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Ellis Wright First Flight Anniversary Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS-595
Abstract

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, programs, first day issue Wright Brothers stamps, invitations, and photographs documenting Ellis Wright’s participation in the 45th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1949. Ellis Wright was a first cousin to Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Dates: 1909-1970

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

Aloys J. Wyen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-261
Abstract

Aloys J. Wyen was an early aviation pioneer associated with the Wright Brothers, first in their bicycle shop in Dayton, and later at Huffman Prairie as a mechanic. He was with them at Belmont Park in 1910, then flew in Los Angeles, California from 1911-1916. He later worked as a mechanic with the WACO Aircraft Company in Troy, Ohio, and Aeronca in Middletown. His papers include family photographs as well as correspondence and photographs documenting his long career in aviation.

Dates: 1910-1988

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

Zoe Dell Lantis Nutter Papers

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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

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Aeronautics -- History 40
Photographs 23
Aeronautics -- History -- 20th century 13
Correspondence 10
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Scrapbooks 7
Clippings (information artifacts) 6
Newspapers 6
Airplanes -- History 5
Dayton (Ohio) -- History 5
Publications (documents) 5
Aeronautics -- Competitions 4
Aeronautics in art 4
Airplanes in art 4
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 4
Inventors 4
Postcards 4
Advertisements 3
Aircraft industry -- United States -- History 3
Drawings (visual works) 3
Negatives (photographs) 3
Pamphlets 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations 3
Aeronautics -- Flights 2
Aeronautics -- History -- Manuscripts 2
Aerospace engineering 2
Air pilots -- Biography 2
Air warfare in art 2
Airplanes 2
Airplanes -- Photographs 2
Airplanes -- Pictorial works 2
Black-and-white photographs 2
Blueprints (reprographic copies) 2
Cleveland (Ohio) -- History 2
Dayton (Ohio) -- History -- 20th century 2
Engineer 2
Film (material by form) 2
Letters (correspondence) 2
Microfilms 2
New York (N.Y.) 2
Newspaper clippings 2
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Photograph albums 2
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Slides (photographs) 2
Technical drawings 2
Women air pilots 2
Wright Flyer (Airplane) 2
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio) 2
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Aeronautical engineers 1
Aeronautical engineers -- Great Britain 1
Aeronautics 1
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Aeronautics -- Pictorial works 1
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Airports -- New York -- Jackson Heights 1
Airports -- Photographs 1
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Akron (Ohio) -- History 1
Albany (N.Y.) -- History 1
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Art directors 1
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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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