Albums, 1929-1938
Part of collection: Lammot du Pont collection of aeronautical photographs (1975-360)
Dates
- Creation: 1929-1938
Scope and Contents
The Albums series contains looseleaf notebooks of materials on various airplanes and autogyros. These were kept like scrapbooks, some original photographs, comments, newspaper clippings, are included. The airplanes are ordered alphabetically within the notebooks by country of manufacture. Primarily American aircraft are documented, but also contains information about planes manufactured in Britain, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Russia, Mexico, Sweden, and Japan. These albums date between 1929 and 1938 and have been disbound for preservation purposes. There is also a small album of photographs of Flugboots (German seaplanes) and two albums belonging to Baron P. de Crawhez, a French race-car driver in the early twentieth century. The Crawhez albums contain photographs of automobiles, automobile races, and aircraft.
Extent
From the Collection: 18 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Additional Description
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access; this collection is open for research.
Negatives (Boxes 8-10) are located in remote storage. Please contact staff 48 hours in advance of research visit at askhagley@hagley.org
Glass plate negatives DO NOT CIRCULATE.
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository