Aviation Personalities Biographies Collection
Scope and Content
The collection is in good condition and was initially processed with only a container list as description. Due to a change of the content management system, further description proved to be necessary.
Dates
- Creation: 1909 - 1982
Language of Materials
Collection is in English.
Access Restrictions
Materials in this collection are open for research.
Literary Rights Statement
Permission to publish material from this collection in any form, current or future, must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives Division, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas.
Extent
9.6 Linear Feet (Twenty-four manuscript boxes)
Abstract
This artificial collection contains clippings, licenses, photographs, negatives, brochures, correspondence, press releases, sketches, biographical information, listings, and ephemera of aviation personalities.
Series Description
The archivist kept the original organization intact without any further arrangement.
Provenance Statement
This is an artificial collection. Provenance could not be established.
Image ID
It is the researcher's responsibility to secure permission from copyright holders of materials to which this institution does not own copyright.
Images in this collection are identified by a unique number that provides information about the format, record group, collection, series, box, folder, and image numbers. Please use this number when ordering reproductions of images from this collection.
Record Group Code
1 = CAT/Air American Archives
2 = Doolittle Archives
3 = Lighter than Air Archives
4 = George H. Williams, Jr., World War I Aviation Library
5 = History of Aviation Archives
6 = University Archives
7 = HAC Stacks
8 = WPRL Stacks
9 = Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Collection
10 = Belsterling Collection
11 = Closed Stacks
12 = Unidentified
13 = Chance Vought Archives
14 = Twirly Birds Archives
Image Format Code
P = Photograph/Postcard
S = Slide
N = Negative
T = Positive Transparency
B = Black and White
C = Color
Example: 5APB-1-1-PC1
5 = History of Aviation Archives
APB = Aviation Personalities Biographies Collection
1 = Box Number
1 = Folder Number
P = Photograph/Postcard
C = Color
1 = Image Number
Images archived in plastic image holders may also have a location code in the format: 1/TL. In this example, the number is the sheet number and the letters indicate the top left position on the sheet. Position indicators are T = top, L = left, R = right, M = middle, and B = bottom. Position indicators may be combined to describe the position on the sheet, as shown in this example.
Topical
- Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012
- Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950
- Beachey, Lincoln J., 1887-1915
- Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922
- Bellanca, Giuseppe Mario, 1886-1960
- Benoist, Tom
- Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936
- Byrd, David Harold, 1900-1986
- Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930
- Dassault, Marcel, 1892-1986
- De Havilland, Geoffrey, 1882-1965
- Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993
- Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937
- Farman, Henri, 1874-1958
- Foulois, Benjamin D., 1879-1967
- Gabreski, Francis
- History of Aviation Archives
- Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926
- Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976
- Jaynes, Jack B., 1897-
- Lear, William P. (William Powell), 1902-1978
- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
- Lilienthal, Otto, 1848-1896
- Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974
- Locklear, Ormer Leslie, 1891-1920
- Magee, John, 1922-1941
- Martin, Glenn L. (Glenn Luther), 1886-1955
- Mikoi︠a︡n, Artem Ivanovich, 1905-1970
- Mooney, Al
- Ninety-Nines (Organization)
- Ong, William A.
- Post, Augustus, 1873-1952
- Post, Wiley, 1898-1935
- Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973
- Schirra, Wally
- Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972
- Smith, C. R. (Cyrus Rowlett), 1899-1990
- Turner, Roscoe, 1895-1970
- Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977
- Westmoreland, William C. (William Childs), 1914-2005
- Whitehead, Gustave, 1874-1927
- Wright, Orville, 1871-1948.
- Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912
- Yeager, Chuck, 1923-
- Title
- Guide to the Aviation Personalities Biographies Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Patrizia Nava, CA
- Date
- 2018-10-29
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English (eng)
- Edition statement
- First revision by Patrizia Nava, CA. 2018-10-29.
Revision Statements
- 2018-10-29: 1st revision was a migration to ArchivesSpace by Patrizia Nava, CA.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Division, History of Aviation Archives. Repository
3020 Waterview Pkwy
SP2
Suite 11.206
Richardson Texas 75080 US
972-883-2570
LIBSPCO@utdallas.edu.