Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

Container	Title
	Series: 4. General William "Billy" Mitchell, 1880-1999 Scope and Content Note: The series contains materials related to the life and military career of military aviation pioneer General William "Billy" Mitchell. This collection is comprised primarily of photographs of Mitchell, his aviation, military and business associates, aircraft, and most notably, a series of photos documenting his successful demonstration to the U.S. military of the merits of aerial bombardment of the German Battleship Ostfriesland. Also included are over 40 watercolors painted by Mitchell, reflecting scenes throughout his career. The balance of the collection includes copies of newspaper and magazine articles about Mitchell, his aggressive advocacy of air power, his censure by the military, and his eventual court martial. Ironically, many of the tactics of air power for which he lobbied in the 1920s that are documented here were developed for use during the Second World War. Also included is a 1941 Congressional Resolution posthumously reinstating Mitchell into the Army at his former rank of general.
Box 6 Folder 3	Aguinaldo, Emilio, Philippines, Photographs, 1924
	Air Reconnaissance Photographs
Box 6 Folder 4	France, 1918
Box 6 Folder 5	France and Luxembourg, 1919
Box 6 Folder 6	Undated
Box 6 Folder 7	Airfields, Photographs, 1920, 1931
Box 6 Folder 8-9	Airplanes, Photographs, 1921-1932
Box 6 Folder 10	Alaska, Photographs, 1901, 1903
Box 6 Folder 11	Armed Forces Airplanes, Photographs, 1921-1922
Box 7 Folder 1	Army Base, Photographs, circa 1920s
Box 6 Folder 12-13	Bane, Thurman, Correspondence, 1919-1922
Box 6 Folder 14-15	Battleship Bombing, Photographs, 1921
Box 17 Folder 1	Beginning of Court Martial, Painting, undated
Box 7 Folder 2	Bibliography, Books and Articles, undated
Box 7 Folder 3	Billy Mitchell Award, Programs, 1965-1980
Box 17 Folder 2	Boats Being Built to Run Tanana River, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 3	Bombing Effects on Warships, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 4	Bombing Mission, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 5	Boxwood, Virginia, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 6	Cabin Along Telegraph Line, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 7	Caching Equipment Along Route, Painting, undated
Box 7 Folder 4	Correspondence, 1898-1904, 1928
Box 17 Folder 8	Court Marshall Newspaper, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 9	Court Marshall Trial, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 10	Demonstrating Bomb Effects on Warships, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 11	Dirty Towel in Lunch Stop, Painting, undated
Box 12 Folder 1	Doerflinger, Joseph and Albert F. Toepfer, Photographs, 1963
Box 7 Folder 5	Fladoes, Harriet Mitchell, Photographs, undated
Box 7 Folder 6	Flag, Photographs and Descriptions, 1992
Box 7 Folder 7	Ford, Henry, and Orville Wright, Photographs, 1925, 1926
Box 7 Folder 8	Ford, Henry, Photographs, 1926
Box 17 Folder 12	Fort Egbert in Summer, Camp Scene, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 13	Fort Egbert in Winter, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 14	General Billy Mitchell, Paintings, undated
Box 7 Folder 9	General Mitchell Field, 50th Anniversary, Program, 1976
Box 7 Folder 10	General William Mitchell: Air Power Pioneer, 1879-1936, Pamphlet, undated
Box 12 Folder 8	General William Mitchell, Photograph Presentation, Photographs, undated
Box 24 Folder 16	General William Mitchell Stamps, 1999
Box 7 Folder 11	Goldwater, Barry, and Harriet Mitchell Fladoes, 1959
Box 7 Folder 12	Grade School Portrait, undated
Box 7 Folder 13	Gravesite, Photographs, undated
Box 17 Folder 15	Insignia on "Osprey," Mitchell's Plane, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 16	Installing Telegraph Lines Along Tanana River, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 17	Inventory of Paintings, undated
Box 7 Folder 14	King, Charles, Photographs, 1898
Box 17 Folder 18	Laying Telegraph Line, Fort Egbert to Valdez, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 19	Laying Telegraph Lines in Cuba, Painting, undated
Box 7 Folder 15	Library of Congress, Division of Bibliography, Mitchell Reference List, 1942
Box 17 Folder 20	Lunch Stop on Trail, Fort Skagway to Fort Egbert, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 21	Map of Alaska, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 22	Map of Cuba, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 23	Map of Philippine Islands, Painting, undated
Box 7 Folder 16	Meadowmere, Photographs, undated
Box 7 Folder 17	Medal of Honor, Press Releases, Photographs, 1948
Box 7 Folder 18	Medals, List, Photographs, undated
Box 17 Folder 24	Military Camp in Florida, Painting, undated
Box 7 Folder 19-20	Miscellaneous, Photographs, undated
Box 7 Folder 21	Mitchell Airplanes, Photographs, 1922-1923
Box 7 Folder 22	Mitchell Designed Car, Photographs, 1928
Box 7 Folder 23-24	Mitchell, John, Photographs, 1918
Box 7 Folder 25	Mitchell Speech, Program, 1920s
Box 7 Folder 26	Mitchell Trophy Air Races, Program, 1936
Box 24 Folder 19	Mitchell Trophy Race, 1935
	News Clippings
Box 10 Folder 1	1905
Box 8 Folder 1	1910-191?
Box 8 Folder 2	1920-1922
Box 10 Folder 2-3	1925-1927
Box 8 Folder 3	1931
Box 8 Folder 4	1935
Box 10 Folder 4-6	1941-1943
Box 8 Folder 5	1946
Box 10 Folder 7	1950-1951
Box 8 Folder 6-11	1953-1959
Box 8 Folder 12-15	1961-1967
Box 8 Folder 16-18	1973, 1975, 1979
Box 8 Folder 19-21	1985, 1986, 1989
Box 10 Folder 8	Undated
Box 8 Folder 22	Osprey Plane, Drawing, undated
Box 17 Folder 25	Overseas Assignments, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 26	Passage from Seattle to Skagway, Painting, undated
Box 8 Folder 23	Passport, 1921-1922
Box 17 Folder 27	Personal Plane "Osprey," Painting, undated
	Philippines, Photographs
Box 8 Folder 24	1909
Box 8 Folder 25	1924
	Photographs
Box 8 Folder 26	1880, 1888-1895
Box 8 Folder 27	1898
Box 7 Folder 29	1903
Box 12 Folder 2	1911
Box 8 Folder 28-29	1911, 1913-1914
Box 8 Folder 30-33	1917-1920
Box 12 Folder 3-6	1917-1922
Box 10 Folder 9-10	1919, 1924
Box 9 Folder 1-6	1921-1926
Box 9 Folder 7-8	1931, undated
Box 12 Folder 7	1935
Box 10 Folder 11	Undated
Box 12 Folder 9	Undated
Box 17 Folder 28	Practice Bombing Obsolete Warships, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 29	Practice Bombing of Warships, Painting, undated
Box 9 Folder 9	Prince of Wales, Photographs, 1919
Box 9 Folder 10	Production Agreement with Warner Brothers Studio, 1955
Box 9 Folder 11	Prophecy and Honor, Play Script, 1993
Box 9 Folder 12	Resolution 240, United States House of Representatives, Restoring Mitchell's Rank, 1941
Box 9 Folder 13	Rogers, Will, Washington, D.C., Photographs, 1925
Box 17 Folder 30	Running Down on the Tanana River, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 31	Running Rapids on Tanana River Through to Fairbanks, Painting, undated
	Scrapbook
Box 11 Folder 1-5	1918-1956
Box 11 Folder 6-7	1939-1942
Box 17 Folder 32	Second Passage from Seattle to Skagway, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 33	Shooting the Rapids on the Tanana River, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 34	Sleeping in Snow Cave, Painting, undated
Box 9 Folder 14	Slides, Listing, 1880s-1941 Physical Description: Slides (35 mm)
	Statue
Box 9 Folder 15	Photographs, 1992-1993
Box 9 Folder 16	Unveiling, Program, 1957
Box 17 Folder 35	Steamboat on Yukon River, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 36	Surveying Telegraph Line, Fort Egbert to Valdez, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 37	Telegraph Line in Command Post, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 38	United States Forces in France, First Flight Over War Area, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 39	Visiting Each Cabin on the Telegraph Line, Winter Scene, Painting, undated
Box 9 Folder 17	Volunteer Signal Officer: Billy Mitchell in the Philippine Insurrection, 1899-1901, Paper, 1985
Box 10 Folder 11	War Department Reports, 1900-1917
Box 9 Folder 18	Wedding Invitation, 1903
Box 17 Folder 40	Winter Camp, Fort Egbert to Valdez, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 41	Winter Garments, Adapted from Indians, Painting, undated
Box 17 Folder 42	Winter on the Christmas Trail, Painting, undated
Box 9 Folder 19	Wright, Orville, Photographs, 1925
Box 9 Folder 20	Zeidler, Carl, Gravesite, Photographs, 1941