circa 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: Kawanishi Takarazuta Before

One undated photograph entitled Kawanishi Takarazuta Before. Depicts an aerial view of Takarazuta before bombing. Other images of Kawanishi include: GLC09595.053, GLC09595.059, GLC09595.060, GLC09595.061, GLC09595.068, GLC09595.094, GLC09595.095, and GLC09595.096.

GLC09595.097

9 August 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: Fukuyama Before 9 August 1945

One undated photograph entitled Fukuyama Before 9 August 1945. Depicts an aerial view of Fukuyama before bombing. Other images of Fukuyama include: GLC09595.103, and GLC09595.104.

GLC09595.098

1-2 August 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: Hachioji After

One undated photograph entitled Hachioji After dated August 1-2, 1945. Depicts an aerial view of Hachioji after bombing. Other images of Hachioji include: GLC09595.100.

GLC09595.099

1 August 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: Hachioji Before 1 August 1945

One undated photograph entitled Hachioji Before 1 August 1945. Depicts an aerial view of Hachioji before bombing. Other images of Hachioji include: GLC09595.099.

GLC09595.100

14 August 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: 14 August 45 Hikari Naval Arsenal

One undated photograph entitled 14 August 45 Hikari Naval Arsenal. Depicts an aerial view of the Hikari Naval Arsenal during bombing. Other images of Hikari include: GLC09595.102, and GLC09595.106.

GLC09595.101

14 August 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: 14 August 45 Hikari Naval Arsenal

One undated photograph entitled 14 August 45 Hikari Naval Arsenal. Depicts an aerial view of the Hikari Naval Arsenal during bombing. The image is similar to GLC09595.101 but from a different angle. Other images of Hikari include: GLC09595.101, and GLC09595.106.

GLC09595.102

8 August 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: Fukuyama Damage

One undated photograph entitled Fukuyama Damage dated August 8, 1945. Depicts an aerial view of Fukuyama after bombing with areas of damaged marked.

GLC09595.103

8 August 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: Fukuyama After

One undated photograph entitled Fukuyama After dated August 8, 1945. Depicts an aerial view of Fukuyama after bombing. A section of the image is outlined in black showing the area that was bombed.

GLC09595.104

14 August 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: 14 August 45 Hikari Naval Arsenal

One undated photograph entitled 14 August 45 Hikari Naval Arsenal. Depicts an aerial view of the Hikari Naval Arsenal during bombing. Other images of Hikari include: GLC09595.101, and GLC09595.102.

GLC09595.106

circa 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: Hiroshima Before

One undated photograph entitled Hiroshima Before. Depicts an aerial view of Hiroshima before bombing.

GLC09595.107

circa 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: [Hiroshima Rivers close up]

One undated photograph. Depicts an aerial view of a city separated by three rivers. The city is possibly Hiroshima before bombing based on a comparison to GLC09595.107.

GLC09595.108

circa 1945

United States Government

Photograph

Title: [Supply drop]

One undated photograph. Depicts an aerial view of packages being dropped out of a plane to a community below. The packages are being carried downwards by parachutes. In the lower left corner of the images the community has spelled out "Drop Here Please."

GLC09595.109

21 June 1945

United States. Navy

Newspaper clipping

Title: [Baka Bomb]

One newspaper clipping sent by Leonard Eugene Graeff to Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff dated June 21, 1945. Clipping features an image of a Japanese Baka Bomb that was found intact on Okinawa. The image is credited as a official U.S. Navy Photograph from the Pacific Fleet.

GLC09611.439.02

18 March 1943

Golding, Ralph V., fl. 1943

Photograph

Title: [Waco CG-4 plane]

One photograph sent by Ralph V. Golding to Paul H. and Margaret Lobik dated March 18, 1943. Photograph features the front of a Waco CG-4 plane the caption on the back of the photo reads, "Notice where the front raises to allow the guy to dive in + out."

GLC09578.023.03

18 March 1943

Golding, Ralph V., fl. 1943

Photograph

Title: [Ralph V. Golding and a Waco CG-4 plane]

One photograph sent by Ralph V. Golding to Paul H. and Margaret Lobik dated March 18, 1943. Photograph features the tail end of a Waco CG-4 with Golding posing next to it. The rear of the photograph reads, "5'6 against the tail of a CG4A (official no.)"

GLC09578.023.04

18 March 1943

Golding, Ralph V., fl. 1943

Photograph

Title: [Cinema Sailplane]

One photograph sent by Ralph V. Golding to Paul H. and Margaret Lobik dated March 18, 1943. Photograph features a Cinema Sailplane in a field. The rear of the photograph reads, "A cinema sail plane- used for our basic glider training (Did you get a Xmas card?)"

GLC09578.023.05

1948

Photograph

Title: Jesse Brown

One photograph of Midshipman Jesse L. Brown, US Navy dated October 1948. Photographed at Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, while serving as a Naval Aviation Cadet. Brown was the first African American to complete Navy flight training. Jesse Brown was a hero fighter pilot and was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and also the first African American naval officer killed in the Korean War.

GLC10110

circa 1940

Betsy Ross Corps.

Poster

Title: Mercy From the Skies

one poster entitled Mercy From The Skies published by the Betsy Ross Corps of licensed women pilots and students circa 1940. Poster is advertising for the Betsy Ross Air Corps, the first of several paramilitary women's aviation organizations that hoped to support the Army Air Corps and assist during times of national emergency. The Corps was founded in 1931 by Opal Kunz, a charter member of the Ninety-Nines organization of women pilots and the first woman to race men in open competition. The Corps had its own uniforms and was divided into nine regions across the country.

GLC10122

circa 1945

United States Government

Photograph album

Title: [Bombing Missions against Japan]

One undated photograph album covers. Consists of two covers and brackets originally holding together 109 photographs.

GLC09595.110

March 1784

Gouvion, Jean Baptiste, 1747-1792

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Informs Knox that the Society of the Cincinnati is "... sure do well in this country, but the news we have from america give me some uneasiness, the american gentlemen who are in paris and not members of the Society are much against it, chiefly Mr. Jay who went the other day so far as to say that if it did take well in the states, he should not care whether the revolution had succeeded or not." Discusses exclusionary policies of the Society. Describes recent developments in hot air ballooning: two days prior, "a gentleman went in the air as far up as four thousand yards..."

GLC02437.02988

circa 1861-1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: View of Professor Thaddeus Lowe and staff inflating reconnaissance balloon

Image shows a group of about five men inflating Lowe's reconnaissance balloon, with a large crowd gathered to watch. The balloon itself is about 1/2 inflated. Imprint on recto "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by M. B. Brady, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia." Graphite inscription on verso "1.25.--." Photographers imprint on verso: "Brady's Album Gallery. No. 423. Professor Lowe inflating Balloon Intrepid To Reconnoiter Battle of Fair Oaks. The Photographs of this series were taken directly from nature, at considerable cost…

GLC05111.02.1345

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: View of soldiers holding ropes attached to a reconnaissance balloon

Image shows approximate twenty-one soldiers holding the ropes attached to a floating balloon. In the background are A-frame tents amid trees, with other figures watching the balloon action. Ink inscription on image "2348." Graphite inscription on verso "Professor Lowe in His Balloon Watching the Battle of Fair Oaks" "2.00--." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H. T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York. Manufacturers of the best Photographic Albums."

GLC05111.02.1346

1917-1982

Southern, Neta Snook, 1896-1991

Header Record

Title: Archive of Neta Snook [Southern] [Decimalized .01- .08]

The archive includes a letter written by Amelia Earhart, two personal diaries, a signed copy of Snook Southern's book "I Taught Amelia to Fly", photographs, airplane blueprints, personal papers.

GLC07243

January 26, 1929

Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

Typed letter signed

Title: to Neta Snook Southern

Typed on "Hearst's International" letterhead. Writing as aviation editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, Earhart reminisces the days when she flew with Snook Southern.

GLC07243.001

1974

Southern, Neta Snook, 1896-1991

Book signed

Title: I Taught Amelia to fly

First edition, published by Vantage Press. Signed copy. Southern's story of her days as an aviation pioneer and teacher of Amelia Earhart.

GLC07243.005