United Air Lines and Miscellaneous Aviation Photographs Scott

This collection consists of approximately 0.58 cubic feet of photographs and negatives gathered by Gordon "Scotty" Scott. There is a folder of black and white photographs ranging in size from 2.25 by 3.25 up to 8 by 10 inches that show United Air Lines dispatchers and other personnel at work in the San Francisco Airport in the 1930s, including Scott himself. Many of these are captioned with names. There are also three photographs of a United Air Lines Douglas DC-3A. The rest of the collection consists of a variety of aviation and aircraft photographs and negatives. There is a 19.5 by 7.5 inch panoramic gelatin silver print photograph mounted on board measuring 21 by inches that is a composite image of aircraft participating in either the 1910 or 1911 San Francisco International Aviation Meet at Tanforan Park, San Bruno, California. There is also a 7 by 5 inch negative for the image marked, "Louis Renard, San Francisco, Copyright 1911." Additional photographs in the collection show a variety of aircraft including the Antoinette VII; Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Boston II" (Prototype); Curtiss P-1F Hawk; Lockheed 1 Vega; Keystone LB-6 Panther; Fokker F.VIIB-3m "Southern Cross"; Travel Air Model 6000; Stearman (1927) Model C-3B; Ryan B.1X Brougham; Pitcairn PA-6 Sport Mailwing; Vought O2U Corsair; Monocoupe Monocoupe Model 70; Bach Air Yacht 3-CT-8; Travel Air Model 2000; Curtiss N2C-1 Fledgling; Arrow (NE) Sport; Waco GXE; Fokker Universal (Atlantic Model 4); Curtiss Robin B; Ford Tri-Motor; Stearman (1927) Model C-3B; Kreutzer K-3 Air Coach; Fokker F-32 (US Model 12); Aircraft Industries (FL) Sierra BLW-2; and the Boeing Model 40B. The collection also includes a small amount of ephemera, including a brochure of schedules and fares for commercial air transport lines operating from the United States dated 1929; a booklet of air transport facts published by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America in 1934; a report on the activities of United Air Lines in 1938 that has been notated by Scott with caption information for the photographs appearing in the document; a printed out excerpt from a publication about Naval Auxiliary Air Facility, Mills Field; and two brochures produced in 1968 by Air Mail Pioneers regarding the 50th anniversary of air mail service.

Collection is arranged by type of material.