Photograph of servicemen Dever and Compton with a wrecked Consolidated PT-1 aircraft (fuselage number 433), May 1927. The inscriptions on the album page note that Julius A. Barr was piloting the aircraft when it crashed.Inscription: "Dever.…
Photograph of a Consolidated PT-1 aircraft (fuselage number 427) crashed upside down in a field, Texas, June 27, 1927. The inscription notes that the aircraft was piloted Julius A. Barr. Inscription on album page: "Views of my second crack up. June…
Photograph of a Consolidated PT-1 aircraft (fuselage number 427) crashed upside down in a field, Texas, June 27, 1927. The inscription notes that the aircraft was piloted Julius A. Barr. Inscription on album page: "Views of my second crack up. June…
Photograph of a Consolidated PT-1 aircraft (fuselage number 427) crashed upside down in a field, Texas, June 27, 1927. The inscription notes that the aircraft was piloted Julius A. Barr. Inscription on album page: "Views of my second crack up. June…
Postcard announcing Julius A. Barr's graduation from flight training at Brooks Field, Texas, August 1927. The postcard features an illustration of an aircraft, a photograph of Barr, and Barr's signature. The verso inscription, written by Barr, gives…
Business card for Boeing pilot Julius A. Barr, circa 1920s-1930s. The text is printed in English on one side and Chinese on the other.English text: "Julius A. Barr / Airplane pilot / Representing Boeing Airplane Co. / United Aircraft Exports Inc."
Business card for pilot Julius A. Barr, circa 1930s. The text is printed in English on one side and Chinese on the other.English text: "Julius A. Barr / Airplane pilot for the Chinese government / Nanking / Ming Ku Kung Airdrome / Phone 21321.
Letter from Julius A. Barr to his parents, written at Brooks Field, Texas, October 4, 1926. Thanks his parents for the package of clothes and discusses life at base. Mentions that Hortense is angry about him joining the Air Service, fearing that he…
Letter from Julius A. Barr to his mother, October 8, 1926. Mentions passing his third advancement check and discusses his flight training. Two handwritten pages.
Letter from Julius A. Barr to his mother, October 26, 1927. Discusses his solo flight in a bomber aircraft and life at base. Also mentions a clipping about commercial aviation sent to him by his mother (not included). Two handwritten pages.