The collection consists of 23 hand-colored glass lantern slides of images taken during the 1925 Arctic expedition attempt by Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth to fly to the North Pole using a pair of Dornier Do J Wal (Whale) (Do 16) flying boats.
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bulk 1939
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1999.0069
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of eleven black and white 4x5 inch black and white copy negatives (with an 8x10 inch black and white copy print of each) of images gathered by Michael Neufeld for his article, "Rocket Aircraft and the Turbojet Revolution." This article was included in the book, "Innovation and the Development of Flight", edited by Roger Launius, 1999. The photographs include views of the Heinkel He 176, the Heinkel He 112, the Heinkel He 111, and the Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser (Falcon). The prints also show views of Ernst Heinkel, Erich Warsitz, and the upper German command, including Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler.
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Town, Thomas J.
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1930s
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2010.0024
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Thomas J. Town was a deep sea diver and was in the U. S. Navy submarine force in the 1920s-1930s. Subsequent to his naval service, Town enrolled as a student at the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute in the late 1930s. Town later worked as an engineer at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, California. This collection consists of 35 mm black and white negatives for 42 images taken in the late 1930s at Grand Central Airport in Glendale, California and at San Jacinto, California by Thomas J. Town.
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Mayer, Norman
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bulk 1940s-2000s
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16.6- Cubic feet ((17 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2016.0022
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately seventeen cubic feet of LTA material created or gathered by Norman Mayer during his career, 1941-2000s. The material spans from early Goodyear, Navy and Zeppelin design material, to later LTA designs from the 1970s-2000s, including those from Airship Industries Ltd, American Skyship Industries and CargoLift...
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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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Hedgpeth, James A.
- Dates:
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1944
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0.23 Cubic feet ((1 slim legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1989.0078
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes 75 photographs of Word War II bombings of France, specifically of Cologne. Aerial reconnaissance photographs make up the majority of the collection, although there are also photographs of a mapping room as well as a few pictures taken on the ground of the bombing damage. This collection also includes two prints of a Lockhee...
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Atherholt, Arthur T., 1867-1915
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1906-1913
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0.45 Cubic feet (1 legal document box)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1992.0043
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, a speech, flight logs, and maps documenting Atherholt's balloon racing career.