03269cpcaa2200541 a 4500 mm 78022046 DLC 20260227111624.0 cr ||||||||||| 790119|||||||||||| eng mm 78022046 ms 67000606 DLC DLC dacs DLC S lcmd Gatty, Harold, 1903-1957. Harold Gatty papers, 1901-1957. 7,000 items. 43 containers plus 4 oversize. 14 linear feet. Arranged in 9 series. Series 1: Book File; Series 2: Navigation File; Series 3: Ground-Speed and Drift Indicator, 1931-1945; Series 4: Transoceanic flights, 1901-1935; Series 5: Pacific Airline Routes, 1933-1940; Series 6: Printed Matter, 1902-1947; Series 7: Miscellany, 1921-1945; Series 8: Bibliographic File; and Series 9: Oversize. Open to research. Correspondence, writings, research notes, subject files, indexes, bibliographies, clippings, charts, maps, drawings, and other papers relating chiefly to the history of land and nautical navigation. Documents Gatty's investigations of air, water, and land navigation, particularly in Polynesia, the Arctic, and the Antarctic; his development of air routes for the South Seas Commercial Company founded by Gatty and Donald W. Douglas, Pan American Airways Corporation, and other transpacific flights; and Gatty's attempted transpacific flight with Harold Bromley in 1931. Includes drafts of Gatty's books Raft Book: Lore of the Sea & Sky (1943) and Nature Is Your Guide (1958) and a typescript of The Adventures of a Nature Guide by Enos Abijah Mills, published in 1920. Three-dimensional objects including a ground-speed indicator and a drift meter transferred to Smithsonian Institution. Aviator, navigator, naturalist, and inventor. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013013 Bromley, Harold, 1898-1998. Douglas, Donald W. (Donald Wills), 1892-1981. Pan American Airways Corporation. South Seas Commercial Company. Airways Pacific area. Navigation. Navigation Antarctica. Navigation Arctic regions. Navigation Polynesia. Navigation (Aeronautics) Transpacific flights. Aviators. itoamc Inventors. itoamc Naturalists. itoamc Navigators. itoamc Gatty, Harold, 1903-1957. Nature is your guide. 1958. Gatty, Harold, 1903-1957. Raft book: lore of the sea & sky. 1943. Mills, Enos Abijah, 1870-1922. Adventures of a nature guide. 1920. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013013 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013013.3 39878 39878