Aircraft landing in St. Charles, Mo., Undated

The collection is comprised of 53 photographs and additional printed material. The collection contains many period copies of wire services and magazine photographs and other printed materials. It is arranged into two series.

Series I, Printed Materials, is organized in chronological order. These printed materials give additional information as to the formation of the collection and to some individual photographs. Included is a signed Aerial Age Weekly magazine article signed by Alberto Santos-Dumont.

Series II, Photographs, contains fifty-three photographs spanning 1903 to 1941. The majority of photographs are dated and have some identifying material attached. The photographs cover a wide array of aviation topics, including aircraft, dirigibles, and kites. Many early aviators are also included in this collection: Patrick N. L. Bellinger, Oskar Bider, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Rene Fonck, Benjamin Delahauf Foulois, Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, Alfred Leblanc, Charles A. Lindbergh, Hiram S. Maxim, Louis Paulhan, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Adolf Warchalowski, and Wilbur Wright. Some of these photographs contain signatures of those depicted. In the first sleeve of Box 2 is a brief note of information on each photo.