08278cpcaa2201165 4500 mm 79010694 DLC 20260227111653.0 cr ||||||||||| 961212|||||||||||| eng mm 79010694 ms 66001422 DLC dacs DLC DLC S lcmd American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Institute of Aerospace Sciences archives, 1783-1962. 30,000 items. 182 containers plus 83 oversize. 4 microfilm reels. 80 linear feet. Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Biographical Files, 1784-1962; Series 2: Aircraft Company Files; Series 3: Miscellany, 1804-1932; series 4: Scrapbooks, 1783-1955; Series 5: Material Removed from Scrapbooks after Microfilming Institute of Aerospace Sciences Archives; and Series 6: Oversize, 1805-1955. Open to research. Biographical and corporate files, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous materials collected by the institute between 1939 and 1962. Includes correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts of articles and speeches, reports, biographical questionnaires and sketches, genealogical records, financial reports, broadsides, charts, press releases, newspaper clippings, blueprints, cartoons, maps, aeromedical and aeronautical reproductions, airplane specifications, prints, engravings, illustrations, sketches, photographs, memorabilia, printed matter, and other records relating to aviation and aeronautics collected and maintained by the institute prior to its merger with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Items of special interest include Thomas Jefferson's letter concerning the prospects of air flight (1822); Edmund Charles Genet's letters (1826-1827); Walt Whitman's notes on aviation (1850); Victor Hugo's letter sent from Paris by balloon during the siege of the Paris Commune (1871); files of T.S.C. Lowe including correspondence with Joseph Henry, George Gordon Meade, and Edwin McMasters Stanton; a 1904 letter by Theodore Roosevelt to Walter Wellman (1904) concerning a possible flight to the North Pole; a 1917 letter written by Franklin D. Roosevelt pertaining to ballooning; and Charles A. Lindbergh's application for the Orteig Prize awarded to the first person to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. Includes biographical files for Henry Harley Arnold, Thomas S. Baldwin, Louis Blériot, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Clarence D. Chamberlin, Octave Chanute, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Alexander P. de Seversky, James Harold Doolittle, Amelia Earhart, C.G. Grey, Frank Hawks, Henry Allen Hazen, William S. Henson, Maurice Holland, Howard Hughes, John Jeffries, Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, Alexander Klemin, Roy Knabenshue, S.P. Langley, Charles A. Lindbergh, T.S.C. Lowe, Johnny Mack, Glenn L. Martin, James V. Martin, William Mitchell, Auguste Piccard, Wiley Post, Eddie Rickenbacker, Alberto Santos-Dumont, T.O. Selfridge, Igor Ivan Sikorsky, A. Leo Stevens, John Stringfellow, J.T. Trippe, Edward Pearson Warner, Orville Wright, and Wilbur Wright. Files of T.S.C. Lowe include correspondence with Joseph Henry, George Gordon Meade, and Edwin McMasters Stanton. Corporate files are composed primarily of newspaper clippings and printed materials, and include files for many American aircraft corporations. The scrapbooks contain a variety of materials concerning aviation and aeronautical history ranging from balloons and the Zeppelin to the development of the modern military air force and commercial airlines. Includes a set of scrapbooks concerning the Wright brothers. Microfilm edition only of scrapbooks relating to the Wright brothers available, no. 19,312. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics was formed in 1963 by the merger of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences and the American Rocket Society. These records constitute the historical aeronautical archives of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011135 Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950. Baldwin, Thomas S. Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936. Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957. Chamberlin, Clarence D. (Clarence Duncan), 1893-1976. Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910. Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930. De Seversky, Alexander P. (Alexander Procofieff), 1894-1974. Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993. Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937. Genet, Edmond Charles, 1763-1834 Correspondence. Grey, C. G. (Charles Grey), 1875-1953. Hawks, Frank, 1897-1938. Hazen, Henry Allen, 1849-1900. Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Correspondence. Henson, William S. (William Samuel), 1805?-1888. Holland, Maurice, 1891- Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976. Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Correspondence. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Correspondence. Jeffries, John, 1745-1819. Kingsford-Smith, Charles Edward, Sir, 1897-1935. Klemin, Alexander, 1888-1950. Knabenshue, Roy, -1960. Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906. Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974. Lowe, T. S. C. (Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt), 1832-1913. Mack, Johnny, 1881- Martin, Glenn L. (Glenn Luther), 1886-1955. Martin, James V. (James Vernon), 1885-1956. Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872 Correspondence. Mitchell, William, 1879-1936. Post, Wiley, 1898-1935. Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Correspondence. Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 1873-1932. Selfridge, T. O. (Thomas Oliver), 1836-1924. Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972. Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869 Correspondence. Stevens, A. Leo (Albert Leo), 1877-1944. Trippe, J. T. (Juan Terry), 1899-1981. Warner, Edward Pearson, 1894- Wellman, Walter, 1858-1934 Correspondence. Wright, Orville, 1871-1948. Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912. Graf Zeppelin (Airship) Aeronautics. Aeronautics Societies, etc. Aeronautics, Commercial. Aeronautics, Military. Air pilots. Aircraft industry. Astronautics Societies, etc. Astronautics, Military. Ballooning. Balloons. Flight. Transatlantic flights. Arctic regions Aerial exploration. North Pole. Paris (France) History Commune, 1871. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Walt Whitman notes. 1850. Institute of the Aerospace Sciences. Institute of the Aerospace Sciences archives. Archived Web site : Official Web site of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/mrva0012.0003/ Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011135 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011135.3 42113 42113