Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | John H. Towers papers, 1830-1989 |
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Inclusive Dates | 1830-1989 |
Bulk Dates | 1906-1955 |
ID No. | MSS81197 |
Creator | Towers, John H. (John Henry), 1885-1955 |
Extent | 5,000 items |
Extent | 15 containers plus 4 oversize |
Extent | 8 linear feet |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm93081197 |
Summary | United States Navy officer and early naval aviator. Diaries, naval and personal correspondence, memoranda, orders for duty, aviation logs, speeches and writings, biographical notebooks and sketches, photographs, reports, scrapbooks, blueprints, charts, and newspaper clippings documenting Towers's naval career and his participation in naval aviation from its inception in 1911 to World War II and after. |