Walter Douglas papers, ca. 1895-1987 (bulk 1938-1959).

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Walter Douglas papers, ca. 1895-1987 (bulk 1938-1959).

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Summary: Personal correspondence, business records, and photographs relating to the Douglas family and the aviation businesses of Walter Douglas, Jr., mostly dating from 1938 to 1959. There are business ledgers, accounts, and correspondence of Walter Douglas, Sr. regarding business activities in Mexico from 1896 to 1948. There is also a small amount of material about Walter Douglas, Jr.'s other activities : the Gilpin Sports Stadium and Cox Mobile Home Estates park, both in Tucson. Most of the collection contains correspondence, instruction materials, student records, financial accounts, daily operations records, applications for routes, and other documents relating to the Gilpin Airport, the Civilian Pilot Training Program, the Veteran Affairs Aviation Training Program, Grand Canyon Airlines, and Gilpin and Grand Canyon Airlines between 1936 and 1959. Correspondence with the Dept. of Commerce, Civil Aeronautics Administration, Office of Civil Defense (f. 306) includes Civil Air patrol flight logs. Correspondence with aviation historians includes information about airline histories. Correspondents include Rep. John R. Murdock, Sen. Henry Ashurst and Sen. Carl Hayden. Correspondence with Ashurst includes letters with the National Youth Administration about their training programs. There are also photographs of the Walter Douglas family, one class of the Civilian Pilot Training Program, and fishing trips to Guaymas, Mexico. Photographs of Gilpin Airport, Grand Canyon Airlines, an airplane crash (not in the canyon), and aerial views of the Grand Canyon (ca. 1940s), Nogales, Sasabe, and Lukeville (ca. 1985). One photograph of the Gilpin Airport interior shows a U.S. war propaganda poster on the wall stating "The Enemy is Listening."

18 linear ft. (41 boxes)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 8238702

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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Murdock, John Robert, 1885-1972

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Arizona educator and Representative to the U.S. Congress from Arizona, 1935-1953. From the description of John Robert Murdock collection, 1917-1963 (bulk 1942-1950). (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 30058138 John Robert Murdock was born in 1885. He graduated from the State Teachers College in Kirksville, Missouri in 1912, and from the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1925. He did graduate work at the University of Arizona at Tucson and the University of Cal...

Douglas, Walter, 1870-1946

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Walter Douglas was involved in the mining and railroad industries of Arizona throughout his life. From 1895 to 1899, he worked for the Detroit Copper Company. In 1899, he became superintendent of the Copper Queen Consolidated Company at Bisbee, then served as general manager from 1902 to 1910, and then was general manager for Phelps Dodge. From 1917 to 1930, he was president of Phelps Dodge. His son, Walter, Jr., operated Gilpin Airlines in Tucson. From the description of Douglas min...

Hayden, Carl Trumbull, 1877-1972

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Cox Mobile Home Estates (Tucson, Ariz.)

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Grand Canyon Airlines.

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Gilpin Airport (Tucson, Ariz.)

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United States. Civil Air Patrol

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"The first Civil Air Patrol members of 1941... served their country by sinking or chasing away German submarines off America's East and Gulf coasts... Today, CAP handles 90 percent of inland search and rescue missions." -- "Civil Air Patrol: A Proud Legacy Continues." Civil Air Patrol. http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/html/commander.htm (Retrieved June 20, 2009) From the description of U.S. Civil Air Patrol letters, 1942 September. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 42873298...

Douglas, Walter, 1910-1987.

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Biographical note: Walter Douglas, Jr., an aviation businessman, was the son of Walter Douglas, prominent in railroad development in southern Arizona and Mexico and president and chairman of Phelps Dodge Mining Company, and the grandson of James Douglas, pioneer mining development and president of the Phelps Dodge until 1918. Walter Douglas, Jr. was born in Bisbee, Ariz. in 1910, then moved with his family to New York. He returned to Tucson in 1934, at the urging of his godmother, Isabella Green...