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John Toland Papers, 1944-1965

Title: John Toland Papers 1944-1965

Author and historian. Correspondence, notes, interviews, military reports, reminiscences, maps, photographs, and wide ranging production material, including drafts, galleys, and proofs, of Toland's books on World War II and gangsterism in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 8,150 items; 110 containers plus 1 oversize; 56 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013091 View

Appleton-Century mss., 1846-1962

Title: Appleton-Century mss., 1846-1962

Consists of the office files of the publishing company, its two predecessors, D. Appleton & Co., and the Century Co., and to a small extent its successor, Appleton-Century Crofts, Inc. The papers in the collection consist of contracts with authors for the publication of their works, and for dramatizations, motion picture rights, foreign editions, and translations of books published by the firm; business correspondence with authors, executors of their estates, publishers and others; royalty statements; copies of the wills of some of the authors; and other business papers.

ArchivalResource: 6,249 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA1233 View

Aviation Lithograph Collection, 1866-1910

Title: Aviation Lithograph Collection 1866-1910

A collection of eight early aviation lithographs and one photograph.

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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/ODaWU0088 View

O'Dwyer, William J. Gustave Whitehead research collection, 1869-1999.

Title: Gustave Whitehead research collection, 1869-1999.

Photographs (1898-1953) taken by A.K.L. Watson, including photograph albums and images of balloons and kites in flight, Southport and Bridgeport, Conn., landscapes, airplanes, and Whitehead's wooden planes built in the U.S. and Germany; research files, including newspaper and magazine articles regarding early airplane flight, eyewitness accounts, chronology of Whitehead's accomplishments, data concerning such early aviators as Lyman Gilmore and Alberto Santos-Dumont, and maps of the Fairfield/Bridgeport area; materials concerning the construction and flight of a replica of Whitehead's plane, model 21 including plans and specifications, log, and photos and articles on the project entitled Hangar 21. Also includes correspondence between O'Dwyer and aviation researchers throughout the world; materials of Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association and a committee dealing with a gravestone for Whitehead in Bridgeport; letters to and from German institutions and individuals and photos of Whitehead's birthplace in Germany and the Flugpionier-Gustav-Weisskopf-Museum in Leutershausen; German and Japanese magazines, videotapes, films, and other materials; documents reflecting government recognition of Whitehead, including proclamations by Gov. John Dempsey and correspondence with the U.S. State Dept.; and correspondence and other materials on other research projects including flying ace Eddie Richthofen (the Red Baron).

ArchivalResource: 18 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70923138 View

William Peters Aviation Photograph Collection, 1903-1964, 1908-1930

Title: William Peters Aviation Photograph Collection 1903-1964 1908-1930

The collection compiled by William H. Peters and given to Lieutenant Colonel John Glenn includes 53 photographs of famous aviators and aircrafts from the beginning of man-powered flight through the late 1930s. Included are images of the 1903 Wright Flyer, Glenn Curtiss, Benjamin Foulois, Fiorello Henry LaGuardia and many others. This collection also contains many signed photographs and documents including signatures from Wilbur Wright, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Dr. Hugo Eckner, Edwin Levick and M. Salmond.

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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/ODaWU0363 View

Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 1873-1932. Letter to a friend, 1826 Aug. 14, Val-Mont sur Territet.

Title: Letter to a friend, 1826 Aug. 14, Val-Mont sur Territet.

Santos-Dumont writes to a friend a short letter from Switzerland, where he has been for three months because he was not feeling well in Paris. He will return in September (1926, Aug. 14).

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84649222 View

Institute of Aerospace Sciences Archives, 1783-1962

Title: Institute of Aerospace Sciences Archives 1783-1962

Historical records of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences. Biographical and corporate files including correspondence, memoranda, writings, reports, biographical data and sketches, genealogical records, financial reports, broadsides, charts, press releases, newspaper clippings, blueprints, cartoons, maps, aeromedical and aeronautical reproductions, airplane specifications, prints, engravings, illustrations, sketches, photographs, memorabilia, printed matter, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material relating to aviation and aeronautics collected and maintained by the institute prior to its merger with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

ArchivalResource: 30,000 items; 182 containers plus 83 oversize; 80 linear feet; 4 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011135 View