Air pilots

Scope and Contents This collection includes a handwritten letter from Karl John Schoen to his brother, Joe Schoen, on October 28 regarding family news and flying against the German aviators, biographical information about Karl Schoen, several newspaper clippings about Karl Schoen and other American aviators during World War I, and a CD-ROM with a digital copy of a photograph of Effie May Schoen at Karl Schoen's gravesite in France as well as a photocopied version of the photograph.

Scope and Contents This collection includes 6 black-and-white photographs taken at or near Northport on Long Island, New York on August 3, 1918 and circa 1918 depicting airplanes, military pilots, and other personnel during World War I. The photographs belonged to an unidentified soldier, probably a pilot stationed at Brindley Field in Commack based on the descriptions he wrote on the back of the photographs.The photographs were originally arranged in a frame that once hung on a wall before it was...

Scope and Contents This collection includes 10 black-and-white panoramic photographs in the United States ranging from 1906 to 1942 regarding multiple military units from the United States Army and National Guard, including a 1906 Fort Benjamin Harrison encampment in Indianapolis; Battery C, 325th Field Artillery at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky (November 1917); Headquarters Company, 137th Field Artillery at Camp Shelby, Mississippi (March 7, 1918); 2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment, Indiana Liberty Guard (September...