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Charlie Taylor-Howard DuFour Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-286
Abstract Howard DuFour extensively researched Charlie Taylor, who designed and built the engine that powered the Wright Brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 1903. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, articles, aviation history books, an oral history, personal correspondence, photographs, and Howard DuFour's drafts of the book "Charlie Taylor: The Wright Brothers Mechanician." The collection also contains materials on DuFour's building of the Wright 1903 Flyer Replica...
Dates: 1938-2004

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

Early Aviation Scrapbook

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Identifier: MS-454
Abstract

Photographs in the scrapbook highlight a number of aviation events between 1925 and 1931, including the crash of the airship Shenandoah and the National Air Races in Cleveland of 1929 and, especially, 1931. The photographs were taken by George Chapley, of Warren, Ohio. The collection also includes 2 photographs of Chapley himself.

Dates: circa 1925-1931, 1984; 1984

Randle H. Egbert Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-389
Abstract

The Randle H. Egbert Aviation Papers consist of journals, news and periodical clippings, and memorabilia related to the Wright Brothers and early aviation.

Dates: 1904-2004

Fulton Flight Scrapbook

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Identifier: MS-158
Abstract

This collection consists of an individual's scrapbook containing clippings and other memorabilia pertaining to the Fulton Flight Contest sponsored by the Aero Club of America in New York in 1909. Included are announcements of the contest, promotional material and entry form, news clippings describing the contest, commemorative postcards and information on preparation by the aviators. The scrapbook is unbound and the pages housed in three boxes.

Dates: 1908-1910

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

Reinhold Gross Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-433
Abstract

Reinhold Gross was a mechanical engineer who specialized in parachutes and related equipment. Researchers studying his collection of papers can gain insight into aviation engineering during the middle of the 20th century, particularly in Dayton (Ohio). His papers include patents, blueprints, certificates, photographs, correspondence, technical reports, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1952-1972

Frank Hamburger Papers (SC-36)

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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

Harold R. Harris Papers

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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

Harvard-Boston Aero Meet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-338
Abstract

The papers consist of glass plate negatives, lantern slides, and photographs of pictures taken by Anthony Philpott editor of the Boston Globe. Of particular interest in these files are copies of newspaper clippings from 1910 and 1911 about the meets, as well as pictures of Wilbur Wright, Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, President William H. Taft, Claude Grahame-White, Glenn Curtiss, and other distinguished people from that time period.

Dates: 1910-1997; Majority of material found within 1910-1911

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Aeronautics -- History 40
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Airplanes -- History 5
Dayton (Ohio) -- History 5
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Aeronautics -- Competitions 4
Aeronautics in art 4
Airplanes in art 4
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Names
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 17
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 16
Wright family 5
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 3
Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929 3
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Aero Club of America 2
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 2
Harris, Harold R., 1897-1989 2
Taylor, Charles E. (Edward), 1868-1956 2
Wright, Lorin, 1862-1939 2
Wright, Milton, 1828-1917 2
Wright, Reuchlin, 1861-1920 2
Adams, Wade 1
Air University (U.S.) 1
American Aviation Historical Society 1
American Export Airlines 1
American Society of Aviation Artists 1
Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950 1
Babcock, George 1
Baker, Max 1
Ball, Robert S., 1911-1961 1
Beacon Soap Company, Inc. (New York) 1
Benoist Aeroplane Co. 1
Benoist School of Aviation 1
Bilek, Victor H., 1918- 1
Blanchard, Werner J., 1900-1948 1
Borden Company 1
Carreras Ltd. 1
Chapley, George M. 1
Charles F. Kettering Foundation 1
Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Co. (Whitman, Mass.) 1
Corning, Merv, 1926-2006 1
Critchlow, Walter Grover 1
Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company 1
Deeds, E.A. (Edward Andrew), 1874-1960 1
Dick, Pauline 1
Dick, Ron, 1931-2008 1
Dufour, Howard R., 1915-2009 1
Dunham, Seymour, 1910-1996 1
Dunkelberg, Albert G., 1922-2003 1
Egbert, Randle H. 1
Fairchild Aircraft Company (Hagerstown, Md.) 1
Findley, Earl N. (Earl Nelson), 1878-1956 1
Ford’s Theatre (Washington, D.C. : 1861-1865) 1
Foulois, Benjamin D., 1879-1967 1
Frigidaire Corporation 1
Gallaher Limited 1
Gates Flying Circus 1
Gates Flying Service 1
Gates, Hazel G. Wilson 1
Gates, Ivan Rhuele, 1890-1932 1
General Motors Corporation 1
General Motors Corporation. Aeroproducts Division 1
Grahame-White, Claude, 1879- 1
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 1
Gross, Reinhold 1
H. J. Heinz Company 1
Haeseker, Charles Lafayette, 1916-1998 1
Hamberger, William L., 1891-1973 1
Hamburger, Frank, 1864-1937 1
Harris family 1
Harris, Sarah Wright, 1824-1868 1
Hermes, F. 1
Herring-Curtiss Company 1
Holmes Airport (Jackson Heights, New York) 1
Hoy, Walt 1
Hubbell, Charles H., 1898- 1
Huffman Prairie Aviation History Society 1
International Aero Vehicle Company (Dayton, Ohio) 1
Isphording, Richard Charles 1
J.E.P. Sullivan Co. (Dayton, Ohio) 1
Jackson, Sarah 1
Jefferies, Walter M. (Walter Matthews), 1921-2003 1
Jennings, W.N. 1
John Player & Sons 1
Jones, Charles Oliver, 1865-1908 1
Kettering family 1
Kettering, Charles Franklin, 1876-1958 1
Kettering, Eugene W. (Eugene Williams), 1908-1969 1
Kettering, Virginia W., 1907-1969 1
Kinnane, Adrian 1
Kiraly, Frank A., 1914-2000 1
Kline, Peter B., 1918-1986 1
Korn, Edward Albert, 1888-1980 1
Korn, Milton H., 1890-1913 1
Krieger, Adolph, 1921-2002 1
Lahm, Frank Purdy, 1877-1963 1
Lahusen’s 1
Leach International 1
Lincoln Airplane and Flying School (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
MacDonald, Zola Marie 1
MacGregor, John 1
MacNeil, Charles 1
Mayfield, William Preston, 1896-1974 1
Miami Valley Aero Historians Association 1
Miller, Harold, 1896-1991 1
Miller, Ivonette Wright, 1896-1995 1
Miller, Roger Lee, 1933- 1
Mosher, Dean (Artist) 1
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