AV. Aviation

Digital prints of broken magic lantern slides that can be found in MS-204, depicting World War I aviation technology. Some items from the collection may be viewed online as part of our digital exhibits.

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).

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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