Institute of Aerospace Sciences archives

LC control no.	mm 79010694
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Corporate name	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. » More like this
Main title	Institute of Aerospace Sciences archives, 1783-1962.
Related names	Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Walt Whitman notes. 1850. » More like this Institute of the Aerospace Sciences. Institute of the Aerospace Sciences archives. » More like this
Description	30,000 items. 182 containers plus 83 oversize. 4 microfilm reels. 80 linear feet.
Organized/Arranged	Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Biographical Files, 1784-1962; Series 2: Aircraft Company Files; Series 3: Miscellany, 1804-1932; series 4: Scrapbooks, 1783-1955; Series 5: Material Removed from Scrapbooks after Microfilming Institute of Aerospace Sciences Archives; and Series 6: Oversize, 1805-1955.
Access advisory	Open to research.
Biography/History note	The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics was formed in 1963 by the merger of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences and the American Rocket Society. These records constitute the historical aeronautical archives of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences.
Summary	Biographical and corporate files, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous materials collected by the institute between 1939 and 1962. Includes correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts of articles and speeches, reports, biographical questionnaires and sketches, genealogical records, financial reports, broadsides, charts, press releases, newspaper clippings, blueprints, cartoons, maps, aeromedical and aeronautical reproductions, airplane specifications, prints, engravings, illustrations, sketches, photographs, memorabilia, printed matter, and other records relating to aviation and aeronautics collected and maintained by the institute prior to its merger with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Items of special interest include Thomas Jefferson's letter concerning the prospects of air flight (1822); Edmund Charles Genet's letters (1826-1827); Walt Whitman's notes on aviation (1850); Victor Hugo's letter sent from Paris by balloon during the siege of the Paris Commune (1871); files of T.S.C. Lowe including correspondence with Joseph Henry, George Gordon Meade, and Edwin McMasters Stanton; a 1904 letter by Theodore Roosevelt to Walter Wellman (1904) concerning a possible flight to the North Pole; a 1917 letter written by Franklin D. Roosevelt pertaining to ballooning; and Charles A. Lindbergh's application for the Orteig Prize awarded to the first person to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. Includes biographical files for Henry Harley Arnold, Thomas S. Baldwin, Louis Blériot, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Clarence D. Chamberlin, Octave Chanute, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Alexander P. de Seversky, James Harold Doolittle, Amelia Earhart, C.G. Grey, Frank Hawks, Henry Allen Hazen, William S. Henson, Maurice Holland, Howard Hughes, John Jeffries, Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, Alexander Klemin, Roy Knabenshue, S.P. Langley, Charles A. Lindbergh, T.S.C. Lowe, Johnny Mack, Glenn L. Martin, James V. Martin, William Mitchell, Auguste Piccard, Wiley Post, Eddie Rickenbacker, Alberto Santos-Dumont, T.O. Selfridge, Igor Ivan Sikorsky, A. Leo Stevens, John Stringfellow, J.T. Trippe, Edward Pearson Warner, Orville Wright, and Wilbur Wright. Files of T.S.C. Lowe include correspondence with Joseph Henry, George Gordon Meade, and Edwin McMasters Stanton. Corporate files are composed primarily of newspaper clippings and printed materials, and include files for many American aircraft corporations. The scrapbooks contain a variety of materials concerning aviation and aeronautical history ranging from balloons and the Zeppelin to the development of the modern military air force and commercial airlines. Includes a set of scrapbooks concerning the Wright brothers.
Notes	Collection material in English. MSS10694
Finding aids	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011135>
Acquisition source	Gift, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1964-1966.
Additional formats	Microfilm edition only of scrapbooks relating to the Wright brothers available, no. 19,312. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985.
Subjects	Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950. » More like this Baldwin, Thomas S. » More like this Blériot, Louis, 1872-1936. » More like this Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957. » More like this Chamberlin, Clarence D. (Clarence Duncan), 1893-1976. » More like this Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910. » More like this Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930. » More like this De Seversky, Alexander P. (Alexander Procofieff), 1894-1974. » More like this Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993. » More like this Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937. » More like this Genet, Edmond Charles, 1763-1834--Correspondence. » More like this Grey, C. G. (Charles Grey), 1875-1953. » More like this Hawks, Frank, 1897-1938. » More like this Hazen, Henry Allen, 1849-1900. » More like this Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878--Correspondence. » More like this Henson, William S. (William Samuel), 1805?-1888. » More like this Holland, Maurice, b. 1891. » More like this Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976. » More like this Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885--Correspondence. » More like this Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Correspondence. » More like this Jeffries, John, 1745-1819. » More like this Kingsford-Smith, Charles Edward, Sir, 1897-1935. » More like this Klemin, Alexander, 1888-1950. » More like this Knabenshue, Roy, d. 1960 » More like this Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906. » More like this Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974. » More like this Lowe, T. S. C. (Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt), 1832-1913. » More like this Mack, Johnny, b. 1881. » More like this Martin, Glenn L. (Glenn Luther), 1886-1955. » More like this Martin, James V. (James Vernon), 1885-1956. » More like this Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872--Correspondence. » More like this Mitchell, William, 1879-1936. » More like this Post, Wiley, 1898-1935. » More like this Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973. » More like this Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Correspondence. » More like this Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Correspondence. » More like this Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 1873-1932. » More like this Selfridge, T. O. (Thomas Oliver), 1836-1924. » More like this Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972. » More like this Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869--Correspondence. » More like this Stevens, A. Leo (Albert Leo), 1877-1944. » More like this Trippe, J. T. (Juan Terry), 1899-1981. » More like this Warner, Edward Pearson, b. 1894. » More like this Wellman, Walter, 1858-1934--Correspondence. » More like this Wright, Orville, 1871-1948. » More like this Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912. » More like this Graf Zeppelin (Airship) » More like this Aeronautics. » More like this Aeronautics--Societies, etc. » More like this Aeronautics, Commercial. » More like this Aeronautics, Military. » More like this Air pilots. » More like this Aircraft industry. » More like this Astronautics--Societies, etc. » More like this Astronautics, Military. » More like this Ballooning. » More like this Balloons. » More like this Flight. » More like this Transatlantic flights. » More like this Arctic regions--Aerial exploration. » More like this North Pole. » More like this Paris (France)--History--Commune, 1871. » More like this
Local shelving no.	0315L Oversize 0116D Microfilm 19,312-4N-4P
Repository	Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home>
Links	Archived Web site : Official Web site of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.: <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/mrva0012.0003/> Finding aid: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011135> Finding aid (PDF): <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011135.3>