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Records of the Civil Aeronautics Board. 1931 - 1984. Records Relating to the Wiley Post - Will Rogers Airplane Accident

Title: Records of the Civil Aeronautics Board. 1931 - 1984. Records Relating to the Wiley Post - Will Rogers Airplane Accident

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/566542 View

Presbyterian Hospital (Barrow, Alaska). Records of in-patients at Presbyterian Hospital, Barrow, 1921-1936.

Title: Records of in-patients at Presbyterian Hospital, Barrow, 1921-1936.

Case records include: name, date of admission, diagnosis, treatment, and result; includes autopsy records on death of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, August 15, 1935.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. and 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42068678 View

P.H. Fox family photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1890's-1930's.

Title: P.H. Fox family photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1890's-1930's.

Collection includes images from Juneau and Douglas ca. late 1800's through the 1930's, including people, government and social activities and scenics by various photographers, commercial and unidentified. A 1929 Camp Fire Girls' certificate, 1928 Douglas High School diploma and an image of Will Rogers and Wiley Post are included in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 44 photographs : b&w + memorabilia.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53875852 View

Kalmbacher, Paul C., 1897-1982. Papers, 1878-1970, (bulks 1898-1960).

Title: Papers, 1878-1970, (bulks 1898-1960).

Consists of scrapbooks containing photographs, programs, postcards, newsclippings, correspondence and other materials concerned with Kalmbacher's family and association with tent theaters which traveled throughout Texas during the 1920s and 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel (100 ft.) : negative

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26079454 View

Memories : [manuscript], Will Rogers, 1879-1935

Title: Memories : [manuscript], Will Rogers, 1879-1935

Newspaper and magazine clippings relating to Rogers' career and death, and to the numerous tributes and memorials to him after his death. All the clippings appear to have been collected at the time of his death in 1935 and in the years immediately following.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol. : ill. ; 60 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15341188 View

Henry Belin du Pont, Jr., papers, 1920-1970.

Title: Henry Belin du Pont, Jr., papers, 1920-1970.

The papers document Henry Belin du Pont's career with the Du Pont Company and General Motors Corporation, as well as his interests in aviation and the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation. Du Pont Company materials include records of stock transfers and bonuses. Also, included are reports from company economist, E. E. Lincoln.

ArchivalResource: 62 linear ft.

http://h92010.eos-intl.net/H92010/OPAC/Details/Record.aspx?BibCode=2671021 View

Elmo N. Pickerill Papers, 1910-1975

Title: Elmo N. Pickerill Papers 1910-1975

Aviator. Correspondence, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Pickerill's career as an aviator and to early aviation in the United States, particularly Long Island, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 4,500 items; 15 containers; 6.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011242 View

Alaska Transportation Museum. Alaska Transportation Museum photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1905-1970's.

Title: Alaska Transportation Museum photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1905-1970's.

Includes images of pilots, airplanes, airplane accidents, airports, airlines and railroads. The collection contains an image of Irene Ryan, first woman to solo in Alaska. Approximately 125 images are mounted on museum boards, as they were received, and are not numbered. Many images are not Alaskan. John W. Klingbeil photographed some of the images.

ArchivalResource: ca. 725 photographs : b&w.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54783540 View

King, George. George King papers, 1915-1969.

Title: George King papers, 1915-1969.

The George King collection consists of photographs, albums, scrapbooks, correspondence, and manuscripts pertaining to early aviation in Alaska. The photograph series (Series 1) consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The albums cover the years from circa 1915 through 1964. Topics depicted include aeronautics and mining. Of particular interest are the photos and news clippings on the search for pilot Carl Ben Eielson. There are also photographs of Eielson, Joe Crosson, and other pioneer bush pilots; expeditions such as the Wilkins Arctic Expedition; and European scenes, taken while King was working for the Junkers Corporation. There are also scenes from Russia, taken while King was coordinating an over-the-pole flight. While there, he helped coordinate the Russian search for Eielson. The manuscript materials (Series 2) are made up of two scrapbooks of clippings and photographs; correspondence with such notables as Sir Hubert Wilkins, Rex Beach, Sam White, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Carl Lomen, and Jimmie Doolittle; diaries and daily logs from 1926, 1929, and 1940; and drafts of autobiographical writings. There are also drafts for the publication "Observation of an American Aviator and the Organization of the Eielson Relief Expedition in Russia" and a handbook and other ephemera related to the Secret Order of Quiet Birdmen, a fraternal organization of pilots.

ArchivalResource: 2.25 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496049275 View

Skottowe, J. C. P. J.C.P. Skottowe photograph collection, 1935-1936. [graphic].

Title: J.C.P. Skottowe photograph collection, 1935-1936. [graphic].

ArchivalResource: 91 b&w photoprints, 250 nitrate negatives (ca.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50924222 View

Malone, Philip R. Autograph albums [manuscript], ca. 1925-1935.

Title: Autograph albums [manuscript], ca. 1925-1935.

Autograph albums contain signatures of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wiley Post, William J. Donovan, Eddie Rickenbacker, James Farley, Henry R. Luce, Arthur Guiterman, Daniel Roper, George H. Dern and others, particularly government officials in Florida and New York.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647823812 View

Wheeler, Carl L. Carl L. Wheeler papers, 1934-1936.

Title: Carl L. Wheeler papers, 1934-1936.

The Carl L. Wheeler Collection consist five black-and-white photographs and one letter. The photographs include images of a sod house built by a University of Alaska student from Siberia and located near the university campus. Other images include Carl "Lew" Wheeler and an Alaska Native, Will Rogers and Wiley Post in their aircraft, Sepp's dog team at Chatanika Mining camp, and "Lew" Wheeler in front of an ice house at the Ice Carnival in Fairbanks, Alaska. The letter is from Carl L. Wheeler to the dean of the University of Alaska, written on February 4, 2000, and includes Wheeler's recollections about the time he spent living close to the university.

ArchivalResource: .25 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/314197339 View

Floyd Bennett Field photograph collection, 1929-1955.

Title: Floyd Bennett Field photograph collection, 1929-1955.

Photos of military airfield in Brooklyn, including WPA murals; buildings; aerial views; celebrities such as General Douglas MacArthur, 1955, Douglas Corrigan, 1938, Howard Hughes, 1938-1939, Will Rogers and Wiley Post, 1932-1935.

ArchivalResource: 65 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155450477 View

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Work in Alaska. Records, 1874-1972 [microform]

Title: Records, 1874-1972 [microform]

Consists of field correspondence, reports, and property records of home missionaries in Alaska; records of PCUSA BNM, Div. of Educational and Medical Work in Haines, Alaska; and records pertaining to the Woman's Board of Home Missions.

ArchivalResource: 9.25 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82903247 View

Wiley Post-Flat, Alaska Collection, 1933.

Title: Wiley Post-Flat, Alaska Collection, 1933.

The Wiley Post-Flat, Alaska Collection consists of six photographs. Five of the photographs are of the "Winnie Mae," the aircraft Wiley Post flew solo around the world, taken when Post landed it on its nose in Flat, Alaska. The remaining photograph is of a Ptarmigan Airlines airplane. The collection also includes notes on an envelope regarding Post's landing in Flat.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309429331 View

Crosson, Joe, 1903-1949. Crosson Family Papers, 1920-1980.

Title: Crosson Family Papers, 1920-1980.

This collection primarily covers the activities of Joe Crosson's flying career in Alaska and the Arctic from 1926 until his death in 1949. Photographs, correspondence, and newspaper and magazine articles chronicle the transition in Alaska from ground to air transportation as well as historic flights in Alaska and Antarctica. There are also photographs and newsclippings of his sister Marvel's flying career as well as photographs and papers of his wife Lillian from her time as a student at the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines.

ArchivalResource: 7 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/216889074 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

Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937. The George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers, 1785-1948 (inclusive), 1928-1937 (bulk).

Title: The George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers, 1785-1948 (inclusive), 1928-1937 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, photographs, creative writings (poems, short story drafts, articles, books), notes, flight preparations, flight logs, pilot licenses, printed material, last will and testament, premarital agreement, marriage certificate, passport, diploma, scrapbooks, genealogical information, flight maps, personal belongings (flight jacket, goggles, helmet, medals) and ephemera relating to the personal life, aviation career, and business activities of Amelia Earhart.

ArchivalResource: 16.5 cubic feet.

http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/fa/pdf/earhart.pdf View

Brousseau, Ernest A., 1924-1992. Ernest Brousseau aviation collection, 19--.

Title: Ernest Brousseau aviation collection, 19--.

Photographs celebrating Old Orchard Beach's 1977 "Fly Day USA" reflecting the surprise landing on the beach by Charles Lindbergh in 1929; together with two scrapbooks, created by Brousseau, pertaining to Lindbergh's landing and clippings relating to the 1935 crash which took the lives of aviators, Will Rogers and Wiley Post.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173176660 View

Post, Wiley, 1898-1935. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1933.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1933.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155893314 View

New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers, 1823-1999

Title: New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers 1823-1999

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was the publisher of xxThe New York Timesxx from 1935 until 1961 and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company from 1961 until 1968. While he was publisher, circulation of The Times almost doubled; the editorial page developed a reputation for strong opinions; news events were subjected to more analysis and coverage of specialized topics was strengthened; new sections and departments were created for food, fashion, and women; and the overall style of the paper became less rigid and more aesthetically pleasing. The papers document Sulzberger's life and career at xxThe New York Timesxx, with the majority of the collection relating to Sulzberger's 26 years as president and publisher of the paper. Included in the collection are correspondence with family members, friends, colleagues, world leaders, and other dignitaries; memoranda regarding the business of the newspaper, including Sulzberger's notes of praise and criticism to his editors, managers, and writers; reports on his meetings with world leaders, including Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman; and photographs of Sulzberger, his family, business trips, vacations, and The Times' buildings.

ArchivalResource: 129.9 linear feet; 297 boxes, 10 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/17782 View