Collection of material about American aviation, 1900-1945.

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Collection of material about American aviation, 1900-1945.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37862461

Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, and related ephemeral materials collected by aviation journalist and lecturer Elizabeth Gregory. The collection materials focus on pioneer men and women aviators, balloons, the Hindenburg, and the role of aviation in World War I and World War II. Pioneer aviators mentioned in the collection include Orville and Wilbur Wright, Harriet Quimby, Amelia Earhart, and Glenn Hammond Curtiss.

6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7397500

University of California, Los Angeles

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Gregory, Elizabeth Hiatt, 1872-1955

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Elizabeth Hiatt Gregory was born in 1872; journalist and lecturer in the field of aviation; claimed to be the only woman journalist present at the historic first successful flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, NC; correspondent for the Harpers bazaar, Town and country, and the New York times, New York tribune and New York sun; wrote a book, Show window of life (1955); died in Los Angeles, 1955. From the description of Collection of material about American aviation, 1900-1945....