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AV. Aviation

 Topic Guide
Identifier: AV
This classification groups collections on the topic of aviation.

Found in 347 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Snyder Aeroplane Photographs (SC-130)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-130
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two photos of an airplane designed and built by Charles Snyder of Osborn (now part of Fairborn), Ohio, plus an article about Fairfield and Osborn (combined to form Fairborn).

Dates: undated

Hamilton-Fairfield WACO Fly-in Program (SC-131)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-131
Scope and Contents

Program for the Hamilton-Fairfield WACO fly-in, circa 1985

Dates: circa 1985

"The Kite Craze" Pamphlet (SC-134)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-134
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of: Scientific Kites and how to Fly them - a 15-page illustrated pamphlet used as a sales catalogue for E.I. Horsman

Dates: circa 1899

Secretary of War Newton Baker Letter (SC-135)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-135
Scope and Contents

Mimeographed letter from the Secretary of War Newton Baker to Mr. Talbott the President of the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company. Includes original signature of Newton Baker. Dated July 26, 1918.

Dates: 1918

Wright Brothers Aviation Postcards (SC-136)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-136
Scope and Contents

This small collection consists of 46 mixed American and European postcards that depict the Wrights, their planes, and monuments dedicated to them.

Dates: 1909-1970

The Wright Brothers and Their Work Booklet (SC-137)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-137
Scope and Contents

Report written by George Bia, the Wrights' representative in Belgium, which includes illustrations and technical drawings. Also includes photograph of Wilbur at controls of a flyer.

Dates: 1910

Wright Family Funerals, a Narrative (SC-139)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-139
Scope and Contents

Narrative and commentary on the Wright Family funerals, written and donated by Chip Boyer, whose family owned Boyer Mortuary and handled the funerals of Wilbur, Milton, Katharine, and Orville Wright. Included in the Plates section of the booklet are mortuary and death records and photographs of gravestones and funerals of the Wright Family.

Dates: 2002

Wright and Patterson Fields Postcard Collection (SC-140)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-140
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of consists of nine halftone postcards in black and white, depicting Patterson and Wright Fields. The postcards appear to have been published as part of a series by the Wayne Paper Box and Printing Co., Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Dates: undated

William Badger Baldwin Biplane Postcard (SC-141)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-141
Scope and Contents

Black and white postcard of William R. Badger at the controls of a Baldwin biplane at an aviation meet in Chicago.

Dates: circa 1911

Reinhold Koch's War Memories Scrapbook (SC-142)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-142
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of 1 Scrapbook, containing 42 black and white photos from Abteilung (Detachment) 212 in the German Air Force during World War I. Most of the photographs depicts daily life on base. There are some photos of German and Allied aircraft. There are pictures of Fokker Eindeckers, Rumpler C IV, German observation balloons, and a captured Handley Page 0/400. Title of scrapbook is in German, and there are not captions.

Dates: 1917