Title: Aircraft Manufacturing Photographs
Inclusive Dates: circa 1925-1930

Call Number: PH 1075; PH 1155

Quantity: 0.3 cubic feet (1 archives box and 1 folder)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Photographs, circa 1925-1930, of aircraft, factory interiors, parts, fuselage details, engines, designs, experimental works, dirigibles, wind tunnel research, and transport of finished airplanes, as issued by manufacturers, including Curtiss Aero and Motor Company Inc., Ford Motor Company Aircraft Division, Fokker Aircraft Corporation, Hamilton Metalplane Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sikorksy Aviation Corporation, Wright Aeronautical, and others. Images of aircraft used on arctic and other historic flights, and a view of pilots George Wilkins and Ben Eielson posing with the single-engine Lockheed Vega which the two flew from Port Barrow, Alaska to Green Harbor, Spitsbergen in April 1928, are included. Pamphlets from some manufacturers are also included.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph01075

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Acquisition Information

Transferred from University of Wisconsin Extension, 1933.

PH 1075	Series: Photographs
Box   1 Folder   1	American Eagle Aircraft Corporation
Box   1 Folder   2	Bellanca Aircraft Corporation
Box   1 Folder   3	Cessna Aircraft Company
Box   1 Folder   4	Fairchild Aircraft Company
Box   1 Folder   5	Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America
Box   1 Folder   6	Ford Motor Company, Airplane Division
Box   1 Folder   7	Hamilton Metalplane Company
Box   1 Folder   8	Keystone Aircraft Corporation
Box   1 Folder   9	Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Box   1 Folder   10	Sikorsky Aviation Corporation
Box   1 Folder   11	Swallow Airplane Company
Box   1 Folder   12	Waco Aircraft Company
PH 1155	Curtiss Aero and Motor Company Inc., Ford, Fokker Aircraft Corporation, Sikorksy Aviation Corporation, Wright Aeronautical, and United States Navy, circa 1925-1930 Physical Description: 1 folder
PH 1075	Series: Pamphlets	⇧
Box   1 Folder   13	Bellanca Aircraft Corporation
Box   1 Folder   14	Fairchild Aircraft Company
Box   1 Folder   15	Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America
Box   1 Folder   16	Keystone Aircraft Corporation
Box   1 Folder   17	Mercury Flying Corporation
Box   1 Folder   18	Swallow Airplane Company
Box   1 Folder   19	Waco Aircraft Company