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Washington Irving Chambers Papers, 1871-1943, (bulk 1911-1919)

Title: Washington Irving Chambers Papers 1871-1943 (bulk 1911-1919)

Naval officer. Correspondence, subject files, logbooks, memoranda, blueprints, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Chambers's service in the navy and with the Greely Relief Expedition to the Arctic and the Nicaragua Canal survey expedition of 1884-1885.

ArchivalResource: 12,000 items; 48 containers; 12 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011189 View

1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet at Dominguez Flying Field Committee. 1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet Research Collection, 1909-1999.

Title: 1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet Research Collection, 1909-1999.

This collection includes newsclippings, photos, books, journal articles, ephemera, correspondence, and minutes related to the aviation meet held on Dominguez Hill in 1910. Subjects include early aviation history and early aviators, the Aviation Meet of Los Angeles (1910-1911), anniversaries, a commemorative airshow, and the Aviation Meet Committee.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes.7 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68046219 View

Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright Papers, 1809-1979, (bulk 1900-1948)

Title: Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright Papers 1809-1979 (bulk 1900-1948)

Aviation pioneers and inventors. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, business accounts, legal papers, minutes, reports, printed matter, photographs, blueprints, and scrapbooks relating primarily to the invention of the airplane and the development of aviation.

ArchivalResource: 32,250 items; 120 containers plus 13 oversize; 61 linear feet; 15 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998012 View

Strain, Numa Alonzo. Materials on early San Marino, Calif., 1960-1969.

Title: Materials on early San Marino, Calif., 1960-1969.

Collection of letters and memoirs by Numa Alonzo Strain relating to the history of San Marino, San Gabriel, and Alhambra from the late 1890s until the 1920s. Includes two manuscripts, "City of the Underprivileged: the history of California's San Marino and the founder Henry Edwards Hungtington," which briefly covers the origins of San Marino and the role of Henry E. Huntington, the Pacific Electric Railway, and the Huntington Library; and "The Formative Years," which includes Strain's memoirs of his life in San Marino during the first half of the 20th century, and which focuses on entertainment (especially aeronautics) and Strain's encounters with Huntington, Buffalo Bill Cody, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Roy Knabenshue, Theodore Roosevelt, George S. Patton, and the Shorb family. Also included is a series of letters from Strain with further reminiscences on San Marino.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/662487331 View

1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet Research Collection, 1909-1999

Title: 1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet Research Collection 1909-1999

This collection includes newsclippings, photos, books, journal articles, ephemera, correspondence, and minutes related to the aviation meet held on Dominguez Hill in 1910. Subjects include early aviation history and early aviators, the Aviation Meet of Los Angeles (1910-1911), anniversaries, a commemorative airshow, and the Aviation Meet Committee.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes; 4 linear feet

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4m3nc8jw 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

Parker, Harold A., 1878-1930,. Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives [graphic], 1889-1949, (bulk 1913-1949).

Title: Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives [graphic], 1889-1949, (bulk 1913-1949).

The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 5157 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and panoramic negatives, 1889-1949, that depict commercial, residential and landscape sites in and around Pasadena and Southern California. The images provide a comprehensive look at the commercial, residential and social development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the early years of the twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in images of residential architecture in Pasadena, Altadena, and San Marino; images of Lake Tahoe; depictions of, and activities at, the Raymond, Maryland, and Huntington Hotels in Pasadena; and the commercial, social and cultural landscapes of Pasadena. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes, 4 binders (22.75 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122643958 View