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Airplanes

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

4 planes are used during the growing season at Seabrook Farms to spray insecticide on the crops., undated

 Item — Box Photo S-15, item: 54
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of the petroleum industry, including oil wells, oil fields, drilling operations, refineries, laboratories, company employees, petroleum-based products, shipping, and pipeline construction. The collection also includes images of farming, and new york City, new york.

Dates: undated

A “made up” job in the Ordinanceman’s School., Undated

 Item — Box Photo R-9A, item: 315
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the University of Oklahoma, the Naval Air Station at Norman, Oklahoma, defense work at Tinker Field, including women workers, the British Air School at Miami, Oklahoma, during World War II, dust storms, Ponca and Cherokee Indians and scenes of the 101 Ranch. Grace Ernestine Ray Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Air Service Command employees repairing the wings of an A-20., Undated

 Item — Box Photo R-8, item: 91
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the University of Oklahoma, the Naval Air Station at Norman, Oklahoma, defense work at Tinker Field, including women workers, the British Air School at Miami, Oklahoma, during World War II, dust storms, Ponca and Cherokee Indians and scenes of the 101 Ranch. Grace Ernestine Ray Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Airplane landing in Norman, c. 1918., circa 1918

 Item — Box Photo C-67, item: 75
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Norman and Lexington, Oklahoma. Includes street scenes, businesses, churches, schools, fairs, family and individual studio portraits.

Dates: circa 1918

All-girl crew at Tinker Field shown removing the fairing and hose connection on a B-25., Undated

 Item — Box Photo R-8, item: 84
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the University of Oklahoma, the Naval Air Station at Norman, Oklahoma, defense work at Tinker Field, including women workers, the British Air School at Miami, Oklahoma, during World War II, dust storms, Ponca and Cherokee Indians and scenes of the 101 Ranch. Grace Ernestine Ray Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Betty and Zack Mosley confer with Naval officers before the start of an air show at Orlando, Florida. , undated

 Item — Box Photo M-4, Item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of cartoonist Zack Mosley, the Mosley family, and Roy Crane.

Dates: undated

British pilot getting into his advanced training plane for his first night flight by instruments., Undated

 Item — Box Photo R-9A, item: 355
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the University of Oklahoma, the Naval Air Station at Norman, Oklahoma, defense work at Tinker Field, including women workers, the British Air School at Miami, Oklahoma, during World War II, dust storms, Ponca and Cherokee Indians and scenes of the 101 Ranch. Grace Ernestine Ray Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Burbank Murray and Massena Murray behind wing, Mr. Butler by blade in white shirt, and others observing the supply plane “Junkers” at Campo Grande, Bolivia Colony, c. 1929., circa 1929

 Item — Box Photo M-43, item: 152
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray family. Includes scenes of Alfalfa Bill as governor, the 1907 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, the inauguration of Johnston Murray as Governor of Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation Senate, the Murray farm in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, and Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Also contains scenes of the Oklahoma National Guard, petroleum industry operations in Oklahoma, colonists of the Murray family in Bolivia, and scenes of the Murray Colony in Bolivia.

Dates: circa 1929

C-47 cargo plane takes off from Tinker Field with her two motors almost side open and her fuselage full of rush cargo headed for battle., Undated

 Item — Box Photo R-8, item: 98
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the University of Oklahoma, the Naval Air Station at Norman, Oklahoma, defense work at Tinker Field, including women workers, the British Air School at Miami, Oklahoma, during World War II, dust storms, Ponca and Cherokee Indians and scenes of the 101 Ranch. Grace Ernestine Ray Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Colonel Charles Lindberg, standing beside the “Spirit of St. Louis”. (1927). , 1927

 Item — Box Photo M-4, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis, and of Ameila Earhart standing by an unidentified airplane. Raymond Stallings McLain Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1927

Cunningham-Dillion Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1667
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Vince Dillion photographs of the Miller Brothes 101 Wild West Show and Ranch. Included are scenes of cowboys, cowgirls, and Indian performers, along with photographs of Pawnee Bill's Old Town, Ponca City, and Fairfax Oklahoma.

Dates: 1910-1930

Depot workers as they load crated plane parts into the maw of the Army C-46, which landed at Tinker Filed to take on a rush order., Undated

 Item — Box Photo R-8, item: 87
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the University of Oklahoma, the Naval Air Station at Norman, Oklahoma, defense work at Tinker Field, including women workers, the British Air School at Miami, Oklahoma, during World War II, dust storms, Ponca and Cherokee Indians and scenes of the 101 Ranch. Grace Ernestine Ray Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Dewey Airplane Company, Dewey, Oklahoma, 1918., 1918

 Item — Box Photo C-9, Item: 19
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Dewey, Indian Territory and Oklahoma. The collection includes street scenes, oil drilling activities in the Weber Pool near Dewey, school children, and an airplane manufactured by the Dewey Airplane Company.

Dates: 1918

Early aircraft, ca. 1918., circa 1918

 Item — Box Photo M-25, item: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of students, athletic events, athletes, commencement, and buildings on the University of Oklahoma campus, and general scenes of Norman, Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: circa 1918

Early aircraft, ca. 1918., circa 1918

 Item — Box Photo M-25, item: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of students, athletic events, athletes, commencement, and buildings on the University of Oklahoma campus, and general scenes of Norman, Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: circa 1918

Early model airplane flying next to a hot-air balloon. Caption says “38 Paulham on his Record Breaking Flight 4600 Feet.” Postcard., Undated

 Item — Box Photo H-6, item: 73
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of American Indians, including Caddo, Cheyenne, Hopi, Kiowa, Menominee, Navajo, Pueblo, and Sioux; airplanes; baseball players; Belle Starr; businesses; cowboys; the land run of 1889; mining operations in Nome, Alaska; mining; schools; soldiers; street scenes; tornado damage in Duke, Oklahoma; the Anadarko Indian Fair in Anadarko, Oklahoma; Baxter, Hawarden, and Smithland, Iowa; Fort Riley, Kansas; Ellsworth, Minnesota; Cameron, Missouri; and Fort Gibson, Fort Sill, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Fort Tri-Motor of Air Cruisers, INC. parked in field. Note Ford Model-A cars in background. 1925., 1925

 Item — Box Photo W-25, item: 199
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of sawmills, quarries, lime kilns, lumber yards, glass factories, smelters, oil wells and storage tanks, and ranches in Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of numerous Oklahoma cities and towns; the University of Oklahoma; of railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; of Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Sioux, and Wichita Indians; of limestone and gypsum deposits in Oklahoma; and of the Oklahoma salt plains. Quanah Parker, Wanda Parker, Hollow Horn Bear, Hunting Horse, Mad Wolf, Geronimo, Bear Claw, and Amy Toughfeathers are among the photographs of individuals in the collection.

Dates: 1925

Frank Phillips, Bartlesville, one of Oklahoma’s oil men, has assembled a museum at his Woolaroc Ranch, showing the airplane in which Col. Arthur C. Goebel won the Dole race from Oakland, California to Hawaii in 1927., 1927

 Item — Box Photo R-8, item: 106
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the University of Oklahoma, the Naval Air Station at Norman, Oklahoma, defense work at Tinker Field, including women workers, the British Air School at Miami, Oklahoma, during World War II, dust storms, Ponca and Cherokee Indians and scenes of the 101 Ranch. Grace Ernestine Ray Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1927

Frankie Murray and Mr. Butler on cargo crates under plane, “Junkers” at Bolivia Colony. [Same as #179 in Murray (Burbank) Coll.] c. late 1920., circa 1920

 Item — Box Photo M-43, item: 149
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray family. Includes scenes of Alfalfa Bill as governor, the 1907 Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, the inauguration of Johnston Murray as Governor of Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation Senate, the Murray farm in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, and Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Also contains scenes of the Oklahoma National Guard, petroleum industry operations in Oklahoma, colonists of the Murray family in Bolivia, and scenes of the Murray Colony in Bolivia.

Dates: circa 1920

Fueling a Pan-American plane by a revolutionary fueling method., undated

 Item — Box Photo S-16, item: 166
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of the petroleum industry, including oil wells, oil fields, drilling operations, refineries, laboratories, company employees, petroleum-based products, shipping, and pipeline construction. The collection also includes images of farming, and new york City, new york.

Dates: undated

Gen. Hurley on U.S. military plane, Colombo, Ceylon, 2-20-1945, 1945 February 20

 Item — Box Photo H-36, item: 143
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Patrick Jay Hurley's career as United States Assistant Secretary of War and Secretary of War, special presidential representative to the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, and United States Ambassador to China during World War II. The collection contains scenes of Hurley with Joseph W. Stilwell, Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-tung, Chiang Kai-shek, Douglas MacArthur, Claire Lee Chennault, and Herbert Hoover. Also included are photographs of Secretary of War Hurley's inspection tours of United States military installations, suppression of the Bonus Army riots in 1932, Hurley with Japanese military representatives, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles A. Lindbergh, Amon Carter, Will Rogers, Chester Nimitz, Jonathan Wainwright, Henry Stimson, William Halsey, Bacone College and the towns of McAlester, Oklahoma and Phillips, Indian Territory. Patrick J. Hurley Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1945 February 20

George Case Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1527
Scope and Contents

Black and white original prints of Dewey, Indian Territory and Oklahoma. The collection includes street scenes, oil drilling activities in the Weber Pool near Dewey, school children, and an airplane manufactured by the Dewey Airplane Company.

Dates: 1905-1918

“Grande Semaine D’Aviation De Champagne (Premiere Journee) Latham montant dans son aeroplane (Monoplan Antoinette)”. Has a stamp that reads “Grande Semaine D’Aviation De La Champagne. Reims.” Postcard., Undated

 Item — Box Photo H-6, item: 72
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of American Indians, including Caddo, Cheyenne, Hopi, Kiowa, Menominee, Navajo, Pueblo, and Sioux; airplanes; baseball players; Belle Starr; businesses; cowboys; the land run of 1889; mining operations in Nome, Alaska; mining; schools; soldiers; street scenes; tornado damage in Duke, Oklahoma; the Anadarko Indian Fair in Anadarko, Oklahoma; Baxter, Hawarden, and Smithland, Iowa; Fort Riley, Kansas; Ellsworth, Minnesota; Cameron, Missouri; and Fort Gibson, Fort Sill, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

H. F. Donnelley Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-2210
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints of Enid, and Helena, Oklahoma, and of the H.F. Donnelley family. Some photographs include scenes of airplanes and U.S. Army infantry.

Dates: 1905-1977

Hydraulic jack, one of the most important inventions to come out of the Oklahoma City Air Depot, being demonstrated by its inventor and builder., Undated

 Item — Box Photo R-8, item: 97
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of the University of Oklahoma, the Naval Air Station at Norman, Oklahoma, defense work at Tinker Field, including women workers, the British Air School at Miami, Oklahoma, during World War II, dust storms, Ponca and Cherokee Indians and scenes of the 101 Ranch. Grace Ernestine Ray Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Irvin Munn Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-2492
Scope and Contents

Black and white original and copy prints of the towns of Chickasha and Minco, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and Tuttle, Oklahoma. The collection includes photographs of street scenes, businesses, agriculture, railroads, schools, ferries, fire fighters, airplanes, and electric railroads.

Dates: 1890-1940