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The Early Aeronautical Newsclippings (Alexander Graham Bell) Collection (NASM.XXXX.0086) consists of 19 boxes of material about early aviation and aeronautics collected by Alexander Graham Bell between 1906 and 1912.
Identifier
NASM.XXXX.0086
Creator
Beals, Jessie Tarbox
Date
1903-1974
Provenance
No donor information, NASM.XXXX.0086, unknown
Extent
23.64 Cubic feet (18 records center boxes; 1 11x17x3 flatbox)
Archival Repository
National Air and Space Museum Archives
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of newspaper clippings gathered by Dr. Bell during the early years of aviation. The material, compiled from American, British, French, and German papers, as well as others, covers a variety of subjects from balloon and airship ascents, air shows, races, and record flights, to accidents, technological developments, and applications. The collection ends with an album of photographs of the aeronautical exhibit at the Automobile Show held in New York in 1907. Supplemental indexes were created for the collection at later times.
Note: The digital images in this finding aid were repurposed from scans made by an outside contractor for a commercial product and may show irregular cropping and orientation in addition to color variations resulting from damage to and deterioration of the original objects.
Arrangement note
The collection is arranged by in the following series: 1. Scrapbooks 2. Indexes 3. Photographs
Rights
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Restrictions
No restrictions on access
Citation
Early Aeronautical Newsclippings (Alexander Graham Bell) Collection, Acc. NASM.XXXX.0086, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Topics
Aeronautics
Aeronautics -- 1903-1916
Periodicals
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Clippings