Administrative Information
Provenance
The scrapbooks of the Aero Club of America, an organization founded to promote aeronautics, were transferred to the Manuscript Division in 1954 from the Aeronautics Section in the Science Division of the Library of Congress. They were probably acquired for the Library by Albert F. Zahm, chief of the Aeronautical Division (later the Aeronautics Section in the Science Division), sometime between 1929 and 1946.
Processing History
The collection was processed in 2005. The finding aid was revised in 2009.
Other Repositories
Related collections in other repositories include the papers of Hugh L. Willoughby, who compiled some of the scrapbooks in the Aero Club collection, at the Newport, Rhode Island Historical Society, and the papers of Albert F. Zahm at the University of Notre Dame, which also contains Aero Club material.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Aero Club of America Scrapbooks, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.