Abstract The collection contains articles, newspaper clippings, research notes, drawings, and photographs relating to lighter-than-air airships of all types. This is primarily a subject collection but has been cataloged as a collection of personal papers because it contains some personal effects (membership cards, correspondence, photographs) created and maintained by Daniel M. Burns. This collection includes photos. The photographs are not separated and are left in situ to preserve the original...

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This collection contains luggage labels from a variety of global airlines. The majority of the labels date from before World War II.

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Photos focusing on World War One aircraft and airships.

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The collection contains 92 manuscripts, written/compiled between the early twentieth century and early twenty-first century. These manuscripts range from television and movie scripts to flight logs, accident report, personal recollections, and biographies/memoirs. Subjects include (but are not limited to) early flight, World War I, World War II, women avioators, air ships, and flight testing.

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The bulk of the collection is research material relating to the development of lighter-than-air (LTA) craft in the post World War I period. The Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University holds a related collection, the Henry Cord Meyer Papers, 1915-1963.