MS-156

Aviation Ephemera II

Special Collections and Archives

Wright State University Libraries

Processed by:
Marjorie Brown
May 1986
Updated April 2009
Sara Boteler

Introduction An individuals collection of magazines, pamphlets, pictures, and clippings related to aviation. The collection dates from 1889 to 1980. This collection is a companion to Special Collections and Archives three other aviation ephemera collections, MS-37, MS-205, and MS-226. There are no restrictions to this collection. The Collection is organized into 3 series:
Series I: Series II: Series III: Publications
Memorabilia
Photographs

Scope and Content Note The Aviation Ephemera II consists of the following three series: Series I, Publications, includes magazines, pamphlets and brochures. The magazines entitled LIllustration are written in French and the magazines entitled Flugsport are written in German Series II, Memorabilia includes programs to events, stamp collection, flip out book and other souvenir type items. Series III, Photographs, includes aerial shots and airplanes. Within each series the folders are arranged chronological than alphabetical within each given date.

Container Listing

Series I Box 1 File 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Box 2 File 1 2 3

Magazine Item Puck, Vol. XXV, No. 652 (located in Box 8 File 1) American Scientific, Vol. LXX, No. 15 (located in Box 8 File 2) Munseys Magazine Pluck and Luck, No. 210 Munseys Magazine Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. XXII, No. 6 Physical Culture, Vol. XX, No. 6 The American Review of Reviews, Vol. XL, No. 5 Success Magazine (located in Box 8 File 3) Judge: Glad to see her back, Vol. LX. No. 1531 The Aero, Vol. V, No. 101 (located in Box 8 File 4) The Aero, Vol. V, No. 105 (located in Box 8 File 5) Ads, articles, and pictures from publications Judge: High Flyer Number The Aero, vol. VI, No. 108 (located in Box 8 File 6) Scientific American, Vol. CVI, No. 26 (located in Box 8 File 7) Newspapers & Magazine Articles The Picture Land Put-together Book for Little Hands and Little Heads Articles and stories on WWI aircraft National Geographic National Geographic Red Cross Magazine Flying, Vol. VII, No. 8 The Sixty-fifth Eyes Right paper ( located in Box 8 File 8) Lee Keedick War Lectures pamphlet Saunders of Cowes in the Isle of Wight supplement to Flight Ads and articles on airplane parts and engines Item Articles on warplanes The Lamp Popular Science, Vol. 106, No. 2 4
Date Sep. 4, 1889 Apr. 14, 1894 Dec. 1901 Jun. 11, 1902 1903 Sep. 1905 Dec. 1908 Nov. 1909 Nov. 1909 Feb. 18, 1911 Aug. 1911 Dec. 1911 1911-1929 Mar. 2, 1912 Mar. 1912 Jun. 29, 1912 1915-1915, 1930, 1965, undated 1916 1916-1936 Jan. 1918 Jun. 1918 Jul. 1918 Sep. 1918 Oct. 5, 1918 1918 May 8, 1919 1921-1930 Date 1921-1949 Dec. 1924 Feb. 1925

Box 2

File 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Item Popular Science, Vol. 106, No. 5 American Review of Reviews, Vol. LXXIIL, No. 436 Tables and Charts Selected from Appendix to Airplane Design National Geographic Scientific American (located in Box 8 File 9) Scientific American (located in Box 8 File 10) Scientific American (located in Box 8 File 11) Aero Digest Scientific American (located in Box 8 File 12) Dedication of Wright Field By Government Officials Will Provide United States with Worlds Largest Aviation Plant. Aviation Progress (located in Box 8 File 13) Lindbergh in Paris First Heavier-Than Air Flying Machine Gloster, The Aeroplane supplement Aviation Fundamental Facts about Flying Liberty National Life Magazine: Famous Flights of History The Sportsman Pilot Airway Age Universal Air Lines System Travel by Air brochure Airway Age Western Flying Item Aero Digest Aero Digest Fortune (located in Box 8 File 14) The Southern Aviator Flugsport, No. 25 LAeronautique, No. 139 (located in Box 8 File 15) Ads, articles and pictures from publications Aircraft Tubing Data by Summerill tubing Co. Highlights of the Byrd Transatlantic Expedition Sikorsky Wright Aeronautical Engines Aero Digest Aeronautical Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 2 Aeronautical Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1 Aeronautical Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2 LIllustration, No. 4669 (located in Box 8 File 16) 5

Date May 1925 May 1926 Jul. 1926 Sep. 1926 Sep. 1926 Oct. 1926 Nov. 1926 Dec. 1926 Dec. 1926 Oct. 8, 1927

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Box 3 File 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

1927 Apr. 1928 Oct. 24, 1928 1928 Jan. 1929 Feb. 1929 Apr. 1929 May 1929 Nov. 1,1929 Feb. 1930 M ar. 1930 Date Apr. 1930 Apr. 1930 Apr. 1930 Jun. 1930 Dec. 10, 1930 Dec. 1930 1930-1934 1930 1930 1930 1930 Apr. 1931 Apr. Jun. 1931 Jan. Mar. 1932 Apr. Jun. 1932 Aug. 27, 1932

Box 3

File 17 18

Item LIllustration Numero de LAeronautique, No. 4681 (located in Box 8 File 17) United States Naval Institute Proceedings, No. 373, Vol. 60, No. 3 Pan American Airways System Time Tables, tariffs Pamphlet LIllustration Numero de LAeronautique, No. 4785 (located in Box 8 File 18) Envol Ads, Articles, and Pictures from Publications Item Aviation Atlas A Shrine to Wrights Re-Erected by Ford Detroit News Paul Jones Step by-Step Course in Model Aviation (located in Box 8 File 19) Wright Boys Born Inventers; Says Ex-Printing Partner Dayton Journal LIllustration LAeronautique (located in Box 8 File 20) Sperry Scope, Vol. 8, No. 10 Flugsport Flugsport Flugsport Popular Aviation Popular Aviation Yankee Popular Aviation The Bee-Hive Flying and Popular Aviation Ads, articles and Pictures from Publications Air Progress National Aircraft Collection Flight Sheet, Vol. 1, No. 11 Silhouette Handbook of United States Army Air Forces Airplanes Air Progress Air Progress Air Progress Air Progress Air Tails (located in Box 8 File 21) 6

Date Nov. 19, 1932 Mar. 1934

19 20 21 22 Box 4 File 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

May 1, 1934 Nov. 17, 1934 Apr. 1935 1935-1939 Date 1935-1936 1936 1936 Feb. 9, 1938 Nov. 19, 1938 Apr. 1939 Jan. 4, 1939 Jan. 18, 1939 Feb. 1, 1939 Feb. 1939 Mar. 1939 Mar. 1940 Apr. 1940 Sep.-Oct. 1940 Oct. 1940 1940-1949 1941 1941 Sep. 1942 Sep. 1942 Oct. 1942 1942 Jul. 1943 Sep. 1943 Oct. 1943

Box 4

File 26 27 28 29 30 31 File 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Item U.S. Army-Navy Journal of Recognition, No.8 Recognition Journal, No. 20 Recognition Journal, No. 22 Air Transportation Aeronautics, Vol. 13, No. 6 Aeronautics, Vol. 14. No. 1 Item The Cub Flier, Vol. 10, No. 1 Aeronautics, Vol. 14, No. 3 Aeronautics Esso Air World, Vol. 1 No. 1 English Sopwith Dolphin Fuselage Details (located in Box 8 File 22) My Story of the Wright Brothers by Charles E. Taylor in Colliers Ads, Articles and Pictures from Publications Aeronautics, Vol. 25, No. 1 Ground Observers Guide Wingfoot Lighter Than Air Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 8 Analysis of Maneuvers Private Pilot Certification Federal Aviation Regulation Kane Aviation Manual Private Pilot Certification Yankee New Canaan Historical Society After the Battle, No. 25 Wright-Patterson Memories Take Flight Though Past Dayton Daily News Northeast Magazine Ads, Articles, and Pictures from Publicans Airport Maps Curtiss P-40F Warhawk Info Card General Abiation Company Identification of U.S. Army Aircraft P-38 Lockheed Lighting Boucher Piper Cub Super Cruiser Boucher The U.S.S. Saratoga

Date Apr. 1944 Apr. 1945 Jun. 1945 Aug. 1945 Jan. 1946 Feb. 1946 Date Mar.-Apr. 1946 Apr. 1946 May 1946 Nov. 1947 1947 Dec. 25, 1948 1950-1953 Aug. 1951 Nov. 1951 Jun. 1963 1964 1964 1967 1967 1967-1968 Sep. 1968 1975 1979 May6, 1984 Jul. 1986 Undated Undated Undated Undated Undated Undated Undated Undated

Box 5

Series II Box 6 File 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Memorabilia Item Aviation Meets and Expositions Programs Mayhew Graduation Certificate The Mentor: Aerial Navigation, Vol. 7, No. 7 Thanksgiving and Christmas Menus International Air Races Program Lindbergh (Eagle of U.S.A) Sheet Music Shop That Became A Shrine A Recital of The Real Story of The First Flight in an Aeoplane by Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio Banquet Menu Grumman Aircraft: A Decade of Progress The International Harmon Trophy Chronicle of the Aviation Industry in America Planes of the Past Flipout book 75th Anniversary Envelopes and Stamps A Modern Lullaby Sheet Music Official Souvenir Book and Daily Program Official Program Observance by the city of Dayton, Ohio of the 25th Anniversary of 1st Areoplane Flight The Horizontal Position During Glider flight by Wilbur Wright Oversized Ariel Photographs Aviation Photos and Specifications (located in Box 8 File 23) Photograph Item Various Ariel and Plane Pictures Oversize material from the collection Date Undated Date 1909, 1912 1918 May, 15, 1919 1919 Oct. 1924 1927 Dec. 7, 1928

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

1928 1929-1939 1937 1950 1970 Sep. 1978 Undated Undated Undated Undated Undated Undated

Series III Box 7 File

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Puck, Vol. XXV, No. 652 (from Box 1 File 1) American Scientific, Vol. LXX, No. 15 (from Box 1 File 2) Success Magazine (from Box 1 File 9) The Aero, Vol. V, No. 101(from Box 1 File 11) The Aero, Vol. V, No. 105 (from Box 1 File 12) The Aero, Vol. VI, No. 108 (from Box 1 File 15) Scientific American, Vol. CVI, No. 26 (from Box 1 File 16) 8

Sep. 4, 1889 Apr. 14, 1894 Nov. 1909 Aug. 1911 Dec. 1911 Mar. 1912 Jun. 29, 1912

8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

The Sixty-fifth Eyes Right paper (from Box 1 File 24) Scientific America(from Box 2 File 8) Scientific American (from Box 2 File 9) Scientific American (from Box 2 File 10) Scientific American (from Box 2 File 12) Dedication of Wright Field By Government Officials Will Provide United States with Worlds Largest Aviation Plant. Aviation Progress (from Box 2 File 13) Fortune (from Box 3 File 3) LAeronautique, No. 139 (from Box 3 File 6) LIllustration, No. 4669 (from Box 3 File 16) LIllustration Numero de LAeronautique, No. 4681 (from Box 3 File 17) LIllustration Numero de LAeronautique, No. 4785 (from Box 3 File 20) Paul Jones Step by-Step Course in Model Aviation (from Box 4 File 3) LIllustration LAeronautique (from Box 4 File 5) Air Trails (from Box 4 File 25) English Sopwith Dolphin Fuselage Details (from Box 5 File 5) Aviation Photos and Specifications (from Box 6 File 19)

Oct. 5, 1918 Sep. 1926 Oct. 1926 Nov. 1926 Oct. 8, 1927

Apr. 1930 Dec. 1930 Aug. 27, 1932 Nov. 19, 1932 Nov. 17, 1934 1936 Nov. 19, 1938 Oct. 1943 1947 Undated