Historic Letter Collection
Display Status:
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Identifier
NASM.XXXX.0477
Date
bulk 1894-1980
Provenance
Gift, Various donors, Various
Extent
0.45 Cubic feet ((1 box))
Restrictions
No restrictions on access.
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Correspondence
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of approximately 100 historic letters. Correspondents include: Neil Armstrong, Alexander Graham Bell, Richard Byrd, George Clemenceau, Jacqueline Cochran, Glenn H. Curtiss, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, Jimmy Doolittle, Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Augustus Herring, Harry Houdini, Otto Lilienthal, Henry Cabot Lodge, Grover Loening, Charles Manley, Hiram Maxim, James Means, William Mitchell, Eddie Rickenbacker, Alex P. de Seversky, I. Sikorsky, and Ferdinard von Zeppelin.
Genre/Form
Correspondence
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
Names
Armstrong, Neil, 1930-
Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922
Cochran, Jacqueline
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973
Topic
Aeronautics
Air pilots
Astronautics
Citation
Historic Letter Collection, Accession XXXX-0477, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Archival Repository
National Air and Space Museum Archives
