Aero Club of Illinois records, 1909-1948.

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Aero Club of Illinois records, 1909-1948.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715309566

Letters, financial records, membership data, etc. concerning Aero Club activities and aviation in Illinois, America, and abroad. Much of the collection concerns preparations for and staging of aviation meets in Grant Park, Chicago (Ill.) in Aug. 1911 and at Clearing (Ill.) Sept. 1912. Also includes envelopes, in box 18 and Bulletins of the Aero Club of America, 1915-1917, in folders 76, 80, 84.

7.5 linear ft. (18 boxes)

Chicago History Museum

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