Curtiss' Navy Hydroplane with top wing-mounted, disk-shaped stick stabilizer: Photograph 109, undated

This collection only contains photographs and photographic postcards related to Glenn Curtiss and other early aviation pioneers in the United States. The majority of the collection rests within Box 1. Box 2 houses the scrapbook and items that were too large to fit within Box 1. Each page of photographs in the scrapbook has been copied on acid-free paper and interleaved with the scrapbook page on which the photographs are mounted, for identification purposes should a photograph come loose from the scrapbook.

Files in Box 1 follow the arrangement scheme laid out in the Arrangement section of the finding aid. Photographs are grouped in files according to subject matter, person, event, or plane type, following the overall numbering scheme of the collection. There are a number of significant sets of photographs in the collection, such as File 3 (Glenn Curtiss Landing at Cedar Point, OH), File 4 (Cuyahoga County, OH, Centennial Air Show), File 7 (Curtiss 1913 Flying-boats), File 13 (Langley Aerodrome rebuild), File 14 (Curtiss America Flying-boat), File 19 (W.A. Dean), File 20 (Bert R.J. "Fish" Hassell), and File 22 (Philip O. Parmelee). The Langley Aerodrome rebuild is the best represented aviation subject in this collection, with 33 photographs and photographic postcards detailing all aspects of the rebuilt craft's 1914 flight.