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Corporations, 1920s-1940s (continued)
ITEM 5 Photograph of 49th Squadron. Bombing practice with target moving at 15 knots.
ITEM 6 Photograph of various missiles listing type, cost, weight, and helium content.
ITEM 7 Map of Missions of the 11th and 31st Squadrons.
ENVELOPE 2 Commercial Air.
ITEM 1 Advertisement for the company S.E.C.M., an aircraft manufacturer. Below company name is the line “Avions Amiot. Colombes.” Enclosed in folded piece of paper labeled, “Monsieur Saladin.”
ITEM 2 Letter from the company, Colombes-Goodrich, to Mr. Max Blondel la Rougery on the topic of commercial aviation management.
ITEM 3 Map showing the lines of the Trans-Europa Union and “Groupement Allemand Junkers.” Opposite side is release from the French Committee of Aeronautic propaganda.
ENVELOPE 3 Cartoons.
ITEM 1 Set of eight cartoons from “La Curiosité du Salon” and special legends are shown. The first three cartoons in the series are consecutive.
ITEM 2 Small cartoon showing male artist painting.
ENVELOPE 4 Construction Materials.
ITEM 1 Publication from the Technical Bulletin of Truth (Bulletin Technique du Veritas) containing modern materials in marine and aviation, 1939.
ITEM 2 Single page from the Journal of the Association of German Engineers, from a set of engineering research.
ENVELOPE 5 Dirigibles and Zeppelins.
ITEM 1 Photograph with the primary caption, “Das verbrannte Daffagierluftfchiff.” Four men are pictured in lower right corner; man on the farthest left-hand side is the engineer – Dürr.
ITEM 2 Photograph of “Fine Luffdjiffhalle für Beppefin.”
ITEM 3 Article complete with photograph of Zeppelin in a hanger.
ITEM 4 Newspaper photograph of a Zeppelin (above) and a photograph of a hanger (below).
ITEM 5 Newspaper photograph of Zeppelins at a festival in Köln.
ITEM 6 Set of five newspaper articles (on three pages) all mentioning “Luftfchiffe” ~ Airships.
ITEM 7 Papers from 20 March 1909 with the translated title, “Powered Airships for Commercial Operation”, from the architect, August Krumholz.
ITEM 8 Circular magazine photograph with the caption, “Borderfeite der Montierungsballe mit Blattform und den beiden Referbeantern”. Two men look to be standing on the water-side of a larger hanger.
ITEM 9 One unidentified manuscript.
ITEM 10 Memorandum from J. Fochtenberger Stuttgart describing holes for airships.
ITEM 11 Letter from the desk of the Architect August Krumholz, 1910.
ENVELOPE 6 Designs and Advertisements.
ITEM 1 Advertisement postcard for “Harakiri.” Image shown is a sword piercing through four fish.
ITEM 2 Advertisement for French aviation company whose mission was for technical progress, aeronautics, pilots and navigation. Company logo is image of Rodin’s “The Thinker” behind blackened image of an airplane.
ITEM 3 Advertisement for “Max Hoste,” a French aircraft manufacture, now “Remis Aviation.”
ITEM 4 Advertisement for the company S.E.C.M., an aircraft manufacturer. Shown is panoramic image of plane entering the clouds.
ITEM 5 Storyboard for “Caudron Renault,” a combination of two aircraft manufacturers – Caudron and Renault.
ITEM 6 Blueprint showing device for flight muscle. Halluin, France is mentioned on blueprint.
ITEM 7 Another blueprint mentioning Halluin, France. This shows diagram of aircraft.
ITEM 8 Sketch of aircraft.
ITEM 9 French advertisement for the Renault aviation motors including the 450 CV, 700 CV and 550 CV. The advertisement shows a young, patriotically-dressed French girl holding a cage with aircraft flying in the clear blue sky.
ITEM 10 Color photograph of an unidentified aircraft.
ITEM 11 Image sketch of automobile juxtaposed with an aircraft. Opposite side is an unfinished sketch of a similar setting.
ITEM 12 Advertisement with a bright red car speeding down the road. Tagline reads, “Le Graissage Rationnel de la Voiture.”
ITEM 13 Sketch from same artist as ITEM 11. This shows man on motorcycle handing off a package to a grounded pilot flying solo in a small aircraft.
ITEM 14 Cover art from L’Aerophile magazine. Colorful cover shows two pilots discussing with a slew of aircraft flying in the background.
ITEM 15 Two blueprints (one small and one large) of airplane shown with scale.
ITEM 16 Drawing of a Göppingen 3, Minimoa, produced by the glider manufacturer, Sportflugzeugbau Göppingen.
ITEM 17 Advertisement for the aeronautical construction company, “Societe Provencale de Constructions Aeronautiques,” which specialized in plans, metal construction and hydroplanes.
ITEM 18 Advertisement for the offices for the seaplane by Liore and Olivier
ITEM 19 Advertisement poster for the engine company, Salmsom, advertising Salmson engines and post mail via aviation (airmail). Postman is shown flying a small plane throwing letters in the sky with the translated phrase, “Letters below... but careful...the ink... is not yet dry.”
ITEM 20 Advertisement poster for the engine company, Salmson. Poster describing the engine’s versatility, noting the engine’s ability to equip the lightest to the heaviest. Image shown is an elephant with wings.
ITEM 21 Poster board for French plane flying away from a French ship and an unidentified battleship. Artist was Maurice Jeanjean.
ITEM 22 Photograph of French woman standing on sand wearing a smock-style dress over her bathing suit.
ITEM 23 Drawing of aircraft flying over hill with a car driving down it. Juxtaposing flight and motor vehicle travel.
ITEM 24 A drawing from the same artist in ITEM 23, this drawing shows an aircraft coming in for a landing.
ITEM 25 Photograph of an aircraft flying through the sky.
ITEM 26 One unidentified colorful drawing.
ENVELOPE 7 Designs and Sketches.
ITEM 1 Series of three separate advertisement titles including “d'un ciel a l'autre -- revue de la presse aeronautique etrangere”, “les sports du ciel”, and “l'actualite Aérienne.”
ITEM 2 Original advertisement sign for “L’Aerophile – automobile” and “Greule de Requin.”
ITEM 3 Advertisment with the phrase “D’un ciel ... A L’Autre – Revue de la Presse Aéronautique Etrangère” loosely translated as “From one sky to another -- Journal of the International Aerospace Press.”
ITEM 4 Set of two diagrams showing what appears to be a French air pilot or a parachutist in full uniform. First diagram identifies 27 items on man’s front and second diagram identifies nine more items on his back.
ITEM 5 Diagrams mapping distance and velocity.
ITEM 6 Sketch with given dimensions of “17 m/m tall by 63 m/m wide.”
ITEM 7 Series of five figures, the first shows the five stages of propelling through the air at speed increments of 500 km/hr.
ITEM 8 Set of two figures involving space and time.
ITEM 9 Series of six figures describing the “Atomic Age”, September 1945.
ITEM 10 Series of 28 drawings showing propellers.
ITEM 11 Drawing titled, “L’espirit m’a tendu la main” translated as “The spirit reaches his hand to me”, March 1946.
ITEM 11 Unfinished drawing of soldiers smothering a higher-ranking official with chocolate bars and other delicacies.
ITEM 12 Series of two cartoons. Top cartoon shows officers gathered around a sign reading, “MALARIA,” bottom is of one officer standing unsettling with a gun, surrounded by other officers, equipped with wings, flying away.
ITEM 13 Series of three figures graphing automobile and fuel-related items.
ITEM 14 Series of six blueprints from the article “Les Avions de l’Amatiu.”
ITEM 15 Series of three sketches juxtaposing birds and aircrafts. Following are two Mylar envelopes with figures of physics diagrams.
ITEM 16 Two sets of figures showing an airplane part.
ITEM 17 Three drawings in an original envelope from the company “Avmobile” labeled as the first article given to Monsieur Labat. First drawing is of a cockpit, second is of an isolated glider with the wings folded along the beams and third is a profile sketch of the “Avmobile”. Also included are blueprints for “Avmobile.”
ITEM 18 Set of two graphs mapping weight vs. velocity and altitude vs. velocity.
ITEM 19 Top view of an engine.
ITEM 20 Series of three blueprints with descriptions of jet engines.
ITEM 21 Set of three sketches. First is a sketch with two sketches – left is angel playing a harp, right is airplane in the sky. Second is sketch with a helicopter at takeoff; plane is adorned with the phrase “Le Rat d’art,” and a cow is looking up curiously to the plane. Third is pilot in older plane while very close to a rooftop while another man looks out of a window.
ITEM 22 Prints showing flight routes and angles of travel.
ITEM 23 Graphics showing the problems with flight training.
ITEM 24 Set of two graphics showing the movement of a rocket in the solar system.
ITEM 25 Graph depicting the speed of cosmic rockets.
ITEM 26 Graph describing the limits imposed by nature, April 1946.
BOX 42 Aeronautical articles. 1940.
ENVELOPE 1 Military Air Transport (Magazine Clippings).
ENVELOPE 2 Divers.
ENVELOPE 3 L'Ecole Nationale Superieure de L' Aeronautique (program). 1949 (?)
ENVELOPE 4 Gliders (magazine clippings).
ENVELOPE 5 Grand Prix, France, 1912 (maps), 1923 (program).
ENVELOPE 6 Gyroplanes. 1930s.
ENVELOPE 7 Helicopteres Contre Sous-Marins.
ENVELOPE 8 German Anti-Submarine Warfare.
ENVELOPE 9 Kites, 1933.
ENVELOPE 10 Kites (pre WWI).
ENVELOPE 11 "Humorous Aviation." 1908-1912.
ENVELOPE 12 Aeronautical maps (France, Romania).
ENVELOPE 13 Maps and Plans #1.
ENVELOPE 14 Maps and Plans #2.
ENVELOPE 15 McFarland Collection.
BOX 43 Miscellaneous aircraft (French) paintings.
ENVELOPE 1 Miscellaneous Aircraft Paintings.
ENVELOPE 2 Miscellaneous Letters and Memos (France).
ENVELOPE 3 Miscellaneous Notes (Re: Model Aircraft).
ENVELOPE 4 Model Aircrafts: Packages and Kits #1 (Germany).
ENVELOPE 5 Model Aircrafts: Packages and Kits #2.
ENVELOPE 6 Miscellaneous Letters.
ENVELOPE 7 The N.C 702 Aircraft Publications and Photographs.
ENVELOPE 8 Model Aircrafts: Written Materials.
ENVELOPE 9 Foreign Naval Aviation.
ENVELOPE 10 New Aircraft on Display, 1946-1947.
ENVELOPE 11 Official Records.
ENVELOPE 12 On Board Instruments.
ENVELOPE 13 Organization Chart of the Bureau of Aircraft Production, 1918.
ENVELOPE 14 Pigeons Voyageurs.
ENVELOPE 15 Programs for Aviation Demos.
BOX 44 Radiogoniometers.
ENVELOPE 1 Radiogoniometres (et P.S.V.).
ENVELOPE 2 Shell Conversion Table.
ENVELOPE 3 SIPL 250 Aircraft Publications and Photos (French).
ENVELOPE 4 Societe des Moteurs Gnome & Rhone.
ENVELOPE 5 Technique Heroere.
ENVELOPE 6 Theatre des Champes Elysees: "Gala costes et Le Brix."
ENVELOPE 7 “Transports Aeriens.”
ENVELOPE 8 “Tube Cathodique.”
ENVELOPE 9 Uniweld Machine.
ENVELOPE 10 Aircraft production (Art drawing).
ENVELOPE 11 Flight of birds: studies.
ENVELOPE 12 Wind-tunnel studies.
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