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

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.
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