Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The scrapbook contains primarily newspaper clippings concerning the various long-distance flights of the 1920s. The main focus of the scrapbook is the first aerial circumnavigation of the world in 1924 by four aviators in the U.S. Army Air Service: Lowell H. Smith, Erik H. Nelson, John Harding, Jr., and Henry H. Ogden. The scrapbook does not contain any original photographs and very few types of documents besides newspaper clippings. Clippings are mostly from the Philadelphia Record, Chicago...