Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers
Title
Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers
Description
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.
Date
2008-03-31
Creator
Bowers, Peter M., 1918-2003
Rights Holder
The Museum of Flight Archives
Rights
Permission to publish material from the Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers must be obtained from The Museum of Flight Archives.
Bibliographic Citation
The Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers/The Museum of Flight
Identifier
2008-03-31
Collection Organization
- Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers
- Series I - Photographs, circa 1900s-2003
- Subseries I-C - Glass plates, circa 1900s-1930s
- Subseries I-D - Scrapbooks and Albums
- Album Box 2, Folder: 3 - Dornier photograph album, circa 1920s-1930s
- Album Box 4, Folder: 2 - "Aeronautica d'Italia Gia Aeronautica Ansaldo Aeroplano da Ricognizione SVA 10", circa 1917
- Album Box 4, Folder: 3 - "Aeronautica Ansaldo Avion de Reconaissance A 300 4", circa 1919
- Album Box 4, Folder: 4 - "Avions en Service et Avions Nouveaux", circa 1914-1920
- Album Box 5, Folder: 1-3 - Early Bird Walter Lees Photo Album #3, 1923-1924
- Series I - Photographs, circa 1900s-2003
Collection Items
[Man with pipe]
Photograph of a man with a pipe, circa 1923-1924. Part of a photograph album related to the career of Walter E. Lees and other early aviators, circa 1923-1924.
[Man with pipe]
Photograph of a man with a pipe, circa 1923-1924. Part of a photograph album related to the career of Walter E. Lees and other early aviators, circa 1923-1924.
[Men in flight gear]
Photograph of three men in flight gear, circa 1923-1924. Part of a photograph album related to the career of Walter E. Lees and other early aviators, circa 1923-1924.
[Men in flight gear]
Photograph of two men in flight gear, circa 1923-1924. Part of a photograph album related to the career of Walter E. Lees and other early aviators, circa 1923-1924.
[Men in flight gear]
Photograph of two men in flight gear, circa 1923-1924. Part of a photograph album related to the career of Walter E. Lees and other early aviators, circa 1923-1924.
[Serviceman and man in flight gear]
Photograph of a serviceman and a man in flight gear, circa 1923-1924. An unidentified aircraft is visible behind them.Part of a photograph album related to the career of Walter E. Lees and other early aviators, circa 1923-1924.
[Man putting on flight gear]
Photograph of a man putting on flight gear, circa 1923-1924. Part of a photograph album related to the career of Walter E. Lees and other early aviators, circa 1923-1924.
[Servicemen with unidentified seaplane]
Photograph of U.S. Navy servicemen with an unidentified seaplane, circa 1923-1924.
[Loening OL-1 seaplane]
Photograph of a Loening OL-1 seaplane (tail number A-6880), circa 1923-1924. Part of a photograph album related to the career of Walter E. Lees and other early aviators, circa 1923-1924.
[Loening OL-1 seaplane]
Photograph of a Loening OL-1 seaplane, circa 1923-1924. Part of a photograph album related to the career of Walter E. Lees and other early aviators, circa 1923-1924.