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Appreciation plaque given to William P. Lear by the National Intercollegiate Flying Association, May 1973. Two blue and silver aluminum plates are affixed to wood base. The large top plate depicts a partial side view of a bird's head with beak.Top…

Entrepreneur of the Year Award given to Moya Olsen Lear by the Research Directors' Association of Chicago, Inc., March 1982. The engraved metal plate is mounted on a wood base with a circular metal filigree embedded in top left corner.Text: "The…

Entrepreneur of the Year Award given to William P. Lear by the Research Directors' Association of Chicago, May 1970. A paper certificate is mounted under clear acrylic affixed to a wood base. Text: "The Research Directors' Association of Chicago /…

Business card for Harold Crary, Director of Advertising and News Service for United Air Lines, circa 1920s-1930s.

Composite photograph of six images showcasing classes at the Air Corps Technical School's Department of Photography at Chanute Field, Illinois, circa 1936. The classes featured are Optics, Chemistry, Ground Photography, Printing, Copying, and Camera…

Leave pass for U.S. Navy serviceman C. E. Roy, 6th Regiment, U.S. Naval Training Station Great Lakes, Illinois, April 24, 1918.Part of a photograph album related to C. E. Roy's service with the U.S. Navy at Key West Naval Air Station, Florida, circa…

Film footage of aircraft, aerial views, and travel scenes, circa 1940s-1950s. The footage contains several segments filmed at unidentified airfields showing various aircraft, mostly commercial airliners, parked, taxiing, and taking off. Airline…

Film footage taken during two American Airlines flights, one to Washington, D.C. and one to Chicago (Illinois), circa 1940s. Most of the footage is of the Washington, D.C. trip. The footage begins with shots of Edward Wood, the Earl of Halifax,…

Loose scrapbook page containing a photograph of the barracks at Belleville Aviation Field (now Scott Air Force Base), Illinois, circa 1917-1918.Inscription: "Interior of barracks at Belleville."

Photograph of Standard J-1 aircraft at Belleville Aviation Field (now Scott Air Force Base) in Illinois, circa 1917-1918.Inscription on verso: "Two Standard machines at Belleville Aviation Field."