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Personal File, 1906-1962
(continued) |
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1906-1920
(continued) |
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(2 folders) |
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BOX 4 |
1921-1947
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(2 folders) |
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Speeches and writings |
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Speeches |
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1926, 1951-1953, Address at
Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
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1931
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Feb. 25, Address before
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York |
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Apr. 23, "Modern
Development of Aircraft," Daughters of the American Revolution
Convention, Washington, D.C. |
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1939
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Jan. 11, "Mutual Problems
in Air Transportation--Military and Commercial," Detroit,
Mich. |
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Oct. 27, Address at Navy
Day, Atlanta Athletic Club, Atlanta, Ga. |
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1940, Dec. 3, Address at
Association of Commerce dinner, Norfolk, Va. |
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1941, Mar., Statement before
the Truman Committee, United States Senate |
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circa 1945-circa 1955,
"Strategic Employment of Naval Forces..." |
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circa 1948-circa 1955,
Address at the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. |
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1952, Oct. 24, Address before
Aviation Commandery |
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1953, Feb. 9, Address on
aviation topics |
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1954
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Jan. 18, Address at Naval
Air Station, Norfolk, Va. |
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Jan. 26, Address before
the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, New York, N.Y. |
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circa 1954, "Early Days of
Naval Aviation" |
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Undated |
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Address before the National Defense
Committee of the American Legion |
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Miscellaneous |
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Writings |
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1919, Nov., "The Great Hop,"
Everybody's Magazine
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circa 1919
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"Aircraft Navigation in Connection with
Trans-Atlantic Flight" |
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"Story of the N.C. 3," New York World
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1933-1934, Papers written at
the Naval War College |
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1934, Senior class thesis,
Naval War College |
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Undated |
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"Flying--As Was" |
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Partial autobiographical
manuscript |
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"Twenty Years of Naval Aviation,
Chapter 1, Hammondsport” |
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BOX 5-13 |
Biographical Notebooks, 1845-1969
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Unbound notebooks, organized by Pierrette Anne Towers, containing photographs,
correspondence, memoranda, transcriptions, newspaper and magazine clippings,
photocopies of correspondence, notes, and excerpts. |
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A group of chronological notebooks are arranged by year. Subject notebooks are
arranged alphabetically by subject headings provided and organized by Pierrette
Anne Towers. |
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BOX 5 |
Chronological |
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1906-1911
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(7 folders) |
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BOX 6 |
1912-1913
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(6 folders) |
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BOX 7 |
1914-1916
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(7 folders) |
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BOX 8 |
1917-1941
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(8 folders) |
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BOX 9 |
1942-1944
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(7 folders) |
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BOX 10 |
1945-1967, undated
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(6 folders) |
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Subject |
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Arnold, Henry Harley, 1961,
undated
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Biographical data on Towers,
1859-1955
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(2 folders) |
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"Chronology of U.S. Naval
Aviation" |
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1911-1914
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(2 folders) |
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BOX 11 |
1915-1934
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(2 folders) |
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Ismay, Hastings L., Lord, undated |
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Kenney, George C., undated |
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King, Ernest J., 1952,
undated
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Mitscher, Marc A., undated |
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Naval aviators |
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Biographical data on associates and
contemporaries of Towers, 1905-1969
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(3 folders) |
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Photocopies of correspondence |
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1913
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BOX 12 |
1914
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(2 folders) |
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Pilot's licenses, uniforms, safety apparatus,
insignias, 1911-1963
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Statement on Shenandoah disaster, personal letters and clippings,
1924-1930
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(2 folders) |
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Transatlantic flight of 1919,
1919-1925
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(2 folders) |
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BOX 13 |
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.,
1845-1908
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BOX 13-14 |
Miscellany, 1878-1989
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Aviation logs, family photographs, reports, essays, correspondence, scrapbooks,
and other items arranged alphabetically by type of material and either
chronologically or alphabetically therein. |
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BOX 13 |
Aviation logs |
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Curtiss planes,
1911-1914
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Wright planes,
1911-1913
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Blueprint of Rodman Wanamaker Trans-Atlantic
flying boat, 1914
See Oversize
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Blueprints of flying boats, 1914
See Oversize
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Currency, German and Russian, 1909,
1917-1923
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Curtiss, Glenn H., biographical sketch,
1878-1913
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Genealogy, undated |
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Institute of War and Peace Studies, New York,
N.Y., 1952-1954, undated
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"Lt. T. G. Ellyson and the First Navy Wings," by
Elretta Sudsbury, undated |
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Photographs, 1889-1909, 1938-1965,
undated
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Register of visitors to the commander in chief,
United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, 1945-1946
See Oversize
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BOX 14 |
Reynolds, Clark G., correspondence regarding
Towers biography, 1979-1989, undated
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(2 folders) |
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Scrapbooks |
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Autographs of visitors to the Towers home in
Hawaii, 1946, undated
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Christening of the aircraft carrier Roosevelt by Pierrette Anne Towers,
1942-1945
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Dedication of Towers Field at the United
States Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla., 1960, Oct.
15
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Newspaper clippings on Towers's career,
1912-1951
See Oversize
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Towers, Pierrette Anne, 1939-1943,
1954-1987, undated
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Transatlantic flight
(1919)
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Navigation charts, 1919
See Oversize
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Reports, 1914-1919
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Scrapbook
See Oversize
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United States Fleet Umpire Instructions,
1932
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BOX 15 |
Addition, 1830-1900
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Photocopies of a travel journal, a typewritten transcript of a diary, and of a
typescript of Civil War reminiscences. |
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Arranged alphabetically by name of writer and then by type of material and
chronologically therein. |
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BOX 15 |
Norton, Reuben S. |
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Diary, 1861-1865,
1888-1895
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Travel journal, 1830
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Towers, William M., reminiscences of the Civil
War, 1900
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BOX OV 1-OV 4 |
Oversize, 1912-1951
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Blueprints, charts, registers, and scrapbooks. |
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Organized and described according to the series, folders, and boxes from which the
items were removed. |
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BOX OV 1 |
Miscellany |
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Blueprint of Rodman Wanamaker
Trans-Atlantic Flying Boat, 1914 (Container 13) |
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Blueprints of flying boats,
1914 (Container 13) |
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Register of visitors to the
commander in chief, United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas,
1945-1946 (Container 13) |
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BOX OV 2* |
Scrapbooks |
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*These scrapbooks are
extremely
fragile and should be served with care. |
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Newspaper clippings on
Towers's career |
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1912-1951 (Container
14) |
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1939-1942 (Container
14) |
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BOX OV 3 |
Transatlantic flight,
1919
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