A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Text from back of image: 'Lieut. Walter Hinton is credited with keeping up the spirit of his two com-associates while they were lost in the Canadian wilderness for several days after landing from their balloon. He wrote a long letter to his wife in...
Invoice for clothing issued to Company B (Lammot du Pont's company), 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry while serving at Fort Delaware. The invoice is signed by William Preston, regimental quartermaster of the 5th Delaware.
Correspondence from wife to husband regarding every day life while he is away at war. Sophie mentions Captain Davis, Henry Winter Davis, Mrs. Welsh, General Anderson, and Clementina and Harriet Smith. Parts of the letter are written in French....
Officers of the 5th U.S. Artillery and the 12th U.S. Infantry at Fort Hamilton New York. They are identified as follows: front row (L to R); Major Bruen (?) 12th Inf., Col. Martin Burke, and Capt. Putman (?) 12th Inf. Back row (L to R); Lt....
Seattle WA- Women workers at the Boeing Airplane Company plant here now learn while right on the job. Take the case of Arleen Stover, 19, who is applying for a war job at the company's downtown employment office. Miss Stover is show here giving the...
These fortunate passengers have before them a smoother, over-weather flight o their destination at speeds of over 300 miles an hour heretofore achieved only by the swiftest military or experimental racing planes. In addition to performance that...
These fortunate passengers have before them a smoother, over-weather flight o their destination at speeds of over 300 miles an hour heretofore achieved only by the swiftest military or experimental racing planes. In addition to performance that...
Text from back of image: 'Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, French Paris-to-New York fliers, returned to Curtiss Airport, Sept. 9th, from their official reception in Washington, D.C. While en-route they dropped a wreath of dahlias, the gift of...
Text from back of image: "While on a flight for a Movietone stunt, the U.S. Army dirigible, TC-5, lost her rudder in wind storm while maneuvering near Williamsburg, Va. and crashed in cornfield. Capt. C. Palmer Clarke, in command, Capt. W.J. Flood,...
Text from back of image: "Major S. M. Strong, flight surgeon of the Medical Corps attached to Mitchel Field at Garden City L.I., had a remarkable experience a few days ago while on a flight to test the recording barograph and get the 'ceiling' of...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows - just as contact was established over Mitchel Field, Long Island where tests were made. Contact with another plane while flying at a speed of 65 miles an hour was made eight times over Mitchel Field, Long...
Text from back of image: "Two hundred gallons of gasoline were transferred to the army tri-motored Fokker plane 'Question Mark,' 2500 feet above Dallas, TX, Dec. 20. The supply ship, a Douglass biplane, dropped a hose end while flying directly...
Text from back of photo: George E. Russell, aerial photographer of San Francisco, and Bob Hancock, wellknown pilot, landed on what is believed to be the highest landing field in the world when they made a trip recently and landed in the Templeman...
Table of Contents: Pampering the powerful pods; Getting a line on heat secrets; Suiting up the rangers; Gold mining at homestake; Fabrics with a flair for fashion; The long journey of the air spring; Cocoons for the moon men; Parts pressed while...
Table of Contents: Nitrogen from the air; Bull's Gap cut-off; Stays put while you're putting; Strip coal mining in the Northwest; A Duco color card on wheels; Popular Gladstone; Pyralin, a fountain of new effects in fountain pens; Greater...
