Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collections

About this collection

    The Lammot du Pont collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360) and Lammot du Pont Jr. collection of aeronautics are collections of books, manuscripts, prints, drawings and photographs relating to the history of aeronautics from the first balloon flights through the 1940s.
    The collection was first assembled by Lammot du Pont, Jr. (1909-1964), the Assistant Vice President of the Wilmington Trust Company and a former employee of the Fokker Aircraft Corporation.
    This online collection is a selection of publications and images from the collections, which have not been digitized in their entireties. The digitized images photographs primarily depict subjects such as airplanes, balloons and dirigibles, seaplanes, male and female pilots, long-distance and round-the-world flights, airplane crashes, air races, flying instruction, and the Arctic schooner Effie M. Morrissey. Nearly all of the photographs are news service images, many accompanied by original caption information.
    Image: New World's Record for Helicopter. Click to view.

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