A. Hildebrandt papers, 1826-1943

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BOX 1	Accidents
		Airplanes, accident at Schleiz
		Airships
			Dixmude (German)
			Nobile, Umberto, tragedy of Italia (Italian airship) on an expedition to the North Pole
				I) Until 30 June 1928
BOX 2				II) From 1 July 1928 until 1 Jan. 1929
			R 101 (British), its fall on 5 Oct. 1930 (as told in newspaper clippings)
		Balloons
BOX 3		General
			1926 (organized first according to commercial, military and private; then according to country)
			General observations; then according to country, 1927-1928
BOX 4	Aerodynamics
		Periodical articles
		Reprints
		Special articles
		Work of special institutes
BOX 5	Africa (including Hildebrandt's correspondence to Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg)
	Airlines
		Advertisements
BOX 6		Luft Hansa
		Non-German
BOX 7	Air mail
	Air raid protection
	Aircraft industry
		Specific factories
			BFW-Bavarian Airplane Works
			BMW-Bavarian Motor Works
			Dietrich-Gobiet Airplane Works
			Dornier
			Focke-Wulf
			Gustav Otto Works
			Hannover Wagon Works
BOX 8			Heinkel
			Junkers I and II and Junkers private
BOX 9			Rhine Aero Works GMBH Dusseldorf-Ober Rassel
			Rohrbach
			Rumpler Works
			Non-German
		Catalogues of industries from A-H
		Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America
		Articles on the management of industry
BOX 10		General articles
		Prager Press
BOX 11	Airports
		Specific airports
			Berlin-Tempelhof
			Essen-Mulheim
			Hamburg
		Observatories
			Rostock
			Urkinnden
BOX 12		Non-German
		Clubs
			Berlin-Johannisthal
			Flug und Hafen
		General
			1926
BOX 13			1927-1928
			All years
BOX 14	Airships
		Specific
			RK27 Airship
			LZ 127
				Important articles
				Until Aug. 1928
				From Sept. 1928 on
				1929
BOX 15				From 1930 on, important articles
				ZR III
			Zeppelins
				30 July 1924-30 Oct. 1924
				1 Nov. 1924-30 Dec. 1925
BOX 16				3 Jan. 1927-1929
				Jan. 1930 on
				General
		Systems
			Boernier system-ocean crossing airships
			Description of the airship system LEPS
		Zeppelin, Graf Ferdinand von
			Zeppelin personally
			Graf Zeppelin and his gains from air ship travel
BOX 17		Periodicals
			Hildebrandt articles on Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin
			Moedebeck's Handbuch der Luftshiffahrt
			Zeitschrift fur Luftschiffahrt
			Zeppelin airships in Frankfurter Zeitung (Dr. Hugo Eckener)
			Newspaper clippings
		General
			Airship or airplane
			World airship travel
BOX 18			Zeppelin-Eckener charity
			Pictures
			Statistics
			General
	America, 1923-1924
BOX 19	Altitude flying
		Specific
			Rubber balloons
			Research
		General
			Until 1928
			1929-1934
			1933-1935
			Articles
BOX 20	Aviators
		Specific
			Byrd, Richard E.
			Chamberlain, Clarence
			Euler, August, and Hans Grade
			Fieseler, Gerhard, and Marcel Doret duel on 23 Oct. 1927
BOX 21			Köhl, Hermann, ocean flight
			Könnecke, Otto, ocean Asia flight
			Lilienthal, Ottto
			Lindbergh, Charles
BOX 22			Mittelholzer, Walter-Gouzy, Rene, Africa flight, 1926
			Nungesser, Charles Eugène Jules Marie, and Francois Coli
			De Pinedo, Francesco
			Dumont, Santos
		General
			Air captains
			Officers and engineers
			Personal histories
			Prewar pilots
			Pictures
			General
BOX 23	Awards
	Balloons
		Air currents on balloons
		History including particular flights
		Materials
		Meteorological
		Military
		Passengers: de'Argenson and Montgolfier
		Periodicals: Der Freiballoon
BOX 24	Races
		Gordon Bennett Cup
			1908
			1907-1912
			1927
			General
BOX 25		Types
			Barrage balloons
			Fixed balloons
			Free balloons
			Hot air balloons
				Berlin's
				Brunner's
				Marek-Emma system
BOX 26				Hildebrandt's articles on hot air balloons
				Newspaper clippings and periodicals
		Postcards (mostly comic)
BOX 27	Bibliography
		Book reviews
		General
	Budges
	Charity, Luftfahrerspende
	Control, automatic
BOX 28	Design
		Specific
			Avia
			BMW
			Boerner
			Budig airplane
			Dornier
			Focke-Wulf
			Junkers
		Airplane spotting
		Altitude planes
		Czechoslovakian military planes
		Non-German
BOX 29		Sport planes
		General
			Blueprints
			Pictures
			General
		Education and propaganda
BOX 30	Engines
		Airplane
			Specific
				Airship and balloon engines
				BMW airplane engines
				German airplane engines
				Non-German airplane engines
			Periodicals
				Illustrierte Motor Zeitung
				Luftfahrt Rundschau, periodical for aviation technique and airship flight, 1930
				Technical part of the reports for air travel, 1921
			Accessories and parts
			Propellers
		Non-airplane
BOX 31	Exhibitions
		Specific
			Aero-Salon, Paris, France
				1926
				1930
			Airships, Dusseldorf, 1925-1926
			Exhibitions for charity, Dusseldorf, 1926
			ILA (Internationale Luft-und Raumfahrtausstellung), Berlin, 1928
BOX 32			Ghent, Belgium, 1913
			Oldenburg, 1927
			Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1927
		General
		Dec. 1911-Nov. 1913
		1924
		Undated
BOX 33	Explorations
	Flight of animals
	Fuel
	Gliders
		Ursinus
		Good articles on gliding
		General
	Goering, Hermann
BOX 34	Hangars
	History
		Specific
			Balloons
			Gliders
		General
			Early French periodicals
			General history of aviation in America (Wright's Scientific American, 1890, etc.)
			General history of aviation in Germany
			History of flying from Icarus to 1904
BOX 35			History of flying from the Middle Ages to 1910
			History of flying (alphabetical from M to Z)
			Newspapers of the nineteenth century, American and English
			Humor and poetry
				About locks and keys
				Folk songs about Zeppelins
				Humor and caricatures
				Nonsense in German newspapers
				Rotschenrenther, About Winged Wheels and Eagle Wings
				General
BOX 36	Indexes
	Instruments
		Specific
			Compass
			Lights
			Radio
			Sound waves
			General radio
		General
			Measuring instruments
			General
BOX 37	Insurance
		Specific
			Balloons in Denmark
			Kasko case
			Nopitsch, Heinrich, in Würzburg
		General
			Accident damage
			Iduna Zeitung
	International relations
		Commissions
			Comité juridique international de l'aviation
			International Commission for Scientific Airship Travel (2 pieces)
			International Commission's Observations, 1903 (4 vols.)
BOX 38			Permanent International Commission for Aviation
		Congresses
			First International Congress for Aerial Security
			International Aeronautical Federation Conference in Zurich, Switzerland, 1911
			International Commission for Aerial Navigation
		General
			Freedom of the air
			Scientific
			General articles
			General conferences
BOX 39	Inventions and patents
		French
		German
			Patentschrifte
			General
			Kites
			Laws
		Government
			Air Board, 1926
			Air mail traffic
			Air Ministry (budget 1928)
			Air Ministry (general I and II)
BOX 40			Bulletin for the Prussian Administration of the Interior
			Reichstag meetings
			Secretary of state for air, Erhard Milch
			Swiss Confederation's Air Board
		Law
			Case of Arthur Miller, accused of corruption
			German lawyers' paper
			Reich's Bulletin of Laws
		General
			By state
BOX 41			General I and II
	Literature
	Locomotives
BOX 42	Maps and charts
		Russia
		Strassburg and environs
		Illustrations
			Chart paper
			Photogrammetry
BOX 43			Route of the sea planes, 1926
		Writings
			Articles about maps
			Cartographic clubs
			Correspondence about maps
			Dr. Peuker
			Zeppelin, Grad Ferdinand von, urges the importance of maps, and miscellany
BOX 44	Materials
	Medicine
		Dreams and flying
		General
	Meteorology
		Specific
			Lindenburg
				Observatory
				Temperature over Lindenburg (chart)
BOX 45				German Flying Weather Service (I and II)
				Royal Russian Academy of Scientists
			Articles
				Radiation in the stratosphere I and II
BOX 46				Sky
				Troposphere and stratosphere
			Periodicals
				Annals of Hydrography and Maritime Meteorological
				German Meteorological Yearbook
				Meteorologishe Zeitschrift
				Das Wetter
			General
				Non-German articles
BOX 47				Scientific German articles
				General
BOX 48	Military
		Specific
			Air force
			Prussian airship troops
			Zeppelin airships in the war
		Periodicals
			Krieger Zeitung
			Memories of the war, 1914
			Military magazines, general
		General
			History
			Non-German articles
BOX 49			Various things about the war (1914-1918) collected by Hildebrandt
			General I and II
	Models
	Navigation
BOX 50	Newspapers
		Specific
			Dingler's Polytechnisches journal, 1826-1859
			Dusseldorfer Stadtanzeiger
			Frankfurter Zeitung
			Kölnische Zeitung
				1923
				1924
BOX 51				1930
				1931
			Königsberger Hartungsche Zeitung, 1925
			La Plata (Argentina)
				Aug.-Sept. 1924
				1 Jan.-24 Mar. 1925
BOX 52			Preussische Zeitung
			Volkischer Beobachter, 1933-1936
		Collections of clippings from various newspapers
			1908-1909
			1928-1929
			General
BOX 53			1907
BOX 54	Personal
		Hildebrandt's writings
			Articles
				Airship Flight
				Aviation (1908-1909)
				Luftfahrt Rundschau, 1911-1912
				Weser Zeitung
BOX 55		Articles in newspapers by and about Hildebrandt
			1885-1907
			1908-1910
BOX 56			1911-1934
			1935-1937
BOX 57		Articles by Hildebrandt
BOX 58		Articles by and about Hildebrandt in the newspapers, 1938-1939
		Lectures
			1911
			Celebration speech
			Club
			General (including Officers Institute lecture on balloons) and advertisements
		Correspondence
			Business, Albatross Works
			Deutscher Luftfahrt Verband
				Confidential
BOX 59				Until Oct. 1910
				1910-1911
				1911
				1912
				1922
				1925
BOX 60			Ring freier Luftfahrtsachverstandiger (Circle of free aviation experts)
			Societies, regarding lectures Hildebrandt should give
			Government
				Air Traffic Ministry
				Legal advisor for aviation
				Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
			Periodicals and publishers
				Brockhaus
				Exchange "Luftflette" for foreign magazines Kölnische Zeitung
					General, 1928-1929
					Rossman
BOX 61				Königersberger Allgemeine Zeitung
				Lokal Anzeiger
				Sonntag Morgen-Stuart
				Publishers I and II
			General
				Boerner, Arno
				Frauds
				International Aeronautical Federation, 1911-1914
				Lufthansa
				St. Andreasberger's Flying Week
BOX 62				World exhibition in Ghent, Belgium, 1913
			Personal
				1910-1911
				1920-1925 See Container 63, 1925-1928
				1927-1928
				Alexander, Patrick Young
				Americans: U.S. War Department, aviation clubs, etc., 1900-1915
				Chanute, Octave, including letter of introduction to Wilbur Wright for Hildebrandt
				Charities
				Damm, Ernst A., 1927
BOX 63				1920-1928
BOX 64				Feldhaus, Gilbert;, Sauer, Otto; etc.
				Ravenstein, Hans
				Royalty (Albert, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Gluckernurg)
				Scheimpflug, Karl
				Siegert, Wilhelm
				Zeppelin, Grad Ferdinand von, photostats of letters to Hildebrandt
				Miscellaneous I-II
BOX 65				Miscellaneous III-V
BOX 66		Miscellany
			America, album with mementos and correspondence, including with Octave Chanute, 1906-1909
			Autobiography of early life
			Hildebrandt's World War I diary, photographs and souvenir
			Flag dropped from Zeppelin
			Flyers Reserve Division 4 (pictures)
			Jubilee (fifty years) for Hildebrandt as an aviator, 12 May 1943
BOX 67			Lists of flyers
	Locks, keys, and coats of arms
		Locks and Keys and the Locksmith's Trade by Hildebrandt and Ernst A. Damm
			Manuscripts I-III
		Linguistic studies
			Of the words: locks, etc.
BOX 68			Of the words: chamberlain
		History
			Ancient history
			Burglary in the times of the old Greeks and Romans
		Bibliography
		Material for citing for an article about locks
		Pictures
		Coats of arms
		Explanations and pictures
		Stereotype plates I-V
		Stereotype plates I-V
BOX 69	Personal
		Luftflotte, 1910-1911, under editorship of Hildebrandt
		Possessions and photographs
		Postcard album
		Review of Hildebrandt's book Vom Flugahnen to Altitude Flying (From Presentiments of flight to Altitude Flying)
		Roeloff, W. M., speech
		Pictures, general
BOX 70	Photography
	Records
	Religion and superstitions
		Patron saints
		Superstitions
	Rotor planes
		Manuscript on Flettner-Rotor planes
		General
	Safety equipment, parachutes
BOX 71	Schools
		Problems of education and schools
		Types of schools
	Societies
		Specific
			Aero clubs
BOX 72			Les aeronautes
			Akademische Fliegerschaft
BOX 73			Berliner Verein fűr Luftshiffahrt
			Bundes Deutscher Flieger
			Deutscher Luftfaht Verband
				I, Part 1
BOX 74				I, Part 2-II
BOX 75			Deutscher Verein zur Forderung der Luftschiffahrt
			Lilienthal Gesellschaft
			Oberheinischer Verin fűr Luftshiffahrt
			Rheinische-Westfalische Fluggellschaft
			Vereins einemaliger Kameraden der Luftschiffer Truppen
			Vereins Flugmachine
			Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft fűr Luftfahrt I
BOX 76			Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft fűr Luftfahrt II
		Types
			British clubs except Aero Club
			Italian clubs
			French
			German club, scientific
BOX 77			German clubs, general
			General I and II, including Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Gesellschaft
	Speed
		Speed and range
BOX 78		General
	Sport
		Races
			Germany
				Gliding
					Coastal gliding competitions
						1923
						1923-1925
						1924
						1927 (Rossitten)
					Rhon Gliding Competition
						1924
						1925
						1926
BOX 79						1927
						1928
						1930
						1931
					St. Andreasberger Gliding Competition
				Powered flying
					Airman's Day
						1925 (June 11-16)
						1926
						1927
						1928
					Berlin Flying Week, 1909
BOX 80					D.L.V. Reliability Flight
					Flying Day at Goslar, 1927
					Flying days
						1926
						1927-1928
					German round-trip flight, 1925
BOX 81					German Seaflight Competition, 1926 (I and II)
					Rhine Flying Competition (I and II)
					Rhineland Liberation Flight, 1930, and D.L.V.
					Reliability flight
					Saxon flight, 1927
BOX 82					South German flight, 1926
			Italy
				Coppa d'Italia
				La Gazetta dello Sport
			International
				Air meet, Zurich, Switzerland, 1927
				European Return Trip Race, 1929
					List of participating airplanes and candidates
BOX 83					Newspaper write-ups
				International Flying Competition in Munich, Sept. 1925
			Schneider Trophy
				1927
				1929-1931
			General races
				Races, 1912
				1924 (world circling)
BOX 84				1925
				1928-1930
			Competition notices
			Periodicals about sports
				Flugsport sea flight competitions
				Der Sportflieger, 1926-1929
BOX 85				General articles, newspaper write-ups
BOX 86			General articles
				German air sports, 1930
				Sport and the German Air Ministry, 1927
				Youth and flying for sport
			Convocations of various flying celebrations
			Sport Press Club
			General
BOX 87	Terminology
		Airplane names
		Luftwaffe technical dictionary
		General
	Test flights
BOX 88	Transportation
		Management
			Freight
BOX 89			Timetables (I and II)
BOX 90			Special flights
				Flights over the ocean in Junkers, 1927
				Flights, 1914, peaceful
BOX 91				Flights, particular
		Articles
			Air, the ideal medium for travel
			Dusseldorf's place in air traffic
			Transportation in Krefeld
			French articles
			General German articles
		Periodicals
			Air travel until 1928 described in newspaper clippings
			Transportation, non-German, 1927-1928, clippings
BOX 92			General periodicals
			Ulderup's (very confidential) lecture about air travel, 1929
BOX 93-96	Miscellaneous
BOX 97	Hildebrandt's index to collection
		A-M
BOX 98		N-Z and supplementary file
BOX OV 99	Oversize certificates and diplomas