L'Aerophile collection, 1876-1949 (bulk 1893-1949).
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Correspondence, blueprints and manufactures information for early French and foreign aircraft and dirigibles, reports of accidents involving flyers and balloonists, World War I aerial photographs and intelligence reports, a series of French cartoons, drawings, graphs, charts, diagrams of equipment, maps, newspapers, printed material, and photographs. The materials in the collection were evidently assembled by staff of the magazine L'Aerophile which was published by Georges Besançon in collaboration with Union Aérophile de France. Subjects include aeronautics chiefly in Europe and the U.S., aeronautics corporations, air shows, aviators, balloons, bombs and missiles, commercial airlines, dirigibles, gliders, hydroplanes, medical aviation, military aeronautics, model aircraft, parachutes, propellers, record flights, and research and testing of aircraft. Individuals represented include Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold, Georges Besançon, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and William "Billy" Mitchell.
L'Aerophile collection, Science, Technology, & Business Division, Library of Congress.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Science and Business Reading Room and on Internet.
Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950.
Besançon, Georges, 1866-1934.
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937.
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974.
Mitchell, William, 1879-1936.
Union aérophile de France.
Aérophile.
Aerial photography.
Aeronautics.
Aeronautics--Caricatures and cartoons.
Aeronautics--Flights.
Aeronautics--Research.
Aeronautics--Europe.
Aeronautics--United States.
Aeronautics--France--Periodicals.
Aeronautics, Commercial.
Aeronautics in medicine.
Aeronautics, Military.
Air pilots.
Air shows.
Aircraft accidents.
Aircraft industry.
Aircraft industry--Equipment and supplies.
Airplanes.
Airplanes--Design and construction.
Airplanes--Models.
Airplanes--Testing.
Airships.
Airships--Design and construction.
Airships--Testing.
Balloonists.
Balloons.
Balloons--Design and construction.
Balloons--Testing.
Blueprints.
Bombs.
Gliders (Aeronautics)
Hydroplanes.
Parachutes.
Projectiles, Aerial.
Propellers, Aerial.
World War, 1914-1918--Military intelligence.
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/eadgdc.gc006001
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/eadgdc.gc006001.3
The L'Aerophile collection is open to research.