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Aeronautical Products Corporation Records
Collection
Identifier: MS-179
Abstract
The Aeronautical Products Corporation was based in Los Angeles and manufactured beacon lights to guide aircraft. Records include correspondence, photographs, printed materials, advertisements, and clippings.
Dates:
1920-1946; Majority of material found within 1929-1941
Found in:
Special Collections
Levitt Luzern Custer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-302
Abstract
Levitt Luzern Custer was a Dayton-area aviator and inventor, and an associate of Orville Wright. During his lifetime he engaged in pioneering balloon experiments, served as an official timer for flight trials, collaborated with Orville Wright on various projects, and invented a wide range of mechanical machines from the statoscope to amusement park rides. The collection documents many of Custer's achievements as well as those of other early aviators, such as the Wright Brothers. Information...
Dates:
1886-2001; Majority of material found within 1908-1950
Found in:
Special Collections
Dayton Daily News Archive (MS-458)
Collection
Identifier: MS-458
Abstract
This collection consists of over 2000 cubic feet of photographs, negatives, and news clippings spanning obituary, personality, and subject files generated by the Dayton Daily News and the former Journal Herald in the twentieth century. The newspaper was founded by James M. Cox, a three-term Ohio governor and presidential candidate. The archive documents the local and regional history of Dayton and the Miami Valley in Ohio and it role on a national scale, particularly during the period 1930...
Dates:
1890 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1980
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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