Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio) Search this
Extent:
733.77 Cubic feet (1508 document boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Correspondence
Publications
Reports
Photographs
Date:
1915-1955
Summary:
Throughout its history the Engineering Division/Materiel Division at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, maintained a catalogued library of technical documents, which was turned over to the Air Force Museum and later donated to the National Air and Space Museum. The collection consists of reports and other documents on a variety of aviation-related topics, including general science (aeronautics, physics, chemistry, etc); military air service personnel, organization, and equipment for both US and foreign air forces; as well as operations, and so on. Currently, the finding aid only covers documents from the D52.1 subject code (Airplanes, arranged alphabetically) and only those that are physically located in the Wright Field Technical Documents Library.
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of reports and other documents on a variety of aviation-related topics, including general science (aeronautics, physics, chemistry, etc); military air service personnel, organization, and equipment for both US and foreign air forces; as well as operations, and so on. Information on foreign services and equipment is usually from military intelligence reports, although some foreign documents or translations are included. The material also includes a large section of test reports from the Material Division itself.
Arrangement:
Every document in the collection has been assigned a multi-part Wright Field Number. This number is adapted from the Air Force central decimal correspondence filing system. Wright Field Numbers are written in the format:
• Subject Code: This number begins with an alpha-numeric subject code. For example, D52.1 (Airplanes, arranged alphabetically).
• Category Suffix: A more specific textual subject reference. For example, in the D52.1 subjects, the suffix is usually a manufacturer name, aircraft name, or a general type of aircraft. (Original Wright Field cataloguers could be inconsistent in how they classified an airplane. For example, a document on a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M could be filed alphabetically under A6M, Mitsubishi, Zeke, Zero, or Misc. Japanese.) It is possible to not have a category suffix.
• Sequence Number: The individual number assigned to the document within its subject code and category. If a document was formerly classified as "Security Information," the sequence number starts with "S," for example "S-1." These are usually filed at the beginning of a range of documents. Sometimes technical manuals are filed using the technical order (TO) number. For example, 01-20EE-3 is the sequence number used for a Boeing B-17 Handbook of Overhaul Instructions, TO-01-20EE-3.
• Sequence Modifier: If there is a revision or multiple parts of a document, this is reflected in a sequence modifier. Ex. Dates, revision numbers, etc.
The documents are arranged alpha-numerically by Wright Field Number in the order of:
Each record contains the title and source from the index cards. Information from the subject field on the cards appears as a scope and content note.
Currently, the finding aid only covers documents from the D52.1 subject code and only those that are physically located in the Wright Field Technical Documents Library. Please contact the NASM Archives regarding additional documents. Some may be located in the Technical Reference Files, cataloguing information may be only on the index cards, or the document has been catalogued as missing from the collection.
Biographical / Historical:
In 1917, the United States Army Air Service established an aviation engineering section at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio. In 1927, the Engineering Division, as it was then known, moved to nearby Wilbur Wright Field and remained there as the Air Force Materiel Division (AFMD) and Air Materiel Command (AMC) until Wright Field combined with Patterson Field to become Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1948. The Engineering Division was responsible for Army Air Services research and development and served as a clearinghouse for information on aviation development worldwide. Throughout its history the Engineering Division/Materiel Division maintained a catalogued library of documents, which was turned over to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson and was later donated to the National Air and Space Museum.
Provenance:
United States Air Force Museum, Transfer, 1962, NASM.XXXX.0428.
Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
The collection documents the work of Dolores Valdes-Zacky and her advertising firm Valdes-Zacky Associates, who specialize in the Hispanic consumer market.
Scope and Contents:
The collection includes guidebooks on marketing to Hispanics; business records; letters and emails; photographs; an award; case studies; ad campaign proposals; story boards; press releases; print advertisements for the agency and for its clients, as well as for products; a DVD of commercials; newsletters; magazine and newspaper articles. Some items in the collection relate to Valdes Zacky's work with the J. Walter Thompson firm.
Arrangement:
The collection is divided into two series.
Series 1: Background Materials, 1955-1999
Series 2: Advertising and Marketing Materials, 1989-1999
Biographical / Historical:
Dolores Valdes-Zacky started her career in advertising with the J. Walter Thompson agency. She left to start her own firm, Valdes-Zacky Associates in 1987, specializing in tapping the Hispanic consumer market. Some of the agency's clients have been Mitsubishi Motors, Adolph Coors Company, Arrowhead Puritas Waters, Vons Grocery, and the Partnership for a Drug Free America.
Provenance:
Collection donated by Dolores Valdes Zacky, 2016.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Jaime Davidovich papers, 1949-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing and digitization of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center. Additional funding for the digitization of the papers was provided by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.
"Characteristics of ship-borne aircraft and aircraft types [Specifications and complements for aircraft carriers, seaplane tenders, combatant vessels]." Source: ONI Washington 44
Collection Creator:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio) Search this
Container:
Box D690, Folder D52.1 Misc Japanese / 50
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
22 Apr 1942
Scope and Contents:
Airplanes - Japanese; Office of Naval Intelligence - Washington - 1942 - 42; [Aircraft Carriers - Japanese]; [Airplanes - Mitsubishi Type 0]; [Airplanes - Kawasaki Type 98]; [Airplanes - Nakajima Type 97]; [Airplanes - Mitsubishi Type 96]; [Airplanes - Aichi Type 99]; [AIrplanes - Aichi Type 97]; [Airplanes - Nakajima Type 97 Mk 3]; [Airplanes - Mitsubishi Type 97 Mk 2]; [Seeaplanes - Nakajima Type 97 Mk 1]; [Airplanes - Nakjima Type 95]; [Seaplanes - Kawahishi Type 94 Mod]; [Seaplane Tenders - Japanese]; [; Office of Naval Intelligence - Washington - 1942 - 49
Collection Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Collection Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
"Information taken from a Japanese airplane." Source: Censored letter
Collection Creator:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio) Search this
Container:
Box D690, Folder D52.1 Misc Japanese / 52
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
19 Jan 1942
Scope and Contents:
Airplanes - Japanese; [Aircraft Carriers - Japanese]; [Airplanes - Mitsubishi Type 0]; [Airplanes - Kawasaki Type 98]; [Airplanes - Nakajima Type 97]; [Airplanes - Mitsubishi Type 96]; [Airplanes - Aichi Type 99]; [AIrplanes - Aichi Type 97]; [Airplanes - Nakajima Type 97 Mk 3]; [Airplanes - Mitsubishi Type 97 Mk 2]; [Seeaplanes - Nakajima Type 97 Mk 1]; [Airplanes - Nakjima Type 95]; [Seaplanes - Kawahishi Type 94 Mod]; [Seaplane Tenders - Japanese]; [;
Collection Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Collection Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
"Metallurgical examination of airframe section from Mitsubishi 0 Zaka 11; Aichi 99, Val 11; Kawasaki 99, Lily 2; and Mitsubishi 100, Dinah 2 airplanes." Source: Office of Scientific Research and Development. Report #4179. National Defense Research Comm...
Collection Creator:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio) Search this
Container:
Box D690, Folder D52.1 Misc Japanese / 116
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
25 Sep 1944
Scope and Contents:
Airplanes - Japanese; Office of Scientific Research and Development - Report #4179; Airplanes - Mitsubishi 0 - Fuselage; Airplanes - Aichi 99 - Fuselage; Airplanes - Kawasaki 99 - Fuselage; Airplanes - Mitsubishi 100 - Fuselage;
Collection Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Collection Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
"Comparative performance trials between a Supermarine Seafire L II C a Mitsubishi 0 SS F Zeke." Source: Great Britain naval Staff Admiralty
Collection Creator:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio) Search this
Container:
Box D679, Folder D52.1 Misc / S-4
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
Jan 1945
Scope and Contents:
Airplanes - Supermarine Seafire; Airplanes - Mitsubishi 0 SS F
Collection Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Collection Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
"Performance charts on bombing, observation and pursuit airplanes in France, England, Italy, Japan, and the United States. cat." Source: Technical Data Section. Wright Field
Collection Creator:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio) Search this
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
"Performances for comparison on United States and foreign bombing, observation, and pursuit airplanes." Source: technical data Branch. Wright Field
Collection Creator:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Ohio) Search this
Container:
Box D681, Folder D52.1 Misc / 176
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
3 Jun 1935
Scope and Contents:
Airplanes - Bombers; Airplanes - Observation; Airplanes - Pursuit; [Airplanes - YB 10]; [Airplanes - B 10 B]; [Airplanes - YB 12]; [Airplanes - Yb 12 A]; [Airplanes - Fairey Gordon]; [Airplanes - Handley-Page HP 50]; [Airplanes - Hawker Hart]; [Airplanes - Vickers Vanox]; [Airplanes - Amiot 143]; [Airplanes - Bloch 200]; [Airplanes - Breguet 41 M4]; [Airplanes - Breguet 460 M5]; [Airplanes - Breda 46]; [Airplanes - Caproni CA 111]; [Airplanes - Fiat BR 3]; [Seaplanes - Savoia S 55 X]; [Airplanes - Heinkel He 70 X]; [Airplanes - Mitsubishi 33]; [Airplanes - O 38 E]; [Airplanes - O 39]; [Airplanes - O 43 A]; [Airplanes - XO 46]; [Airplanes - Blackburn Ripon]; [Airplanes - Fairey III F]; [Airplanes - Hawker Audax]; [Airplanes - Westland Wallace]; [Airplanes - Breguet 27 A2]; [Airplanes - Mureaux 113]; [Airplanes - Potez 25 A2]; [Airplanes - Potez 39 A2]; [Airplanes - Caproni CA 97]; [Airplanes - Fiat Cr 120]; [Airplanes - Macchi MC 79]; [Airplanes - Romeo RO 37]; [Airplanes - Kawasaki 88]; [Airplanes - P 26 A]; [Airplanes - PB 2]; [Airplanes - XF 13 C1]; [Airplanes - Armstrong Whitworth Scimitar]; [Airplanes - Hawker Fury]; [Airplanes - Hawker Osprey]; [Airplanes - Avia 534]; [Airplanes - DeWoitine D 500]; [Airplanes - Liore 46]; [Airplanes - Morane Saulnier 275 C1]; [Airplanes - Breda 27]; [Airplanes - Fiat CR 32]; [Airplanes - Macchi M 41bis]; [Airplanes - Kawasaki C5]; [Airplanes - United States Bomber]; [Airplanes - United States Observation]; [Airplanes - United States - Pursuit]; [Airplanes - British Bomber]; [Airplanes - British Observation]; [Airplanes - British Pursuit]; [Airplanes - French - Bomber]; [Airplanes - French Observation]; [Airplanes - French Pursuit]; [Airplanes - Italian - Bomber]; [Airplanes - Italian Observation]; [Airplanes - Italian Pursuit]; [Airplanes - Japanese Bomber]; [Airplanes - Japanese Observation]; [Airplanes - Japanese Bomber]; [Airplanes - Japanese Pursuit]
Collection Restrictions:
No restrictions on access
Collection Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
Rumpf, Friedrich Karl Georg, 1888-1949 Search this
Extent:
3 Notebooks (3 notebooks and loose notes. Notebooks are very worn and many pages are likely not in their original order. Notebook 3 is without covers)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Notebooks
Place:
Japan
Berlin (Germany)
Date:
circa 1914-1930s
Scope and Contents:
Three undated notebooks by artist and educator Friedrich Karl Georg (Fritz) Rumpf (1888-1949). With multiple notes in German and Japanese, and drawings in pencil, ink and wash made during his travels and research in Japan. The notebooks also contain many loose paper scraps and letters, including a draft letter addressed to Felix Tikotin.
Arrangement:
in a box
Biographical / Historical:
Friedrich (Fritz) Karl Georg Rumpf the Younger was the son of the Potsdam painter Fritz Rumpf (1856-1927). He grew up in Potsdam and at 15 studied Japanese from a Japanese officer who attended the military school in Potsdam. After graduating from middle school, he studied at the Royal School of Arts in Berlin. He moved to Japan in 1908, where he studied woodblock printing under Igami Bonkotsu (1875-1933) and was active in the literary society "Pan no Kai." From 1910 he continued his studies in Berlin under the artist Emil Orlik. At the beginning of World War I he was sent to China as a military officer and was taken prisoner following the surrender of Qingdao to the Japanese in 1914. He was a prisoner of war in Oita and Narashino until 1920. In 1931 under Asian art historian Otto Kümmel, he produced a dissertation on the Ise monogatari woodblock print edition of 1608. Rumpf traveled extensively in Japan throughout his career. In 1927-1928 he accompanied the art collector Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) in Japan.
Local Numbers:
FSA A2015.22
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Genre/Form:
Notebooks
Citation:
Fritz Rumpf Notebooks, FSA A2015.22. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Identifier:
FSA.A2015.22
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
Mitsubishi Ki-2 Louise (Loise) (Type 93 Twin-Engine Light Bomber) Family [Documents]
Collection Creator:
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
Mitsubishi Ki-15 Babs Family (Type 97 Command Recon Aircraft) [Documents]
Collection Creator:
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
