Box 19
Container
Contains 12 Collections and/or Records:
Day Planners, Notebooks, Pilot Logs, and Flight Records, 1930 - 1990
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3
Scope and Contents
Included are Johnson's United States Army, Air Corps, pilot's books (1930-1936) which include Johnson's grades from The Air Corps Advanced Flying School and application for extended active duty with a tactical unit of the Air Corps, along with pay and expense vouchers. There
are several notebooks which contain Johnson's engineering designs and notations, along with a 1942 pilot's training log from United Air Lines, and day planners, circa 1960s-1980s.
Dates:
1930 - 1990
Notebook, 1954
Item — Box: 19, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 10
Scope and Contents
(4" x 6 ¼" includes various notations, cover off, but 1954 appears in book.)
Dates:
1954
Bound notebook, 1958 - 1968
Item — Box: 19, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 11
Scope and Contents
(5" x 7 ¾" includes engineering designs by Johnson with notations on the design ideas.)
Dates:
1958 - 1968
Day planner, spiral bound notebook, 1960
Item — Box: 19, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 12
Scope and Contents
(5 ½" x 8 ¼")
Dates:
1960
Day planner, bound notebook, 1966
Item — Box: 19, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 13
Scope and Contents
(2 ¾" x 4")
Dates:
1966
Spiral bound notebook, 1967 - 1969
Item — Box: 19, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 14
Scope and Contents
(6" x 9" includes stock and life insurance information)
Dates:
1967 - 1969
Day planner, bound notebook, 1967
Item — Box: 19, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 15
Scope and Contents
(2 ¾" x 4")
Dates:
1967
Day planner, spiral bound notebook, 1971
File — Box: 19, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 16
Scope and Contents
(5 ½" x 8 ¼")
Dates:
1971
Day planner, bound notebook, 1974
Item — Box: 19, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 17
Scope and Contents
(3 ½" x 5 ¾", three, one labeled "telephone calls and aerial applicators")
Dates:
1974
Day planners (two), bound notebooks, 1975
File — Box: 19, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 18
Scope and Contents
(3 ½" x 5 ¾" and 7" x 9")
Dates:
1975
Day planner, spiral bound notebooks, 1975
File — Box: 19, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 19
Scope and Contents
(5 ¼" x 8", two notebooks)
Dates:
1975
Ralph S. Johnson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 25
Scope and Contents
The Ralph S. Johnson papers document the pioneering aviation career of Ralph S. Johnson. Included among the papers are aeronautical engineering drawings done by Johnson, along with articles and papers authored by him. The newspaper clippings, awards, and honorary Doctorate of Engineering from Purdue University focus on the latter part of his career, as he was being recognized as an aviation pioneer. The biographical information was often collected and written by the authors, as a...
Dates:
1924 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1947