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Box 34

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Contains 150 Results:

Original & copy photo of Walsh seated at his desk, with pipe in hand, and calendar partially visible upper right

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 18
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

Walsh seated in his office with a long pipe(?) in his hands and photos on the wall behind him

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 18
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

Priest Light(?) left, with Walsh right, Walsh with the pipe in hand.

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 18
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

Walsh leaving State Aeronautics Board after fight with G. Mennen Williams, ca. 1955

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 18
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: ca. 1955

Phil Veesri(?) left and Walsh right, interior view, both with glasses in hand, 1968-06-28

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 18
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: 1968-06-28

Walsh left and unidentified man right, standing on the wing of a small plane

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 18
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

Walsh standing center with the County of Kent Michigan seal on the wall behind him. Men standing and seated in desk behind Walsh. A name plaque on one of the desks, lower right, has “George R. Cook, Civil Counsel”. Unidentified woman pinning a shamrock on Walsh's lapel, at the steps to a train.

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 18
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

Bob Ross and Welsh looking at a plaque attached to a rock or building “This Airport is dedicated to the memory of Daniel Waters Cassard...”

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 18
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

Walsh with a miniature United Airlines airplane in hand, presented by a pilot of other flight personnel in a uniform. Behind them is a photographer standing on “United” mobile stairs, and behind that is an airplane with “Jet Mainliner City of Grand Rapids” printed on the side.

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 18
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