Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics Records 1925-1943 (bulk 1926-1930)

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Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics Records 1925-1943 (bulk 1926-1930)

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Fund to facilitate technical development, improve safety, and expand the popularity of aviation; active from 1926-1930. Correspondence, reports, articles, pamphlets, legal and financial records, printed matter, and other records relating chiefly to commercial aviation in the United States and to a history of the fund written by R. H. Mayo. Subjects include aeronautical education and research, aviation safety, technical development, the use of aviation for passenger travel and the transport of freight, and Charles A. Lindbergh's tour of the United States in 1927.

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Fund established to facilitate technical development, improve safety, and expand the popularity of aviation; active from 1926 to 1930. From the description of Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics records, 1926-1943 (bulk 1926-1930). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063098 ...

Land, Emory Scott, 1879-1971

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Mayo, R. H. (Robert Hobart), 1890-

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Guggenheim, Harry Frank, 1890-1971

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Harry Frank Guggenheim (b. August 23, 1890, West End, NJ–d. January 22, 1971, New York, NY) was the grandson of mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim and the son of Daniel Guggenheim, mining magnate and philanthropist. He recieved his BA and MA in 1913 from Pembroke College at Cambridge University. During World War I he was a member of US Navy Reservesand the First Yale Unit in WWI. He became the director and president of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation. In this role he provided ...

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