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Brochure containing six advertisements for Lear Avia and Lear, Incorporated products, circa 1944. The ads describe the wartime utility of electric motors and actuators, and ask potential customers for ideas on how the products can be similarly useful…

Photograph of employees working at desks and drafting tables at a Lear facility, Vandalia, Ohio, circa 1940-1941.Inscription on verso: "1940-41. Vandalia. Property of Al Wort[?]au."

Photograph of Sydney Nesbitt (left) presenting a Learadio Model APR-A portable receiver to Katherine Rawls Thompson, winner of the Alcazar Trophy Race, Miami, Florida, January 1941. An unidentified U.S. Marine Corps serviceman stands in the…

Photograph of a Learmatic navigator, circa 1940s.Inscription: "Learmatic navigator combining directional gyro with adjustable [illegible] and automatic and/or manual loop [rotator?]."

Photograph of an aircraft instrument panel equipped with a Lear, Incorporated VHF receiver and orienter, circa 1940s.Inscription on verso: "Lear Avionics installation late 30's - early 40's."Stamped on verso: "Please return to: Lear Archive, [address…

Photograph of a Douglas DC-3 instrument panel with a Learadio ADF 8 automatic direction finder, circa 1940s. The direction finder and two gauges are circled and numbered. Inscription on verso: "Copy of instrument panel (Chicago and [illegible]…

Photograph of the assembly line at a Lear Avia facility, Vandalia, Ohio, circa 1940. Male and female employees work on device components at long work tables.Inscription: "Lear Avia Vandalia factory. 1940."Inscription on verso: "Assembly. Handwriting…

Photograph of the assembly line at a Lear Avia facility, Vandalia, Ohio, circa 1940. Male and female employees work on device components at long work tables.Inscription on verso: "Assembly."

Photograph of the assembly line at a Lear Avia facility, Vandalia, Ohio, circa 1940. Male and female employees work on device components at long work tables.Inscription: "Lear Avia assbly [assembly] line -- 1940. Vandalia."Inscription on verso: "View…

Photograph of employees working in the model shop at a Lear Avia facility, Vandalia, Ohio, circa 1940.Inscription: "Vandalia. 1940 Eng. Dept. model shop."Inscription on verso: "Archives. Note written in WPL hand."