A group of Berlin youngsters stand on top a bomb damaged building near Tempelhof Airport, July 9, to watch airlift operations. A U.S. Air Force C-54 skymaster flies overhead, having just deposited it's cargo of coal.
The Boeing 707 prototype, Americas first jet transport, lifted from the Renton municipal airport runway adjacent to The Boeing Company plant where it was built as thousands of spectators watched, some from the roofs of nearby buildings. Ushering in...
All clear and ready for take-off with three tons of parts for the Edgewater plant of the Ford Motor Company. Routine flights from Detroit to Teterboro Airport, near the New Jersey plant, are made nightly by Meteor. Pilot Matt Byrns is receiving...
To introduce the 1949 Lincoln, Mercury and Ford cars to the public, the News Bureau prepared and distributed press packets which were sent to all daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and radio stations. Pictures were obtained by sending...
Collection guide; Business leaders; Construction and building industry
Collection guide for John McShain papers. McShain was a Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.,-based building contractor. His major projects included the White House renovation (1950-1951), the Pentagon, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library...
Text from back of image: "The ZMC-2, America's first all-metal dirigible airship landed at Grosse Ile, Airport Detroit (Mich.) last night after its initial flight test. The big metal ship, piloted by Captain William C. Kepner, one of the country's...
Text from back of image: "This telephoned picture from the Municipal Airport in Los Angeles shows the Graf Zeppelin as it rested there, poised ready to start for Lakehurst, NJ to finish round-world trip, August 26, 1929."
Text from back of image: 'Photo shows Capt. D. Coste and Maurice Bellonte, receiving the congratulations of one of their admirers, at Curtiss Airport, Long Island, as they returned after successfully completing their flight to Dallas, Texas, for...
Text from back of image: 'Flying the same plane in which Clarence Chamberlin crossed the Atlantic, Captain J. E. Boyd, took off from Floyd Bennett Airport in New York City on June 11th on a projected non-stop good will flight to Port-Au-Prince,...
Text from back of image: 'The plane 'Star of Australia' with Capt. T. P. Ulm and two companions aboard took off from Oakland Airport, Calif., on the first leg of the flight to Australia. This photo shows, left to right: Capt. T.P. Ulm, chief pilot;...
Text from back of image: 'Photo shows Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, surrounded by the throngs of their admirers, that turned out to greet them on arrival at airport in Washington, D.C. from New York. They will have luncheon with...
Text from back of image: 'Maurice Rossi (right), the pilot, and Paul Codos, the navigator of the French monoplane Le Brix, present a rather tired appearance at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, May 28, after being whisked there, accompanied...
Text from back of image: 'Paul Codos (left) and Maurice Rossi, the daring French airmen who crossed the Atlantic from Paris to New York in 38 hours and 27 minutes, are pictured at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, May 28, shortly after they...
Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International...
Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International...
Text from back of image: "The line-up of balloons at the Ford Airport, Detroit, Mich., ready to take off, in the Great International Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race."
