Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers

The Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers is comprised of approximately 43,000 negatives and 150,000 prints, as well as glass plates, scrapbooks, transparencies, correspondence, writings, and research files and additional audio-visual materials. This collection is significant for its documentation, especially visual, on thousands of types of aircraft produced over the course of the twentieth century. The collection is arranged into six series: I. Photographs, II. Correspondence, III. Manuscripts, IV. Research Files, V. Audiovisual Material and VI. Personal.

Digitized Materials: The glass plate negatives have been digitized from this collection thus far.