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_2lcmd
100 1 _aTowers, John H.
_q(John Henry),
_d1885-1955.
245 0 0 _aJohn H. Towers papers,
_f1830-1989
_g(bulk 1906-1955).
300 _a5,000
_fitems.
300 _a15
_fcontainers plus
_a4
_foversize.
300 _a8
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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.
520 8 _aAlso 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.
544 _3Some photographs
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545 0 _aNaval officer and pioneer aviator.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008
580 _aForms part of: Naval Historical Foundation Collection.
600 1 0 _aForrest, Nathan Bedford,
_d1821-1877.
600 1 0 _aChurchill, Clementine,
_d1885-1977
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJames, Henry,
_d1843-1916
_vCorrespondence.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNavy
_xAviation.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNavy
_xCruise, 1907-1909.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNavy
_xOfficers.
610 2 0 _aPan American Airways Corporation.
650 0 _aAeronautics, Commercial.
650 0 _aAeronautics, Military.
650 0 _aCurtiss-Wright aircraft.
650 0 _aNaval aviation.
650 0 _aTransatlantic flights.
650 0 _aVoyages around the world.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xAerial operations, American.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xCampaigns
_zPacific Ocean.
651 0 _aGeorgia
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aGeorgia
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aLouisiana
_zNew Orleans
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aMississippi
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aRome (Ga.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
656 7 _aAviators.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aNaval officers.
_2itoamc
700 1 _aNorton, Reuben S.
_tReuben S. Norton papers.
700 1 _aTowers, Pierrette Anne.
_tPierrette Anne Towers papers.
700 1 _aTowers, William M.
_tWilliam M. Towers papers.
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005008.3
999 _c44271
_d44271