Box 32.5
Container
Contains 7 Results:
Sheet 14. 8×10 of a plane being lifted by crane on top of the Wurzburg Building. A man standing in the street below gives directions with onlookers at the windows, plus another photo of a Navy plan lying upside down on a landing strip. + Verso: 10 snapshots, including at least 6 related to U.S. Coast Guard retrieval showing a body lying face down.
File — Box: 32.5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers document the development of aviation and the airport in Kent County, Michigan. The largest part of the collection dates from 1930 to 1957 when Walsh was Kent County Airport Manager at the former airport site along Eastern Avenue, south of 32nd Street, in southeast Grand Rapids. Walsh was quick to understand the commercial and military potential of aviation and has often been credited with being the driving force behind efforts in Kent County to advance aviation beyond the era of...
Dates:
1910-1985
Sheet 15. 5 photos including (1) 5 people standing beside a plane. A woman is in the center, two men at the left are in flight suits, Walsh is far right (2) Woman in flight gear seated on a plane looking at the camera, with another man in the plane talking to a man behind the plan. (3) Crash (4) structure in progress? (5) Crash? (6) Verso 8×10 inside the restaurant of six men. Of the two seated, Walsh is at the left, and the man right has a “Dawn Patrol” ribbon on his shirt. Men standing, L-R: L.M. Lockly, F.E. Evans, O.C. Hall, unknown
File — Box: 32.5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers document the development of aviation and the airport in Kent County, Michigan. The largest part of the collection dates from 1930 to 1957 when Walsh was Kent County Airport Manager at the former airport site along Eastern Avenue, south of 32nd Street, in southeast Grand Rapids. Walsh was quick to understand the commercial and military potential of aviation and has often been credited with being the driving force behind efforts in Kent County to advance aviation beyond the era of...
Dates:
1910-1985
Sheet 16. 8×10 inside restaurant, men & women, possibly the Dawn Patrol. Verso images include: (1) Construction, probably of an amphibious pier, perhaps in Detroit, with an overhead trestle construction as well. (2) View of the construction from the water (3) plane head on (4) Three people beside a plane (5) Crash?
File — Box: 32.5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers document the development of aviation and the airport in Kent County, Michigan. The largest part of the collection dates from 1930 to 1957 when Walsh was Kent County Airport Manager at the former airport site along Eastern Avenue, south of 32nd Street, in southeast Grand Rapids. Walsh was quick to understand the commercial and military potential of aviation and has often been credited with being the driving force behind efforts in Kent County to advance aviation beyond the era of...
Dates:
1910-1985
Sheet 17. Six photos + 1 8×10, including: (1) Group of men (2) plane in the air (3) construction of a runway (4) crash (5) Group standing by a plane, including foreign visitors (6) Two women seated in front of a small building (7) Verso 8×10 of military with camouflaged airplanes
File — Box: 32.5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers document the development of aviation and the airport in Kent County, Michigan. The largest part of the collection dates from 1930 to 1957 when Walsh was Kent County Airport Manager at the former airport site along Eastern Avenue, south of 32nd Street, in southeast Grand Rapids. Walsh was quick to understand the commercial and military potential of aviation and has often been credited with being the driving force behind efforts in Kent County to advance aviation beyond the era of...
Dates:
1910-1985
Sheet 18. Six photos + 1 8×10, including: (1) Two photos of an airport terminal building with covered side porches either side, location unknown (2) Men with barrels and equipment (3) Two unknown aerials (4) Central Air Service building (5) Verso: Group of 15 men standing near an airplane. Walsh is 3rd from the right in the standing back row.
File — Box: 32.5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers document the development of aviation and the airport in Kent County, Michigan. The largest part of the collection dates from 1930 to 1957 when Walsh was Kent County Airport Manager at the former airport site along Eastern Avenue, south of 32nd Street, in southeast Grand Rapids. Walsh was quick to understand the commercial and military potential of aviation and has often been credited with being the driving force behind efforts in Kent County to advance aviation beyond the era of...
Dates:
1910-1985
Sheet 19. 8×10 + 4 aerials verso. The 8×10 is of a group of men & boys in front of a plane being loaded, probably from the same shoot as 18 above.
File — Box: 32.5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers document the development of aviation and the airport in Kent County, Michigan. The largest part of the collection dates from 1930 to 1957 when Walsh was Kent County Airport Manager at the former airport site along Eastern Avenue, south of 32nd Street, in southeast Grand Rapids. Walsh was quick to understand the commercial and military potential of aviation and has often been credited with being the driving force behind efforts in Kent County to advance aviation beyond the era of...
Dates:
1910-1985
Sheet 20. 8×10 + 5 aerials. The 8×10 appears to be another photos from the same group as in 18 & 19 above, with the same plane, fewer people, and more mail bags. Some of the aerials on the other size are icy water and a ship in the ice.
File — Box: 32.5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers document the development of aviation and the airport in Kent County, Michigan. The largest part of the collection dates from 1930 to 1957 when Walsh was Kent County Airport Manager at the former airport site along Eastern Avenue, south of 32nd Street, in southeast Grand Rapids. Walsh was quick to understand the commercial and military potential of aviation and has often been credited with being the driving force behind efforts in Kent County to advance aviation beyond the era of...
Dates:
1910-1985