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Ann Cooper Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-295
Abstract
Ann Cooper is a prolific author with over 600 published magazine articles and ten books on aviation notables to her credit. The research collection is an excellent source of information on women aviators such as Jessie Woods, Patty Wagstaff, Edna Gardner Whyte, Dorothy S. Lewis, and Nancy Hopkins Tier, as well as African American aviators including the Tuskegee Airmen.
Dates:
1900-2002
Found in:
Special Collections
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
Zola Marie MacDonald Aviation Scrapbook
Collection
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
Found in:
Special Collections
Zoe Dell Lantis Nutter Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-446
Abstract
The collection consists of the personal papers and photographs of Zoe Dell Lantis Nutter, a resident of Xenia, Ohio. Zoe Dell is recognized for her influence in aviation and in her local community as a pilot and the first woman president of the National Aviation Hall of Fame, as well as for her contributions to several civic organizations. In 1939 she was named "Most Photographed and Publicized Girl in the World," which was mostly attributed to her role as Theme Girl in the 1938 San...
Dates:
1934-2010
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Babcock, George 1
- Cooper, Ann L. (Ann Lewis), 1934- 1
- Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 1
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- Gates, Hazel G. Wilson 1
- Gates, Ivan Rhuele, 1890-1932 1
- Holmes Airport (Jackson Heights, New York) 1
- MacDonald, Zola Marie 1
- National Aviation Hall of Fame (U.S.) 1
- New Standard Aircraft Company 1
- Nutter, Zoe Dell Lantis, 1915-2020 1
- Pangborn, Clyde Edward, approximately 1893-1958 1
- Republican Party (Ohio) 1
- United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd 1
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