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1. 525.005 - Classic Aviation

   Classic Aviation League

   Record Type: Library

   
2. Album, Photograph

   Photograph album, on cover: "Photographs", Illinois Model Aero Club logo on cover, first page reads "READ BELOW _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ In looking through this album, enjoy yourselves, but kindly kindly keep it as clean as possible, and handle it carefully. "*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*" After looking through the pages, think whether you have any good photos, which would help to make this pictorial history of the GREATEST MODEL AERO CLUB IN THE WORLD more com...

   Record Type: Archives

   
3. Album, Photograph (Photocopies of)

   Unbound color photocopy of pages of IMAC photo album ID A2018.24.11 Description of Album A2018.24.11: Album, Photograph, on cover: "Photographs", Illinois Model Aero Club logo on cover, first page reads "READ BELOW _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ In looking through this album, enjoy yourselves, but kindly kindly keep it as clean as possible, and handle it carefully. "*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*" After looking through the pages, think whether you have any good pho...

   Record Type: Archives

   
4. Booklet

   Booklet, black & white photocopies of pages of IMAC photo album ID A2018.24.11. Description of album A2018.24.11: Album, Photograph, on cover: "Photographs", Illinois Model Aero Club logo on cover, first page reads "READ BELOW _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ In looking through this album, enjoy yourselves, but kindly kindly keep it as clean as possible, and handle it carefully. "*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*"*" After looking through the pages, think whether you have ...

   Record Type: Archives

   
5. Catalog - 1912

   Catalog, blue-green, on cover: "SECOND EDITION - 1912, REVISED AND ENLARGED, AEROPLANE HAND BOOK ON MODELS SUPPLIES ACCESSORIES GLIDERS, WE LEAD - OTHERS FOLLOW, THE WHITE AEROPLANE CO., Main Office and Salesroom, 337 ADAMS STREET, Telephone, 3878 MAIN, BROOKLYN, N.Y.," The White Aeroplane Co., 1912

   Record Type: Archives

   
6. Catalog - 1912

   Catalog, on cover: "FIRST EDITION - 1912, AEROPLANE, Models - Supplies - Accessories, We Were THE PIONEERS, Now We're OLD SETTLERS, THE WHITE AEROPLANE CO., Office and Salesroom, 337 Adams Street, Telephone, 3878 MAIN, BROOKLYN, N.Y.," The White Aeroplane Co., 1912

   Record Type: Archives

   
7. Catalog - 1912

   Catalog, on cover "Rotary 'Nomie' Miniature Motors, Carbonic Acid Gas--Compressed Air or Steam FOR MODEL AEROPLANES, SPEED BOATS, FANS, MONORAILS, DYNAMOS, ETC., MANUFACTURERS AND PATENTEES, THE NOMIE ENGINE COMPANY, (LTD), FACTORY AND OFFICE, 52ND AVENUE AND 22ND STREET, AVIATION FIELD: CICERO, ILL., U.S.A., MEMBERS OF THE AERO CLUB OF ILLINOIS, COPYRIGHT, 1912 BY NOMIE ENGINE CO, CICERO, ILLINOIS.," 1912 [Tucked inside are two three-views of t...

   Record Type: Archives

   
8. Catalog - 1912

   Catalog, on cover: "PRICE 5 CENTS, "IDEAL" MODEL AEROPLANE SUPPLIES, 1912, Ideal Aeroplane & Supply Co., 82-86 West Broadway - at Warren and Chambers Sts. - NEW YORK CITY, COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY IDEAL AEROPLANE AND SUPPLY CO., NEW YORK," 1912 [Tucked inside catalog is loose envelope]

   Record Type: Archives

   
9. Certificate, Membership - 1912

   Membership certificate, on certificate, "INTERNATIONAL GORDON BENNETT RACE, UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AERO CLUB OF AMERICA AND THE AERO CLUB OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO 1912", diagram and numbers on back of certificate

   Record Type: Archives

   
10. Lantern slide - 1911-1912 Circa

    Lantern slide, outdoors, four youths standing in grass, all holding rubber-powered A-frame twin pusher model airplanes. Label on slide torn off, can read "… plane - 1912". Written on page 47 of Percy Pierce scrapbook (A2008.19.01) under very similar image of same youths wearing same clothing, "WAWAYANDA BOYS - 1911"

    Record Type: Archives

    
11. Lantern slide - 1912

    Lantern slide, indoors, 7 boys working on model airplanes at long table, 1912. A wing has "PERCY PIERCE RACER 81" clearly written on it. We think this is in Percy Pierce's attic workshop. We believe Percy Pierce is in the foreground. Label on slide reads "Aeroplane Models - 1912".

    Record Type: Archives

    
12. Medal, Prize - Member, Aero Club of Illinois

    Medal worn by members of the Aero Club of Illinois, possibly for participating or attending the Gordon Bennett Trophy events in 1912. The medal shows a metal plate reading, "Member The Aero Club of Illinois" with the ACI pennant logo. This is attached to a red ribbon with gold text reading, "1912 Aviation Events, Chicago." In front of this, hanging from the above plate, is a second metal plate showing the Gordon Bennett trophy and the text "Ch...

    Record Type: Object

    
13. Print, Photographic - 1912-1913 Circa

    Print, photographic, black and white, outdoors, rubber-powered biplane model airplane in flight, labeled "Pierce Inclosed [sic] Biplane Model in flight. Best distance about 900 feet." Circa 1912-1913 Written on page 103 of Percy Pierce scrapbook (A2008.19.01) under this image, "BIPLANE, ENCLOSED FUSELAGE MODEL IN FLIGHT". On page with 1912-1913 images.

    Record Type: Archives

    
14. Print, Photographic - 1912 August 17

    Matted photographic print, written on back of print, "New York Model Aero Club, August 17th, 1912 Top Row from left to right, 1. - 2. Edward Durant, 3. - 4. Percy Pierce 5. - 6. Geo A. Page, Jr. 7. Harold Billings 8. Harry Alder 9. Russell Holderman 10. - 11. - Bottom Row from left to right 1. Norman McQueen 2. George Miller 3. John Roche 4. Ralph Barnaby 5. - 6. Charles L. Ragot 7. - "

    Record Type: Archives

    
15. Print, Photographic - 1912 Circa

    Print, photographic, black and white, matted, indoors, Percy Pierce with his rubber-powered A-frame twin pusher model aircraft "Percy Pierce Racer No. 71", circa 1912 On page 76 of Percy Pierce scrapbook (A2008.19.01) with clipping of this image, written above photo, "ADVERTISEMENT IN THE BOY SCOUTS REVIEW AND AERONAUTICAL BULLETIN, JUNE, 1912", and with photo, "Get the World's Best Flyer, PERCY PIERCE RACERS, Official Distance, 1814 1/2 Feet ...

    Record Type: Archives

    
16. Print, Photographic - 1912 February 22

    Print, photographic, black and white, matted, indoors, Percy Pierce Racer No. 71, labeled "Percy Pierce Racer No. 71, sister of which holds the American Records for distance of 1,814 1/2 feet and duration 61 2/5 second. Taken Feb. 22, 1912."

    Record Type: Archives

    
17. Print, Photographic - 1912 February 22

    Print, photographic, black and white, matted, indoors, Percy Pierce Racer No. 71, labeled "Percy Pierce Racer No. 71 A very close, clear view showing every part in detail. Taken Feb. 22 1912."

    Record Type: Archives

    
18. Print, Photographic - 1912 June 1

    Matted photographic print, written on back of print, "First Annual Model Aeroplane Meet of the Elizabeth Aeronautical Society, Elizabeth, NJ, June 1st, 1912, Flyers: Top Row from left to right 1. Robert Axt, Newark, NJ 2. Edward Ten Eyck, Elizabeth, NJ 3. George Tubbs, Elizabeth, NJ 4. Wallace Lauder, Summit, NJ 5. William Bonnell, Elizabeth, NJ 6. W. Walden Fountain, Elizabeth, NJ 7. George A. Page, Jr., Hillsdale, NJ 8 Charles Kinsman, Elizabet...

    Record Type: Archives

    
19. Print, Photographic - 1912 May

    Print, photographic, black and white, outdoors, rubber-powered A-frame twin pusher model airplane over body of water, building in background, labeled "Pierce Hydro No. 6 In full flight over Gloucester Creek, N.J. Note the trail left in the water. May, 1912"

    Record Type: Archives

    
20. Print, Photographic - 1912 October

    Print, photographic, black and white, outdoors, 3 rubber-powered twin pusher model airplanes in flight, trees in background, labeled "Three Model Aeroplanes in flight. Monoplanes at the right and left, Biplane in the middle. October, 1912"

    Record Type: Archives