Phillip H. Ault aviation collection, 1783-1993 (bulk 1900-1950).

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Phillip H. Ault aviation collection, 1783-1993 (bulk 1900-1950).

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Collection contains photographs of Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis in France after his 1927 trans-Atlantic flight, as well as materials, primarily reproductions of prints, drawings, and photographs documenting the history of aviation from 1783 to 1978 collected by Ault to illustrate his book, By the seat of their pants, published in 1978. The collection emphasizes the history of aviation in the U.S. from 1900 to 1950, including the Wright brothers, barnstorming, the first flight around the world in 1924, early mail carriers, Charles Lindbergh, the Dole Derby of 1927, Ameria Earhart, and Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan.

2 boxes (1.4 linear ft.)

The Claremont Colleges, Claremont University Consortium

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Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912

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Wilbur Wright, born April 16, 1867 in Indiana, and his brother, Orville, were inventors of the airplane. The brothers were in the printing and bicycle business in Dayton before they became interested in solving the problems of powered flight. After a series of kite and glider experiments at Kitty Hawk, N.C., the brothers built and successfully flew the first heavier-than-air powered machine on Dec. 17, 1903. The Wrights spent the next years improving their invention and in 1909, formed a company...

Wright, Orville, 1871-1948

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Orville Wright was a pioneer aviator. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, on Aug 19, 1871. He was a son of Bishop Milton and Susan Catherine (Koerner) Wright. In 1903, with his brother Wilbur Wright, he devoted much of his time to Wright Brothers' flying machine. He died on January 30, 1948, in Dayon, Ohio....

Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...

Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

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Amelia Mary Earhart (AE) was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, the first daughter of Amy (Otis) Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her sister, Grace Muriel, was born three years later. The family moved several times (to Kansas City, Kansas; Des Moines; St. Paul; Chicago) during AE's childhood as her father tried unsuccessfully to establish a profitable legal career. AE graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1916. ESE's increasing reliance on al...

Spirit of St. Louis (Airplane)

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Ault, Phillip H., 1914-

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Phillip Halliday Ault was born in Maywood, Ill., on Apr. 26, 1914 and graduated from DePauw University in 1935. From 1935-1937 he was a reporter for the LaGrange (Ill.) citizen. In 1938 he became a corresponding editor for UPI, serving in Chicago, New York City, Iceland, North Africa, and London, where he was bureau chief in 1944-1945. In 1948 he became assistant managing editor and director of the editorial page for the Times-Mirror Company in Los Angeles. From 1948-1957 he was editorial page e...

Corrigan, Douglas, 1907-1995

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Douglas Corrigan (1907-1995) was an American pilot during the twentieth century. Corrigan was born in Galveston, Texas and learned to fly in California. He was a member of the crew that built "The Spirit of St. Louis", the airplane in which Charles Lindbergh made his solo transatlantic flight in 1927. In 1938, Corrigan "accidentally" made a solo transatlantic flight from Brooklyn, New York to Dublin, Ireland, a flight which earned him the nickname "Wrong Way" Corrigan. Douglas Corrigan passed aw...