Family History Research @ the AHC

Posted on May 30, 2012 by ahcadmin

Archivists working in the Reference Department of the American Heritage Center are often asked about resources that can help genealogists track their family’s history.  Sometimes that’s an easy question–we might actually have the personal family papers of that researcher’s forebears.  What a gold mine for that lucky researcher!

But in other cases, research materials can be harder to find.  Should you be interested in conducting genealogical research here at the AHC, we’ve created a brief list of starting points which may help you in your search.

University of Wyoming Yearbook, 1922. These are members of the class of 1923, with their activities and involvement in campus life listed.

University of Wyoming Yearbooks (located within the Ralph McWhinnie papers) are wonderful resources if you know (or even suspect) that your relative attended the University.  You’ll learn about the types of activities in which they were involved, which in turn, may give you more clues about where else you might look, such as UW departmental records or photographic files.

Scrapbooks might be a possible resource, particularly if your relative was a prominent athlete or otherwise well-known on the University of Wyoming campus.  Since scrapbooks are often assembled topically, it can be hard to know what they contain.  Working with an archivist may help you to uncover these resources, so don’t hesitate to let us know if we can help.

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hall (wedding portrait), 1919. Ludwig Svenson Collection, Negative Number 5914, American Heritage Center Collections.

Ludwig-Svenson Photograph Collection contains much documentation of everyday life and events in Laramie. For many years, the Ludwig-Svenson Studio was THE place to have your photograph taken. The collection covers the years 1868-1985, but most photographs are from the years 1913 until 1967.  If a major life event occurred–a marriage, a confirmation, a graduation–Ludwig-Svenson Studio probably documented it on film.  If you are interested in viewing a photo from this collection, do allow us a day to retrieve it from cold storage.  Since these are negatives, we need to let the film gradually warm up to room temperature.

We also have Biography and Photo Files,  old-fashioned card catalogs which help us find cross-references to your relative or other materials that might not be including in our online catalog.  Generally, biography files contain secondary sources such as newspaper stories, UW alumni notes, and obituaries.  These materials might help to confirm a fact or two, or may give you some additional pieces of information.   The Photo Files might provide a reference to one of our archival collections, or they might list an individual file under your relative’s name.

And then of course, there are more generalized resources to which we can direct you.  Most public libraries subscribe to databases such as Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest where you’ll find census data and other information of public record, such as death certificates and marriage licenses.  If you don’t have access to these subscription databases, you’ll find similar information at the free FamilySearch.org, a database managed and administered by the LDS Church. You might also be interested in using some city directories to find out when your relatives may have lived at a certain address.  Many of the older directories will list the individual’s occupation and their spouse.  The UW Libraries Special Collections’ Hebard Collection (located on the third floor of Coe Library in the Chisum Reading Room) has a good selection of city directories for Laramie and wider Albany county, as well as some other areas of Wyoming.

You might also want to try the Wyoming Newspaper Project, a searchable, browsable database of Wyoming newspapers. Though not all newspapers are available for every date, this resource can provide you with access to a great many pages of newsprint–previously available only on microfilm or in crumbling bound volumes.  Who knows, some of these newspapers might even provide some of the missing details for your search! Last, but not least, the two additional organizations that may be useful in your research are the Wyoming State Historical Society and the Albany County Historical Society.

As always, the Reference Department at the AHC will be happy to assist you in your search.  Just send us a request!

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In the Words of Poets: A Journey through AHC’s Lyrical Archives

Posted on April 26, 2012 by ahcadmin

The American Heritage Center has among its holdings a number of literary figures–authors, journalists, as well as poets. We’d like to share with you some of the lyrical offerings to be found among our collections.

Harriet Kofalk papers, Box 3, Folder 1. American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Harriet Kofalk is one of the poets represented in the collections of the AHC. Kofalk lived in New Mexico and California and was active in the peace movement in both states. She contributed peace and nature-themed poems to local publications and self-published several volumes of haiku. Not a poet by profession, Kofalk was a historical researcher and also worked for RAND Corporation for many years. Her other authorial interests included cookbooks–she compiled recipe books for apples, poultry (You’re in a Fowl Mood: Poultry Recipes), and even solar cooking.

From her 1987 book Rainbow: A Collection of Haiku, here are two examples of her work.

Wriggling between cars

the snake escapes again

across the hot road

And

Pollen in the web

spider and honeysuckle

both wanting insects

Peggy Simson Curry, Wyoming’s first Poet Laureate and on the rolls of the Western Writers Hall of Fame, is also represented among the literary collections in the AHC’s holdings. Born in Scotland, Curry emigrated to the U.S. as a young girl and settled with her parents in North Park, Colorado. After her marriage, she and her husband moved to Casper where Peggy lived until the end of her life in 1987.

Here is the poem, Lupine Ridge, by Peggy Simpson Curry:

Long after we are gone,

Summer will stroke this ridge in blue;

The hawk still flies above the flowers,

Thinking, perhaps, the sky has fallen

And back and forth forever he may trace

His shadow on its azure face.

 

Long after we are gone,

Evening wind will languish here

Between the lupine and the sage

To die a little death upon the earth,

As though over the sundown prairies fell

A requiem from a bronze-tongued bell.

 

Long after we are gone,

This ridge will shape the night,

Lifting the wine-streaked west,

Shouldering the stars.  And always here

Lovers will walk under the summer skies

Through flowers the color of your eyes.

Though famous for her poetry, Curry was also an acclaimed novelist. The AHC has several of her prose manuscripts and we’ve included the first page of her original manuscript for her book, The Oil Patch, a 1959 novel that depicts the life and tensions of a community out in the oil fields of 1936 Wyoming through the perspective of a young, newly married couple.

First page of Peggy Simson Curry’s manuscript for her book, “The Oil Patch.” Peggy Simson Curry papers, Box 1, Folder 1. American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

 

These poets, with their distinct styles, invite us to appreciate the simplicity of a haiku and the profoundness of Wyoming’s landscapes. As we explore their collections, we not only discover the beauty of their words but also gain insights into their worlds. From Kofalk’s peace-themed poems to Curry’s poignant reflections on life in Wyoming, the archives offer a direct connection to the essence of these literary figures. In these verses and prose, we find a timeless celebration of human experiences and the enduring magic of written expression.

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Sky High in Wyoming

Posted on April 13, 2012 by ahcadmin

Mildred Capron

Photo of Mildred Capron, from her biographical materials, Box 1, Folder 1.

In a press release written to accompany the release of her film, Sky High in Wyoming, the documentary filmmaker Mildred Capron (whose papers reside at the American Heritage Center) states:

An easterner by birth and background, 14 years in China followed by 15 years’ residence in Wyoming, Mildred Capron calls Wyoming home and the adoption has been mutual… great lover of animals she likes the open spaces “where there is room for the spirit.”
 
Miss Capron does not glamorize the west, but shows it as it is, exciting and beautiful, its business and its pleasures, its blizzards and its ruggedness, as only a person with long residence there can do. SKY HIGH reflects the same keen awareness, the sympathetic and entertaining observations and the patience for magnificent wild-life shots that bring a rich experience to her audiences.

Press Release about Sky High in Wyoming

Press Release from Mildred Capron about her film, Sky High in Wyoming

In SKY HIGH you will see: A wild horse roundup… Arapaho Sun Dance ceremonial… The Wolf Dance… THE OREGON TRAIL – South Pass City, a ghost of gold-rush days… Split Rock… Fort Laramie… Devil’s Tower… Mysterious Medicine Wheel in the Big Horns… Petroglyphs trying to tell the story of prehistoric man… Dinosaurs… Historic background.

A pack trip into the Wilderness area of the Wind River Mountains… California Golden Trout such as fishermen dream about…  wild flowers: wild columbine, fire­weed, scarlet gilia, flax, mimulus, hairbell, paintbrush… ice, and blazing sun, and beauty that makes you gasp. Ranching: Hereford Cattle, for wyoming is cattleland… sheep-shearing time… Arabian horses. And rodeo-time, the cow-boy sport. Farming: putting the holes in Swiss cheese. MINERALS: Wyoming Jade… 0i1… Iron ore… Coal. University of Wyoming… artists… naturalists. The animal kingdom: Prairie dogs… “picket pins”… bear… coyote…  elk… buffalo… moose… antelope… pine-marten, rarely filmed… beaver, extraordinary closeups of the little engineer responsible for the opening of the West… sage grouse… vireo… ducks… geese… avacet… willet… blue heron… Sandhill cranes… trumpeter swans. Scenery that is breath-taking — the whole welded together into a story entertainingly given.

You can enjoy this film in six parts below. To learn more about Mildred Capron or her collection of films and papers at the AHC, you can view the collection inventory online.

–Ben Goldman, Digital Programs Archivist

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Crow Tribal Photographs, Then and Now

Posted on April 12, 2012 by ahcadmin

Event is free and open to the public. 3pm, April 18th at the AHC!

Dan Hayward and Audrey Plenty Hoops delivered two complementary multi-media talks about the Crow, or Aps’aalooke, Indian Nation of southern Montana on April 18, 2012.  Hayward’s presentation, titled Crow Tribal Photographs, Then & Now, introduced his large photographic project of the same title.

Hayward’s main project objectives were to document life on the Crow Reservation in photographs and narratives while also teaching photography to Crow adults and children. He encouraged these photography participants to photograph their friends and families on the reservation in their everyday activities and ultimately combined the Crows’ photographs and his own photographs, with photographs taken of the Crow in the early 1900’s by Richard Throssel.

Throssel mainly photographed life on the Crow Reservation in the early 20th Century and has the distinction of being the first Indian person, or one of two who were the first Indian persons to photograph Indian People in North America. Throssel also lived on the Crow reservation, photographing his neighbors and friends and the people he worked, played and prayed with.

Hayward examined and edited more than 2500 photographs from the Richard Throssel Collection at the American Heritage Center as well as other Throssel collections, and ultimately combined the Throssel, Crow and Hayward photographs into one body of Crow Photographs.

Plenty Hoops is Aps’aalooke and grew up on the reservation. She talked about her Aps’aalooke ancestors, including Pretty Shield who was a prominent medicine woman of the Crow a century ago.

Hayward began his professional photographic career in 1978 in Denver, shooting commercial and fine art photographs for a variety of clients. He has lived and worked in Laramie since 1995 and received his Masters Degree in Communication and Mass Media in 2002.

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Reporting from the Front: Richard Tregaskis, War Correspondent

Posted on April 5, 2012 by ahcadmin

Tregaskis in Ca Mau, 1963. Richard Tregaskis Papers, Box 82, Folder Vietnam – Tregaskis in Vietnam, 1960s-1970s.

Although not members of the armed forces, war correspondents risk their lives on missions to inform the world about what is truly happening in war zones. One such war correspondent was Richard Tregaskis (1916-1973), whose papers are held here at the American Heritage Center. As a correspondent, Tregaskis covered many wars, including WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. He received the International News Service Medal of Honor for Heroic Devotion to Duty (1942-1943), and the Purple Heart (1944). He also traveled the world many times over as a writer for a number of magazines including The Saturday Evening Post, and wrote several screenplays.

At the start of WWII, Tregaskis was assigned to cover the Pacific Fleet operations as a correspondent for the International News Service. As a fleet correspondent, was aboard a cruiser that escorted the Doolittle Raiders and their carrier on the first raid of the Japanese mainland and he covered the Naval battles at the Coral Sea and Midway. He accompanied the operation to Guadalcanal and landed with the Fifth Marine Regiment, the assault wave of the attack, and stayed several months with the forces there. He wrote about this experience in his book Guadalcanal Diary.

He was then transferred to the European theater, where he went into the Salerno landings in Italy with the American 82nd Airborne Division and was seriously wounded by German mortar fire while serving with paratroops and US Rangers near Cassino.

Richard Tregaskis recovering from a head injury received in Italy, 1943. Richard Tregaskis Papers, Box 4, Folder 18.

He was hospitalized for five months, temporarily lost his speech, and had two operations during which a plate was fixed in his skull. After recovery, he joined American and British forces in France just before the breakout from the Normandy Beachhead. He remained with the American Infantry and Armored forces during the sweep through Northern France, Belgium, and into Germany. On the western front, Tregaskis became the first correspondent to fly in a fighter plane during a dogfight with enemy planes.

In 1945, on assignment for the Saturday Evening Post, Tregaskis joined a B-29 crew where he flew from Kansas to Guam, where they were based for assaults on Japan. He flew with the crew on five bombing missions, and was transferred to the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga where he flew with a torpedo bomber squadron in an attack on the Japanese battleship Ise. By the time the war ended, he had flown in 32 combat missions.  Tregaskis then joined the military government staff of General MacArthur’s forces at Manila as a correspondent. He was aboard the USS Missouri for the surrender of the Japanese and flew with MacArthur on the first airlift to Japan.  Tregaskis then covered the Chinese Civil War, and in 1953 he went to Korea to write and direct a documentary film titled “The Faith We Hold,” on the United Nations forces fighting there.

In 1957, Tregaskis first visited Vietnam when he drove a jeep the length of the country from Hue to Saigon.  In 1962, he returned to cover the war in Vietnam and flew 68 assault missions with helicopter-borne Vietnamese troops (flown by Americans). From this experience came Vietnam Diary, which won Tregaskis the CBS George Polk Award for Hazardous Reporting. He returned to Vietnam many times in the late 1960s-early 1970s to cover various stories there.

Tregaskis with Viet Cong POWs after an assault mission. The Viet Cong shot down a U.S. military helicopter. Richard Tregaskis Papers, Box 79, Folder Vietnam – POWs, 1962-1963

Although most known for covering wars, Tregaskis traveled the world many times over reporting on a variety of issues and topics. In 1946, he started a 45,000 mile trip on assignment for True Magazine. It was during this time that he covered the Chinese Civil War, at a time when the war between the Nationalists and the Communists was reaching its climax. This trip also took him to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Java, Bali, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Iraq, and Egypt. He also spent time in Australia writing about American migrants who had gone there to settle, and stayed with families in England, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Sweden. In 1955, he went on assignments to Japan, Hawaii, Germany, England, Hong Kong, Okinawa, and the Philippines along with his 2nd wife, Walton, who was now his photographer. In 1963-1964, He completed another ‘round-the-world trip with his 3rd wife, Moana (also a photographer), while on assignment for a number of magazines.

Tregaskis was also interested in air transport and the space program. In 1957, Tregaskis flew on the first flight of America’s first transcontinental jet transport, the Boeing 707. In 1959, he made the inaugural Qantas flight to Australia, and he flew to Tahiti in 1960 on the inaugural flight of the French airline TAI. In 1961, he wrote X-15 Diary about the work of the pilots, scientists, engineers, Air Force, and NASA pioneers in the space world as they developed and flew the X-15 rocket ship, the first space craft.

Tregaskis’ career ended tragically with his death in 1973; Tregaskis was swimming along the Hawaiian coast in August, 1973 when he drowned.

The Richard Tregaskis papers at the American Heritage Center are full of interesting material. Aside from both published and draft versions of his books and articles, the collection contains a large number of Tregaskis’s diaries and notebooks that he used on his travels and assignments to record his observations and research, including his time in Italy and France during WWII and his various trips to Vietnam. The collection also contains many wonderful photographs from his travels and assignments during WWII, Vietnam, China, Korea, and all around the world. Everyone should be able to find something to interest them in the papers of this fascinating individual.

To see examples of Tregaskis’s wartime photography, explore our Virmuze exhibit “Souvenirs of War,” which features images from his Vietnam assignments alongside other war photography. Everyone should be able to find something to interest them in the papers of this fascinating individual.

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On My Honor I Will Try … The Girl Scouts of Wyoming

Posted on March 27, 2012 by ahcadmin

Founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low, the Girl Scouts of the United States of America began as a means to provide young girls with a social environment outside of the confines of home and family. According to its mission statement, the organization “builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.”

The American Heritage Center holds the Girl Scout Council of Wyoming records among its collections. Take a look at some of these Girl Scouts of years past.  Whether you yourself were a Brownie, Daisy, or moved on to more senior levels of Girl Scouting–or perhaps you just look forward to Girl Scout cookie season, this sampling from the collection will provide you with a glimpse into Girl Scout activities in the Wyoming of the 1960s.

Sheridan Day Camp, 1960. Scouts demonstrating blue printing technique with leaves. Girl Scouts of Wyoming Records, Box 6. “1960.” American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Girl Scout Troop 274’s Scrapbook. Girl Scouts of Wyoming records, Box 11. American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Celebrating Girl Scout Week in Worland, WY, 1965. Girls dress in international garb. Girl Scouts of Wyoming records, Box 6. American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Roger Q. Williams, American Aviation Pioneer

Posted on March 23, 2012 by ahcadmin

Roger Williams with his plane. Roger Williams papers, Box 14, “Roger Q. Williams, ca 1917-1964 and undated.”

A finding aid for the previously unprocessed Roger Q. Williams papers has been created. Williams (1894-1976) was an early aviator and barnstormer of the 20thcentury. He is perhaps best known for his flight with Lewis Yancey from Old Orchard Beach, Maine to Rome, Italy (the flight included a short stop in Santander, Spain for parts).

Williams and Lewis Yancey after their flight to Rome in 1929. Roger Q. Williams papers, Box 14. “Roger Q. Williams, ca. 1917-1964, undated.” American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

It broke the previously held over-water nonstop flight record. He served as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II and later established his own flight school, the Roger Q. Williams School of Aeronautics. Williams took time to write of his experiences as an aviator in a weekly syndicated column, “Up Currents,” and a book, To the Moon and Halfway Back.

Thea Rasche (triangle sweater) with Francis Harrell (at right), female stunt pilots, 1927. Roger Q. Williams papers, Box 14, “Thea Rasche” folder. American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

The Roger Q. Williams papers document the career of Williams but also contain a wide selection of photographs that are much like a who’s who in aviation from the 1920s to the 1940s. Additionally, historical aviation and geographic photographs collected throughout his career are present in the collection.

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A Red Carpet Collection

Posted on March 1, 2012 by ahcadmin

Photograph of Barbara Stanwyck, June 14, 1931. University of Wyoming American Heritage Center, Photo File: Stanwyck, Barbara.

Those of you who watch the Oscars  might have found yourselves wondering what it is like to hold the most coveted award in Hollywood. Well readers, question no longer!

The AHC is pleased to count, among the many informative and interesting items it holds, an Oscar award in the Barbara Stanwyck papers. The Oscar was presented to Stanwyck in 1982 “for superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting.” The remainder of the collection contains scripts from projects Stanwyck was involved with, scrapbooks, printed materials, and other materials chronicling Stanwyck’s career.

The Stanwyck papers are an example of the exciting popular culture collections available for research at the AHC. You can also find the papers of William Dozier, the producer of the 1960s Batman television series, Jack Benny, a TV, film, and radio performer, and Stan Lee, the creator of Spiderman, Iron Man, and other Marvel comics superheroes, among others.

The AHC’s popular culture holdings are studied by scholars from around the world and are an important research resource for people ranging from academics to hobbyists.

When researchers come across the statuette, some of them imagine wearing their best, hold the Barbara Stanwyck Oscar in their hands, and imagine the camera flashes going off during their big moment.

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Black History Month Highlight: Elizabeth Byrd, Wyoming Politician

Posted on February 16, 2012 by ahcadmin

Elizabeth Byrd teaching in Cheyenne, WY. September 1967, American Heritage Center, Harriett E. Byrd Collection, Coll. #10443, Neg# 29475.

We continue our celebration of Black History Month by drawing much-deserved attention to Elizabeth Byrd.  She was another Wyoming “First,” in that she was the first African-American to serve in the Wyoming House of Representatives, as well as in the Wyoming Senate.

A Wyoming native, Byrd was born in Cheyenne in 1926.  She attended and was graduated from Cheyenne High School in 1944.  She enrolled in West Virginia State College, which is a “historically black college” and was at the time one of the most prestigious institutions in the U.S. for students of color.   Elizabeth Byrd graduated and sought work back home in Wyoming.  She found a position at the Fort F.E. Warren Air Force Base and taught elementary school there for decades.  In 1976, Byrd enrolled in a Master’s program for elementary education at the University of Wyoming.  Her professional life took a different course with her first bid for political office.

Elizabeth Byrd with Gov. Mike Sullivan signing Martin Luther King Jr. Day legislation, March, 1990. Elizabeth Harriett Byrd Papers, Accession Number 10443, Box 3, Folder 6

She ran for a seat in the House in 1980 on a Democratic ticket and served two consecutive terms before running for state Senate in 1988. She won that race as well.  Her years in elected office are most know for her successful efforts to persuade the state of Wyoming to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a holiday.   In Wyoming, the third Monday of January is known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day/Wyoming Equality Day.

The American Heritage Center holds the papers of Elizabeth Byrd among its collections.  If you’d like to look at the inventory for this collection, you can view it online.

Also, check out our “In Pursuit of Equality” virtual exhibit which addresses the influence of Wyoming women on effecting change and equality in the state.  Each of the three women–Nellie Tayloe Ross, Thyra Thomson, and Elizabeth Byrd–profiled in the exhibit employed political participation in elected office to further the cause of equality for Wyoming residents.

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Come Fly Away: Trans World Airlines Records

Posted on February 8, 2012 by ahcadmin

1929 TWA Luxury Liner, built by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Now that’s flying in style! TWA Records, Box 178.  American Heritage Center.

Trans World Airlines was a major airline in the 20th century. It existed from 1925-2001, after which it merged with American Airlines. It was originally named Transcontinental & Western Air (T&WA) because of the merger between Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) and Western Air Express in 1930. It was the main U.S.-based competitor of Pan American Airlines and one of the first airlines to offer exclusively air-based coast-to-coast service, called the Lindbergh Line, from the advice the airline received from Charles Lindbergh. Because of the high profile advisers at T&WA, it was called “The Airline Run by Flyers.”

A TWA flight soars over the San Francisco Bay area, 1929. TWA Records, Box 178. American Heritage Center.

In 1938 Howard Hughes, business magnate, bought 25% of the airline and went on to control 78% of the airline by 1941. The airline prospered during WWII due to its business from Army flights. It was also during this period that Hughes’s leadership led the airline to become known for cutting-edge technology in the field of commercial aviation. In 1950 the airline officially changed its name to Trans World Airlines and became known as the “Airline to the Stars” because of its famous clientele. TWA was the first airline to hire an African American flight attendant and the first to show in-flight movies, starting in 1961.

More recently, TWA began to suffer from a series of misfortunes. On June 14, 1985, TWA Flight 847 was hijacked by Lebanese Shia extremists, later identified as members of Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. In 1995 the airline declared bankruptcy and began to suffer troubles due to its aging fleet. On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded on a flight over the Atlantic Ocean near Long Island, killing all 230 people on board. While initial speculation was of a terrorist attack, the final National Transportation Safety Board report concluded that the cause was the ignition of fuel vapors probably caused by an electrical short circuit.  Finally, TWA merged with American Airlines in 2001 after declaring bankruptcy for the third time.

A TWA plane catching the light just so. TWA Records, Box 178. American Heritage Center.

The records within this collection mainly encompass the engineering, maintenance, and technical tasks of the company from 1944-1970. There are many reports from vendors such as Lockheed, British Aircraft Corporation, General Electric, and Boeing. Blueprints and technical drawings are also present. The collection provides a fascinating view of how an airline was maintained in the mid-20th century.

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