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BOX 13-14 Miscellany, 1878-1989
Aviation logs, family photographs, reports, essays, correspondence, scrapbooks, and other items arranged alphabetically by type of material and either chronologically or alphabetically therein.
BOX 13 Aviation logs
Curtiss planes, 1911-1914
Wright planes, 1911-1913
Blueprint of Rodman Wanamaker Trans-Atlantic flying boat, 1914 See Oversize
Blueprints of flying boats, 1914 See Oversize
Currency, German and Russian, 1909, 1917-1923
Curtiss, Glenn H., biographical sketch, 1878-1913
Genealogy, undated
Institute of War and Peace Studies, New York, N.Y., 1952-1954, undated
"Lt. T. G. Ellyson and the First Navy Wings," by Elretta Sudsbury, undated
Photographs, 1889-1909, 1938-1965, undated
Register of visitors to the commander in chief, United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, 1945-1946 See Oversize
BOX 14 Reynolds, Clark G., correspondence regarding Towers biography, 1979-1989, undated
(2 folders)
Scrapbooks
Autographs of visitors to the Towers home in Hawaii, 1946, undated
Christening of the aircraft carrier Roosevelt by Pierrette Anne Towers, 1942-1945
Dedication of Towers Field at the United States Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla., 1960, Oct. 15
Newspaper clippings on Towers's career, 1912-1951 See Oversize
Towers, Pierrette Anne, 1939-1943, 1954-1987, undated
Transatlantic flight (1919)
Navigation charts, 1919 See Oversize
Reports, 1914-1919
Scrapbook See Oversize
United States Fleet Umpire Instructions, 1932
BOX 15 Addition, 1830-1900
Photocopies of a travel journal, a typewritten transcript of a diary, and of a typescript of Civil War reminiscences.
Arranged alphabetically by name of writer and then by type of material and chronologically therein.
BOX 15 Norton, Reuben S.
Diary, 1861-1865, 1888-1895
Travel journal, 1830
Towers, William M., reminiscences of the Civil War, 1900
BOX OV 1-OV 4 Oversize, 1912-1951
Blueprints, charts, registers, and scrapbooks.
Organized and described according to the series, folders, and boxes from which the items were removed.
BOX OV 1 Miscellany
Blueprint of Rodman Wanamaker Trans-Atlantic Flying Boat, 1914 (Container 13)
Blueprints of flying boats, 1914 (Container 13)
Register of visitors to the commander in chief, United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, 1945-1946 (Container 13)
BOX OV 2* Scrapbooks
*These scrapbooks are extremely fragile and should be served with care.
Newspaper clippings on Towers's career
1912-1951 (Container 14)
1939-1942 (Container 14)
BOX OV 3 Transatlantic flight, 1919
Navigation charts (Container 14)
BOX OV 4 Scrapbook (Container 14)

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