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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2003682042
Collection material in English and French
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
Collection purchased by Library of Congress in 1969.
The materials in the collection were evidently assembled by staff of the magazine
An initial finding aid was encoded by Glenn Gardner in September, 2006. This finding aid was revised and expanded between June and August 2009 by three Junior Fellows, Frank Garmon, Sarah Hallett, and Ruth Lincoln.
Frank Garmon added envelope descriptions to the finding aid and described the contents of boxes 1-4, 9 and 9A, 15, 18 and 18A, 22-29, 37-39, 45, 47, 54, 65, 70, 107-111, 113-114, 127-129, and 147-149.
Sarah Hallett completed boxes 10, 11, and 30.
Ruth Lincoln completed boxes 40, 41, 63, and 69.
Boxes 12-14, 16-17, 19-21, 31-36, 42-44, 46, 48-53, 55-62, 64, 66-68, 71-106, 115-126, 130-146, 150 and 150A remain to be described or are partially described.
Unclassed in Science Section, Researcher Engagement and General Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Request in the Science Section, Researcher Engagement and General Collections Division.
Inquire in the Science Section, Researcher Engagement and General Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
An enhanced Web presentation of the L’Aerophile Collection is available on the Library of Congress Web site at http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/trs/trslaerophile.html.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: The L’Aerophile Collection, Science Section, Researcher Engagement and General Collections Division, Library of Congress.
In January 1893 the French journalist and balloonist Georges Besançon (1866-1934), in collaboration with the Union Aérophile de France, began publishing a monthly illustrated revue
The fifteen thousand or so items contained in the 152 boxes of the Library of Congress collection include blueprints and manufactures' information of early French and foreign aircraft and dirigibles, reports of accidents involving flyers and balloonists, aerial photographs from World War I, and a series of French cartoons from the period 1909 - 1912 related to aviation. The collection also contains hundreds of photographs of early aviators and designers, including pictures of Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow being feted in Paris during their European trip of 1933. A large number of
The L'Aerophile Collection is arranged in six series:
Early photographs, handbooks, catalogs, newspaper articles, blueprints, intelligence reports, and other publications relating to the early years of aviation, including balloon flight, airplanes and aviators.
Arranged in boxes, folders, and envelopes.
Contains guides, studies, drawings, publicity, books, and albums relating to early aviation companies and aviation-related events.
Arranged alphabetically by aviation company.
Photographs, drawings, and charts pertaining to early aviation in the first half of the twentieth century.
Arrangement generally by type of material, arranged alphabetically within type.
Aircraft information arranged by country of origin and specific type of aircraft.
Generally arranged by country of origin, and by type (balloons, dirigibles, gliders, hydroplanes, and model aircraft).
Information on companies that produced aircraft motors and engine.
Alphabetically, by company.
Photographs and publications on aviators and aircraft designers.
Arranged alphabetically, by nationality.