Air travel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Balloon ascension circular
Collection — Folder S3429
Identifier: S3429
Dates:
1873
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Balloon ascension circular
Frank Pusey collection
Collection — Folder S3126
Identifier: S3126
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters, inter-office memos, a business card, a brochure of introduction of a newly appointed employee, a map of sales districts, photographs, clippings, part of a trade magazine, a good luck card, and place mat with signatures from Frank Pusey in Indianapolis ranging from 1943 to 1967, concerning his employment at the Allison Division of General Motors, the Pure Oil Company in Indianapolis, and E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company Incorporated.
Dates:
1943-1967
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Frank Pusey collection
Indianapolis Aero Club collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3319
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three folders dated from 1933 to 1987 from the Indianapolis Aero Club. The folders contain correspondence, news clippings, and miscellaneous items such as club rosters, postcards, and photographs.
Dates:
1933-1987
Jupiter air mail balloon trip photographs
Collection — Folder SP099
Identifier: SP099
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 3 photographs in Lafayette, Indiana on August 16 or 17, 1859, depicting the air balloon Jupiter in downtown Lafayette waiting to depart on the first official airmail journey.
Dates:
1859/08/16-1859/08/17
United States airmail balloon Jupiter, Lafayette, Indiana clippings and photograph
Collection — Folder OBD044
Identifier: OBD044
Scope and Contents
This collection contains newspaper clippings and photographs mounted to board regarding the flight of the first official air mail service balloon, Jupiter from Lafayette, Indiana dated 1859-1900.
Dates:
circa 1859-1900
William Thumma, Indiana aviation scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: L662
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a scrapbook with index photographs, correspondence, articles, obituaries and newspaper clippings created by William Thumma in the United States, ranging from 1839 to 1993, regarding aviation and aviators in Indiana. The scrapbook is organized by city: Anderson, Auburn, Brazil, Elwood, Evansville, Farmland, Fort Wayne, Frankfort, Gary, Huntingburg, Huntington, Indianapolis, Kokomo, Lafayette, Mentone, Memphis, Muncie, Portland, Richmond, South Bend, Terre Haute,...
Dates:
1839-1993
