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Orville Burch Freeman (1893-1966) served with the US Army Air Service as an aviator, and later as a flight instructor, at Kelly Field, Texas during World War I and in the interwar period.
Orville Burch Freeman (1893-1966) served with the US Army Air Service as an aviator, and later as a flight instructor, at Kelly Field, Texas during World War I and in the interwar period. This collection consists of one photo album created by Freeman documenting his military career.
NASM.2020.0021
Freeman, Orville Burch, 1893-1966
1910s to 1920s
Glenn Farris, Gift, 2020, NASM.2020.0021
0.08 Cubic feet (1 flat box)
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one photo album created by Orville Burch Freeman documenting his career with the US Army Air Service. The album measures approximately 11.5 x 7 inches and contains more than 130 photographs. Photographs in the album, many of which were taken at Kelly Field, Texas, show other pilots and aircraft including air to air views of various aircraft in flight and aircraft accidents. Cyrus K. "Cy" Bettis (1893-1926) is shown in several photographs, including one with an erroneous label that states he died in 1924. Aircraft shown in the album include various models of Curtiss JN-4 including the Curtiss JN-4H Hisso Jenny and the Curtiss JN-4HB Hisso Jenny, as well as the Dayton Wright DH-4. There also aerial photographs of various locations in Texas. The album contains captions written by Freeman.
Collection is in original order.
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Kelly Field Photo Album, NASM.2020.0021, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Aeronautics, Military
Airplanes
Air pilots
Dayton Wright DH-4
Curtiss JN-4 Jenny Family
Aircraft accidents
World War, 1914-1918
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photograph albums