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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

Day planner, bound notebook, 1966

 Item — Box: 19, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 13

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

Day planner, spiral bound notebook, 1971

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 16

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

Day planner, spiral bound notebooks, 1975

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSA 25, Series 3, Item 19

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