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Letter to Brigadier General James I. Bowers, Adjutant General, from Laura (Lucky) McClellan, June 14, 1955. Requests information about William S. Luckey's service with the New Jersey National Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War. One…

Advertisement card for William S. Luckey's exhibition flight at the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, circa 1913-1915.

Tri-fold postcard advertisement for exhibition aviator William S. Luckey, circa 1913-1915. The front features two photomechanical prints of Curtiss aircraft in flight, likely piloted by Luckey. The verso contains information about Luckey's flying…

Letter to Mrs. Clifford McClellan from Brigadier General James I. Bowers, Office of the Adjutant General, State of New Jersey, June 20, 1942. Forwards records of Luckey's service with New Jersey National Guard and New Jersey National Guard Volunteer…

Discharge certificate issued to William S. Luckey by the New Jersey National Guard, October 29, 1898. Includes military record on verso and a handwritten note listing Luckey's birth and death dates. Two total pages.

Contract between the Renfrew Fair Association and William S. Luckey for exhibition flights, June 1915. One typed page.

Photograph of a crowd watching a Curtiss Model D Headless aircraft, piloted by William S. Luckey, during an air race, Manhattan, New York, October 13, 1913. The typed caption on a duplicate photograph in the collection notes that the race was held to…

Letter to Charles W. Lavers from E. E. Johnston, Director, Compensation and Pension Service, April 19, 1958. States that William S. Luckey has been credited with more than 90 days honorable service in the Spanish War and requests that Luckey's widow,…

Broadside advertisement for the Walkerton Fair, September 1913. Lists William S. Luckey's exhibition flights as a special attraction.

Photographic postcard of a Curtiss aircraft, piloted by Lincoln J. Beachey, in flight over a crowd, circa 1913-1915. Inscription: "Lincoln Beachy [sic]."