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Wright Family to Petree Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS-585
Abstract The Wright Family to Petree Family Correspondence primarily contains letters written by Milton Wright to his niece Estella Harris Petree. The letters describe Wright family news and activities, but more importantly include specific references to Wilbur and Orville Wright’s bicycle business, flying experiments and success, Orville Wright’s accident at Ft. Myer in September 1908, the 1913 Dayton flood, and Milton’s flight with Orville in May 1910. There is also a very poignant letter written...
Dates: 1900-1939; Majority of material found within 1900-1917

William F. Yeager Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-223
Abstract William F. Yeager was a military and commercial pilot, as well as an aviation photographer and collector who owned an aviation photography business. The collection consists of information about Yeager's WWII experience as a B-25 pilot in North Africa and his post-war flying experience as an Air Force and commercial pilot. The collection also contains flight training books, flying tools, correspondence, and aircraft history and design information. The bulk of the collection is more than...
Dates: 1925 - 1990

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Aeronautics -- History 11
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Newspapers 3
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Aeronautics -- Flights 2
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Airplanes -- History 2
Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Dayton (Ohio) -- History -- 20th century 2
Film (material by form) 2
Letters (correspondence) 2
Microfilms 2
Negatives (photographs) 2
Photograph albums 2
Scrapbooks 2
Slides (photographs) 2
Aeronautical engineers 1
Aeronautical engineers -- Great Britain 1
Aeronautics 1
Aeronautics -- Biography 1
Aeronautics -- Competitions 1
Aeronautics -- History -- 20th century 1
Aeronautics -- United States -- History 1
Aeronautics in art 1
Aeronautics, Commercial -- History -- 20th century 1
Aeronautics, Commercial -- South America -- History 1
Aeronautics, Commercial -- United States -- History 1
Aerospace engineering 1
Air pilots -- Biography 1
Air shows -- History 1
Aircraft industry -- United States -- History 1
Airplane racing 1
Airplanes 1
Airplanes -- Jet propulsion 1
Airplanes -- Pictorial works 1
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Art directors 1
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Artists -- United States 1
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B-17 bomber 1
Biography files 1
Chile 1
Cleveland (Ohio) -- History 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Dayton (Ohio) -- History 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Elizabeth City (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Farming -- 1910-1920 1
Farming -- 1930-1950 1
Fighter pilots 1
Genealogies (histories) 1
Great Britain 1
Handbooks and manuals 1
Italy 1
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London (England) 1
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New York (N.Y.) 1
Newspaper clippings 1
Parachuting -- History 1
Periodicals 1
Peru 1
Photographers 1
Postcards 1
Programs (documents) 1
Questionnaires 1
Reports 1
Technical manuals 1
Technical reports 1
Telegrams 1
Trade catalogs 1
Training manuals 1
United States -- History, Military 1
Vulcan (Jet bomber) -- History 1
Washington (D. C.) 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, American 1
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Language
German 2
French 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 4
Wright family 3
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 3
Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929 2
Air University (U.S.) 1