Towers, John H. (John Henry) 1885-1955 creator mixed material monographic eng 5,000 15 4 8 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. Open to research. 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 Naval officers Norton, Reuben S. Towers, Pierrette Anne. Towers, William M. mm 93081197 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008.3 Open to research. DLC 930722 20260227111724.0 mm 93081197