03829cpcaa2200661 a 4500 mm 93081197 DLC 20260227111724.0 cr ||||||||||| 930722|||||||||||| eng mm 93081197 DLC DLC DLC dacs R lcmd Towers, John H. (John Henry), 1885-1955. John H. Towers papers, 1830-1989 (bulk 1906-1955). 5,000 items. 15 containers plus 4 oversize. 8 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, writings, speeches, reports, aviation logs, biographical material, clippings, blueprints, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Towers's career in the U.S. Navy and as vice president of Pan American Airways Corporation. Subjects include his advocacy of naval aviation, his service with the Great White Fleet on its round the world voyage (1907-1909), Curtiss-Wright aircraft, the transatlantic flight of 1919, and American aerial operations in the Pacific during World War II. Includes notebooks compiled by Towers's wife, Pierrette Anne, when gathering information for a biography of Towers. Correspondents include Clementine Churchill and Henry James. Also includes reminiscences (1900) of William S. Towers concerning his Civil War service with Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, photocopies of a travel journal (1830) kept by Reuben S. Norton while traveling from Massachusetts to New Orleans, La., and Georgia, and a typewritten transcript of Norton's diary (1861-1895) of life in Rome, Ga., kept primarily during the Civil War. Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Naval officer and pioneer aviator. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008 Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation Collection. Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877. Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977 Correspondence. James, Henry, 1843-1916 Correspondence. United States. Navy Aviation. United States. Navy Cruise, 1907-1909. United States. Navy Officers. Pan American Airways Corporation. Aeronautics, Commercial. Aeronautics, Military. Curtiss-Wright aircraft. Naval aviation. Transatlantic flights. Voyages around the world. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Ocean. Georgia Description and travel. Georgia History Civil War, 1861-1865. Louisiana New Orleans Description and travel. Mississippi Description and travel. Rome (Ga.) History. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. Aviators. itoamc Naval officers. itoamc Norton, Reuben S. Reuben S. Norton papers. Towers, Pierrette Anne. Pierrette Anne Towers papers. Towers, William M. William M. Towers papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008.3 44271 44271