Box 4
Container
Contains 8 Collections and/or Records:
Paul E. Stanley papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 50
Scope and Contents
The Paul E. Stanley papers document the earliest years of the School of Aeronautics and the planning that went into creating the school. Other material among the papers pertain to the early years of the Purdue Airport and Division of Engineering Sciences. Neil Armstrong was a student of Stanley's, and there are clippings, front pages of newspapers, reports, an invitation sent by Armstrong to Stanley for his homecoming celebrating in Wapakoneta, Ohio, along with other pre and post-Apollo 11...
Dates:
1909 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1969
Photographs and negatives, 1909 - 1956
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 3
Scope and Contents
This series provides a unique look into the earliest years of the Purdue Airport, aero equipment and labs, and staff (most unmarked). There is also a photo album titled, "Purdue Aeronautical Engineering," which also contains clippings from the 1940s. The clippings and photographs have been retained as originally placed in the album. There is also one folder which contains photographs of aircraft and pilots dating from 1909-1964. Other photographs were in envelopes marked, "Inter-American PTP,...
Dates:
1909 - 1956
Historical planes and pilots , 1909 - 1964
File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 3, File 1
Scope and Contents
Includes some clippings and stockroom forms from Roberts Motor Manufacturing Company, circa 1918.
Dates:
1909 - 1964
Photo album, Purdue Aeronautical Engineering Department, 1940 - 1949
File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 3, File 2
Scope and Contents
Album also contains clippings, some of which have been cut out and removed.
Dates:
1940 - 1949
Inter-American PTP Class 45B , 1940 - 1949
File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 3, File 3
Scope and Contents
Some photographs have names on the back, includes two "Inter-American PTP" cloth patches.
Dates:
1940 - 1949
Purdue Aeronautical Engineering Department, labs and equipment, 1940 - 1959
File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 3, File 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series provides a unique look into the earliest years of the Purdue Airport, aero equipment and labs, and staff (most unmarked). There is also a photo album titled, "Purdue Aeronautical Engineering," which also contains clippings from the 1940s. The clippings and photographs have been retained as originally placed in the album. There is also one folder which contains photographs of aircraft and pilots dating from 1909-1964. Other photographs were in envelopes marked, "Inter-American PTP,...
Dates:
1940 - 1959
Purdue airport, including aerial shots, and Fort Worth division of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, 1940 - 1959
File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 3, File 5
Scope and Contents
Includes a document, "Facts about Convair's Fort Worth Division."
Dates:
1940 - 1959
Purdue Aeronautical Engineering Department staff and various unidentified people, 1940 - 1959
File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSF 50, Series 3, File 6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series provides a unique look into the earliest years of the Purdue Airport, aero equipment and labs, and staff (most unmarked). There is also a photo album titled, "Purdue Aeronautical Engineering," which also contains clippings from the 1940s. The clippings and photographs have been retained as originally placed in the album. There is also one folder which contains photographs of aircraft and pilots dating from 1909-1964. Other photographs were in envelopes marked, "Inter-American PTP,...
Dates:
1940 - 1959