MS-226

Aviation Ephemera IV

Special Collections and Archives Wright State University Libraries

Processed by: Ritchie Thomas March 1992

Introduction

A collection of materials relating to aviation, mostly pamphlets and journals. These materials were formerly a part of the pamphlet collection. The provenance is not known. The collection consists of one Hollinger box and contains ten files.

Container Listing Series I Box File 1 1 Dayton, Ohio, Wright Brothers, etc. Item Item Description 1 NCR World includes articles on the U.S. Air Force Museum, National Cash Register in Aviation, Wright Flyer, John Silver, Dayton Wright Co., and the Kettering Bug. 2 NCR World, Second Edition Honoring 75th Anniversary of Flight. Includes the Wright Brothers Camera, the worlds First Practical Airplane, by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith. 3 Republican News, Hamilton, Ohio. Fifty Aero planes ordered of Wright. 4 Seventy-five years of powered dynamic flight. Pioneers of the United Kingdom Aircraft Industry. 5 Wright Brothers-boyhood mechanics to aviation pioneers, by Jerome Leader. In society of automotive engineers. (pages 91-98) 6 Wright Sees Drift Toward Some Form of Socialism, by Fred C. Kelly, Dayton News. 7 Proclamation 4699, Wright Brothers Day. Federal Register, Vol. 44, No. 215. 8 The First Season at Kitty Hawk, by Tom D. Crouch. American Heritage. (Pages 94-105) 9 Putting Aircraft to work; The First Air Freight, by Roger Bilstein. Ohio History. (Pages 247- 258) Gustave Whitehead Item Item Description 1 Did Whitehead Fly before the Wrights? By William J. ODwyer. American Aircraft Modeler. (Pages 14-17, 48-56) AAHS Journal; Summer 1983; Spring 1984 Item Item Description 1 American Aviation Historical Society Journal includes The Race From Point Zero Curtiss vs. Wright, (pgs. 82-92); The Douglas DC-1, by Mauno Salo (pgs. 105-117); What killed Harriet Quimby? By Frank J. Delear (pgs.118-119); Jim Warner, by Tom Warner (pgs. 140-143); American-Built Civilian Airplanes in the Netherland East Indies, by Gerard J. Casius (pgs. 144-148)

Date Sept.- Oct. 1970 and 1905

1903

October 1, 1908 1903-1908 Sept. 1948

April 13, 1934 November 2, 1979 April 1988 Autumn 1967

Series II Box File 1 2

Date November 1968

Series III Box File 1 3

Date Summer 1983

American Aviation Historical Society Journal includes column cover, the 366th Fighter group in WWII, part II, by Harold by Norman Holt (pgs 215); Fairchild F.19 Flying-Boat type Amphibian, by Noboru Jyoko (pgs. 16-18); Fabulous Belmont Park, By Henry S. Villard (pgs. 20-25); Ruth Nichols, by R.M. Valerioti (pgs. 27-40); NAS Moffett Field, By Merle Olmsted (pgs. 64-73)

Spring 1984

Series IV Box File 1 4

U.S. Air Force Logistics Command Item Item Description 1 Wright Patterson: The Land Across the Valley, by Gen. F. Michael Rogers (17 pages) 2 Legacy of Citizen Airmen, by Gen. F. Michael Rogers. Address to the Newcomen Society of Dayton, Ohio 3 History of the 2750 Air Base Wing, Vol. I, Chap. VIII. Xenia Tornado Relief, by Shelby E. Wickam. Air Force Journal Item Item Description 1 Air Force: The official service journal of the U.S. Army Air Forces. 2 Air Force: Milt Caniffs Air Force, by James H. Winchester. Brief Item Item Description 1 Brief, Vol. 2, No. 41. Airborne Victory. U.S. Army Air Forces Material Center Item Item Description 1 The material center and you; a handbook for your guidance, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio (91 pgs.) Hawaiian Bomber Command Item Item Description 1 The Hickam Bomber; A pictorial review of the Hawaiian Bomber Command, Hickam Field, T.H. Alfred W. Lawson Item Item Description 1 Letter from Richard H, Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Daniel Aeronautical Laboratory, to Roy Hockensmith, Wood, 4

Date

Aug. 10, 1976

July 1972, June 1974; March 1975

Series V Box File 1 5

Date June 1944 July 1957

Series VI Box File 1 6 Series VII Box File 1 7

Date June 28, 1944

Date Jan. 1943

Series VIII Box File 1 8

Date 1942

Series VIIII Box File 1 9

Date

2 3

Wisconsin, containing biographical information on Alfred W. Lawson. Benefactor, Vol. 5, No. 7. Special Aviation Historical Issue. Benefactor, Vol. 5, No. 8. Special Aviation Historical Issue.

Series X Box File 1 10

National Geographic Society Item Item Description 1 National Geographic Society. Selected National Geographic Articles Containing Information on Aviation.

Date 1918-1972