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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
Found in:
Special Collections
Wright Brothers Collection (MS-1)
Collection
Identifier: MS-1
Abstract
A supplement to the main body of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s papers located in the Library of Congress, this collection consists of family papers, financial records, school mementos, Wright family genealogical materials, the church papers and diaries of the Wrights’ father, Bishop Milton Wright, notebooks, albums, awards and citations, photocopies of correspondence between Wilbur Wright and Octave Chanute, and the Wrights’ technical library that includes journals, books, and pamphlets...
Dates:
1779-1985; Majority of material found within 1853-1948
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Aeronautics -- History -- Manuscripts 1
- Aeronautics -- History 1
- Aeronautics in art 1
- Air pilots 1
- Aircraft industry -- United States -- History 1
- Airplanes -- Pictorial works 1
- Art directors 1
- Artists 1
- Artists -- United States 1
- Aviation artists 1
- College Park (Md.) -- History 1
- Correspondence 1
- Dayton (Ohio) -- Newspapers 1
- Dayton (Ohio) -- Social life and customs 1
- Flight -- History -- 20th century 1
- Handbooks and manuals 1
- Inventors 1
- Kitty Hawk (N.C.) -- History 1
- Microfilms 1
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- History 1
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- Printing -- Ohio -- Dayton 1
- Slides (photographs) 1
- Technical manuals 1
- Wright Flyer (Airplane) 1 + ∧ less
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- American Society of Aviation Artists 1
- Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929 1
- Jefferies, Walter M. (Walter Matthews), 1921-2003 1
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