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Ivan R. Gates Collection (MS-646)
Collection
Identifier: MS-646
Abstract
Ivan R. Gates was an Early Bird of Aviation, receiving his pilot’s license in 1911, and is credited with starting the first flying school on the west coast in California. The collection documents Gates’ aviation business enterprises, including the Gates Flying Circus, Gates Flying Service, and the New York-based Gates Aircraft Corporation, which manufactured the Gates Belgian RSV convertible monoplane/biplane. Gates’ wife Hazel was also a pilot. The majority of the collection is contained...
Dates:
1924-1930
Found in:
Special Collections
Joyce Whitmore Aviation Scrapbook (MS-456)
Collection
Identifier: MS-456
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and photographs chronicling Joyce Whitmore’s life as a student pilot in the Civilian Pilot Training Program at the College of Idaho in Caldwell. Contents include newspaper articles she wrote about her experience, photographs of her classmates and instructors, and photographs of aircraft and airports she encountered throughout the western United States. Whitmore was also a distant cousin of the Wright Brothers.
Dates:
1939-1941
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Aeronautics -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century 1
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- Air pilots -- Idaho 1
- Air shows 1
- Aircraft industry -- New York -- History 1
- Airports -- Idaho 1
- Airports -- New York -- Jackson Heights 1
- Boise (Idaho) 1
- Caldwell (Idaho) 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Gates R.S.V. biplane 1
- Gates R.S.V. monoplane 1
- Photographs 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Stunt flying 1
- Women air pilots 1
- Women air pilots -- Idaho 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- Babcock, George 1
- Civilian Pilot Training Program (U.S.) 1
- Gates Flying Circus 1
- Gates Flying Service 1
- Gates, Hazel G. Wilson 1
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