Abstract This collection contains two boxes of various aeronautical and road maps. Most of the maps cover San Diego, Los Angeles, and Southern California deserts, but the collection also contains maps of Las Vegas, Alaska, Chicago, Seattle, the North Pacific Ocean, Arizona, the Far East, and one world map. The maps were produced by U.S. Government corporations as well as oil companies and various transportation companies. The maps are all formatted with the Lambert Conformal Conic Projection. The...

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The entire collection is Consolidator magazine newsletters. It is organized by date, starting from October 1936 and ending in April 1942.

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The collection contains items reflecting the history of the San Diego Ford Building, including many articles on its history, news clippings, proposals, correspondence, and photocopies of photographs.

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Images of NAS North Island from 1900-2000. Many of these images were scanned by Mark Aldrich and other sources. Many scanned from the NAS North Island Archives.

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Thomas W. Sefton was in the US Air Corps and President at the San Diego Bank and Trust.

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Kenneth Smith has had a distinguished 43-year career in both the aerospace/electronics industry and in public service, working with Convair and serving as a naval aviator during WWII.

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This collection of over 90 color slides was accumulated during the career of an unknown U.S. Navy officer. The slides span roughly twenty years, from pilot’s training at NAS Pensacola in 1945 to an assignment to weather squadron VW-3 in the early sixties. While in port in San Diego in 1955 the officer visited the Torrey Pines Glider Port and photographed a number of interesting gliders there.