Film footage of scenes in China, circa 1930s. The footage is comprised of short clips filmed during pilot Julius A. Barr's time in China. Specific locations in the footage are unidentified. Scenes include city streets, cargo being unloaded from…
Film footage of scenes in and around Guling, China, circa 1930s. The footage is comprised of short clips filmed during pilot Julius A. Barr's time in China. Scenes include a sign reading "No washing on the road permitted," panning shots of buildings…
Postcard of a Douglas DC-3 aircraft parked at Harrisburg Airport, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, circa 1940s.Caption: "Harrisburg Airport. Harrisburg, PA. 12680."
Color drawing (photomechanical print) of an aerial view of Lower Manhattan as seen from an American Airlines airliner, circa 1940. Art by Ivan Dmitri, produced by American Airlines.
Photograph of a Boeing Model 247D aircraft taking off, Shanghai, China, December 16, 1934. Inscription: "First take off of Boeing 247-D. Photo by Randall Gould. Shanghai. Dec. 16, 1934."Part of a photograph album related to Julius A. Barr's personal…
Photograph of several Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft and a Learadio Beech B17L Staggerwing aircraft (tail number NC 15405) at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., circa 1938.Inscription on verso: "Douglas Army transport ships and Learadio Beechcraft.…
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.
Promotional film for Lear, Incorporated, produced by Norman Wright Productions (Hollywood, California) and narrated by Bob Cummings, circa 1960s. The footage opens with a dramatization of an astronaut piloting a futuristic spacecraft on a deep-space…
Film footage of a Learstar (registration number N16L) and Lockheed L-1888 Electra, circa 1950s. The footage opens with the Learstar being towed into a hangar and William P. Lear boarding the airplane. The next several scenes feature Lear and an…
Items from Box 201, Folder 4 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, circa 1972-1974. Contains three technical illustrations for the Learjet Superwing.