Photograph of Gordon Mandell holding a model rocket at the Sixth National Association of Rocketry Annual Meet (NARAM-6), Wallops Island, Virginia, 1964.
Photograph (reproduction) of the first flight of the Wright Flyer, North Carolina, December 17, 1903. Orville Wright at controls, Wilbur Wright on ground. Includes a clipping glued to verso about the importance of gasoline to the aviation industry.
Photomechanical prints of the Essex-class USS Essex (CV-9) and Wasp-class USS Essex (LHD-2), circa 1990s. Caption: "1942 / USS Essex CV/CVA/CVS-9 / 'The oldest and the boldest / The 50th anniversary / 1992 / USS Essex LHD-2 / 'The tradition…
Photograph of the Douglas DC-5 "Rover" aircraft (prototype DC-5, Douglas serial 411), signed by photographer L. Kronquist, circa 1940s. Includes a handwritten note below the image addressed to Mr. and Mrs. William E. Boeing, signed by Donald Douglas.
Photograph of a Curtiss Fledgling (Model 51) aircraft, piloted by Richard Llewellyn Roger Atcherley, flying low over the field at the National Air Races, Cleveland, Ohio, 1931.Caption on adjacent album page: "Hopping, skipping and jumping around the…
Photomechanical print of British servicemen in a life raft, circa 1940s. The caption describes the raft as a "life-saving apparatus" carried by airships and notes that the photo was taken at the RAF exhibition at Grafton Galleries.Part of a…
Photograph of a man and a boy readying a model rocket for launch at the Third National Association of Rocketry Annual Meet (NARAM-3), Denver, Colorado, 1961.
Photomechanical print of astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise and an unidentified U.S. Navy officer on board the USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2), April 17, 1970.
Photomechanical print of astronauts Fred W. Haise, James A. Lovell, and John L. Swigert disembarking from Helicopter 66, a U.S. Navy Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King helicopter of HS-4 (Anti-submarine Squadron 4), aboard the USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2), April 17,…