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Air Force Association, Wright Memorial Chapter Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-351
Abstract
This collection documents a civilian aerospace organization that promotes public understanding of aerospace power and national defense. The collection includes newspaper clippings, magazines, awards, correspondence, meeting minutes, national, regional, and state conference materials, community events, photographs, certificates, reports, financial records, and general Air Force information. Most items deal with events and overall activities of the Wright Memorial Chapter. Several items in the...
Dates:
1953-2014
Found in:
Special Collections
Brad Tillson Inventing Flight Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-483
Abstract
This collection contains the personal papers of J. Bradford Tillson, the chairman of the Inventing Flight Celebration held in Dayton, Ohio. It documents his correspondence and work on the Inventing Flight Celebration Commission and his involvement with the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission; the committee for the national celebration of flight. This collection contains personal correspondence, financial documentation, planning information and other materials related to the Centennial of...
Dates:
1912-2006; Majority of material found within 1989-2004
Found in:
Special Collections
Robert L. Cavanagh Aviation Collection (MS-353)
Collection
Identifier: MS-353
Abstract
The Robert L. Cavanagh Aviation Collection contains extensive research on a variety of aircraft, including detailed information on the Boeing P-12. The collection also contains a wide variety of aircraft photographs, along with negatives, slides, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photograph albums.
Dates:
1917-1999
Found in:
Special Collections
Cold War Aerospace Technology Oral History Project Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-431
Abstract
The Cold War Aerospace Technology Oral History Project primarily contains oral histories gathered from several workers in the field of Aerospace Technology during the Cold War (1946-1992). With few exceptions, the interviewees were all engineers and worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on projects ranging from stealth and fly-by-wire technology to jet propulsion and foreign intelligence gathering, etc.
Dates:
1936-2008
Found in:
Special Collections
Air Vice-Marshall Ron Dick Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-494
Abstract
The Air Vice-Marshal Ron Dick Collection follows the life and career of Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Dick. He served in the Royal Air Force, which included two appointments to the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., first as Air Attaché and then as Defense Attaché. During and after his military career, he was a prolific writer and lecturer on the history of aviation and took any opportunity he could to fly. The materials in this collection include material concerning his military career,...
Dates:
1938-2008
Found in:
Special Collections
Fred F. Marshall Papers (MS-53)
Collection
Identifier: MS-53
Abstract
The Fred F. Marshall Papers reflect Marshall's career as an engineer, aviation journalist, photographer, environmentalist, and local historian. Marshall was attached to the Signal Corps in World War I; he then returned to Dayton to work at McCook Field where he was editor of the aviation journal, Slipstream. Retiring in 1955 after working for several engineering and aircraft firms, Marshall devoted his time to writing articles dealing with the history of the Yellow Springs, Clifton, and...
Dates:
1912-1976
Found in:
Special Collections
Frank Hamburger Papers (SC-36)
Collection
Identifier: SC-36
Abstract
Frank Hamburger witnessed the Wright Brothers' first flight in Dayton. Collection contains several photographs of Hamburger as well as newspaper clippings recounting his involvement with the Wrights.
Dates:
1909 - 1936
Found in:
Special Collections
Harold R. Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-214
Abstract
Harris was a World War I flyer and test pilot at McCook Field in Dayton during the early 1920s. He later became an executive with Pan American Airlines, American Overseas Airlines, and Northwest Airlines, as well as holding the rank of Colonel in the Army Air Transport Command during World War II. His papers consist of extensive correspondence, both personal and business, travel diaries, reports, newspaper clippings, personal logs detailing his activities and movements, speeches,...
Dates:
1886, 1908-1990
Found in:
Special Collections
C.T. Hutchins Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-159
Abstract
C.T. Hutchins was an advertising executive with the Goodyear Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, who had an interest in lighter than-air-aviation. His papers include personal and family letters, photographs, cards, news clippings, and memorabilia pertaining to early aviation. Of particular interest is material on the Goodyear-Zeppelin christening in Akron in 1931, and a folder pertaining to Amelia Earhart's visit to Akron in 1929.
Dates:
1917-1939
Found in:
Special Collections
International Cyclopedia of Aviation Biography Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-167
Abstract
The International Cyclopedia of Aviation Biography (I.C.A.B.) Collection consists of material collected by William L. Hamberger in the late 1920s and early 1930s in preparation to publish his International Cyclopedia of Aviation Biography. The Cyclopedia was never published. Materials in this collection include files on over 3,000 prominent individuals in the field of aviation in the early twentieth century. These files contain a variety of materials including newspaper clippings,...
Dates:
1910-1939
Found in:
Special Collections
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