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Seymour Dunham Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-294
Abstract

The Seymour Dunham Collection contains personal correspondence of Mr. Dunham, information on aviation organizations to which he belonged, aircraft and missile research, work-related research from his time at Wright-Patterson AFB, and an extensive collection of articles, newspaper clippings and photographs concerning the Wright Brothers and other aspects of aviation history.

Dates: 1889-1993

Charles Hubbell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-203
Abstract

The Charles Hubbell collection consists of prints of Charles Hubbell's original paintings of airplanes.

Dates: 1941-1961

Dennis W. Jarvi Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-513
Abstract The collection consists of flight manuals, owner’s manuals, handbooks, and pilot training materials for aircraft, many of which Jarvi piloted, including the jet fighter planes he flew during his distinguished career in the United States Air Force. Jarvi served with the 469 Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS) during the Vietnam War, completing 100 missions, and receiving the Third Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Flying Cross. Complementing the flight manuals and handbooks are lithographs,...
Dates: 1942-1997; Majority of material found within 1965-1979

Walter Matthews Jefferies Aviation Collection (MS-344)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-344
Abstract The Walter Matthews Jefferies Aviation Collection consists of more than 15,000 photographs and over 1100 books, pamphlets, and journals. The bulk of the photographs pertain to aviation from the 1930s to the 1960s. Most of the photographs document military aircraft produced by a variety of aircraft manufacturers. However, the collection also contains a significant number of photographs taken by movie studios during the filming of aviation-themed movies. A large amount of technical manuals...
Dates: 1917-2002

Frank A. Kiraly Aviation Postcard and Photo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-515
Abstract

The collection consists of aviation postcards, primarily of airports throughout the country, and also of photographs of famous aviators from the 1930s.

Dates: 1911-1977

Peter B. Kline Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-165
Abstract The Peter B. Kline Papers is a large collection of files and information on a wide variety of aviation subjects. Kline was an Aeronautical Engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and a collector of aviation materials. The collection contains clippings, journal articles, photographs, mechanical specifications, illustrations, and miscellaneous information about particular aircraft. The papers also includes technical manuals, correspondence with other aviation collectors and book dealers,...
Dates: 1822 - 1986

William Laufer Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-486
Abstract William Laufer was an aviation mechanic for the Southern Ohio Aviation Company and later, an instructor for the Miami Valley Career Technology Center teaching in their FAA Certified Aircraft Mechanic's program. The collection contains aircraft maintenance training material, general federal aviation maintenance guidance, and a variety of aircraft maintenance manuals including manuals for Beechcraft, Cessna, Douglas, and WACO airplanes. The collection also includes parts catalogs and sales...
Dates: 1919-1998; Majority of material found within 1940-1980

Leach "Heritage of the Air" Aviation Prints and Harold R. Harris Photograph (SC-314)

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Identifier: SC-314
Content Description The collection consists primarily of 28 aviation prints from Leach International’s advertising art series “Heritage of the Air,” commemorating WWI era planes, pilots, and events. The full series included 45 images, all painted by Merv Corning. One of the included prints, “The First Bail-Out,” depicts the first use of a parachute to save the pilot’s life, that of Harold R. Harris in 1922; the print is autographed by Harris. Also included is a 1981 snapshot of Harris standing near the Old...
Dates: 1959-1968, 1981

Zola Marie MacDonald Aviation Scrapbook

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Identifier: MS-291
Abstract

Scrapbook containing articles and information on aviation crashes, women in aviation (including the search for Amelia Earhart), and aviation fiction, dating between 1935 and early 1940s.

Dates: 1935-1945

Roger Miller Aviation Slide Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-500
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of color slides depicting aircraft, mostly civilian planes at air fields throughout the Miami Valley, with the bulk dating from 1959 to 1988. The slides were in most cases created, and in some cases collected, by Roger Miller, an aviation enthusiast and local historian from Middletown, Ohio.

Dates: 1926-1993; Majority of material found within Bulk 1959-1988

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio) 4
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Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 6
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 6
Wright Company 3
American Society of Aviation Artists 2
Cooper, Ann L. (Ann Lewis), 1934- 2
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Whittle, Frank, 1907-1996 2
Wright Flying School 2
Adams, Wade 1
Advance Aircraft Company 1
Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories (U.S.) 1
Aerospace Research Laboratories (U.S.) 1
Air University (U.S.) 1
American Helicopter Society 1
Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950 1
Bilek, Victor H., 1918- 1
Boeing Aerospace Company 1
Borden Company 1
Brandly, Raymond H. 1
Butler, William 1
Carreras Ltd. 1
Cavanagh, Robert L. 1
Cessna Aircraft Company 1
Chappell, Dorothy F. 1
Christman, Louis P., 1893-1972 1
Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Co. (Whitman, Mass.) 1
Corning, Merv, 1926-2006 1
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 1
Curtiss-Wright Corporaton 1
Dam, John J. 1
Dick, Pauline 1
Dick, Ron, 1931-2008 1
Douglas Aircraft Company 1
Dunham, Seymour, 1910-1996 1
Dunkelberg, Albert G., 1922-2003 1
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 1
Ferris, Keith 1
Foulois, Benjamin D., 1879-1967 1
Gallaher Limited 1
Graceland College (Lamoni, Iowa) 1
Grahame-White, Claude, 1879- 1
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 1
H. J. Heinz Company 1
Harris, Harold R., 1897-1989 1
Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929 1
Herring-Curtiss Company 1
Hoy, Walt 1
Hubbell, Charles H., 1898- 1
Jarvi, Dennis W. 1
Jefferies, Walter M. (Walter Matthews), 1921-2003 1
Jennings, W.N. 1
John Player & Sons 1
Kiraly, Frank A., 1914-2000 1
Kline, Peter B., 1918-1986 1
Lahm, Frank Purdy, 1877-1963 1
Lahusen’s 1
Laufer, William F., 1933-2002 1
Leach International 1
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
Lund, Freddie 1
Lunken Airport (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1
MacDonald, Zola Marie 1
Metamorphosis Studios, Inc. 1
Miller, Roger Lee, 1933- 1
Murphy, Mike 1
Murray Sons & Co. Ltd. 1
National Air and Space Museum 1
National Cash Register Company 1
Ohain, Hans von, 1911-1998 1
Paulhan, Louis 1
Pittman, Karen L., 1938-2022 1
Pittman, Wayne C., Jr., 1937-2015 1
Richmond, Laurence Palmer, 1900-1988 1
Rinehart, Howard 1
Ritchie Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) 1
Ritchie, Malcolm L., 1920- 1
Rodgers, Calbraith Perry 1
Roetman, Donald, 1928-2008 1
Royal Air Force College (Cranwell, England) 1
Sjogren, Jody Fulks 1
Skelly Oil Company 1
Thompson Products, inc. 1
Tide Water Associated Oil Company 1
Toulmin, Harry A. (Harry Aubrey), 1858-1942 1
Tuckett Limited 1
USAF School of Aerospace Medicine 1
United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd 1
United States. Army--Procurement 1
United States. Army. Air Corps. Materiel Division 1
United States. Department of the Air Force 1
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1
W.D. & H.O. Wills (Firm) 1
Waco Aircraft Company 1
Wagstaff, Patty 1
Wedekind, George, Jr., 1923-2003 1
Whyte, Edna Gardner 1
Wings Cigarettes 1
Woods, Jessie, 1909- 1
Wright Aeronautical Corporation 1
Wright Air Development Center 1
Wright family 1
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